Healthy Homes in New Zealand: Why High-Performance Design Matters

New Zealand homeowners are increasingly looking beyond minimum Building Code compliance and asking for homes that are warmer, healthier, more comfortable and less expensive to run. High-performance architecture combines passive solar design, insulation, airtightness, ventilation and moisture control to create homes that work better in every season.

If you are planning to build a new home in Nelson, Tasman, Richmond, Motueka or the wider New Zealand market, you may have noticed a growing interest in healthy, energy-efficient and high-performance homes.

For many years, New Zealand houses were designed primarily to meet the minimum requirements of the Building Code.

Today, homeowners are asking a more important question:

How can I build a home that is warmer, healthier, cheaper to run and still performs well decades from now?

The answer begins with thoughtful, site-specific architectural design.

A well-designed ...