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IN BRIEF
New Chair for NZGBC
Mary-Jane Daly has been elected as Chair of the New Zealand Green Building Council, replacing outgoing Chair Tim Hooson of Jasmax. She joined the NZGBC Board in 2011 and has a strong background in nance and banking in a variety of roles in New Zealand and the UK.
Online LBP forms
Licensed building practitioners (LBPs) who hold one or more licence class can now complete Record of Work (RoW) and Certificate of Work (CoW) forms online. Using them can save practitioners time, and there is the advantage of better accuracy as the information is keyed in, not hand written.
For more Visit www.business.govt.nz/lbp/im-an-lbp/ skills-maintenance
Homes will require sea legs
Auckland property developers Fairway Bay have received consent to build the Boat Sheds project, 20 floating houses on Gulf Harbour. The houses will stand on docked buoyant platforms and be connected to the grid with water and electrical services. They will be small, spanning only 35 m2, and include a kitchen, living space, laundry, mezzanine and bedroom loft.
QuakeCoRE launches
The new Centre of Research Excellence on Earthquake Resilience (CoRE) gets underway in 2016, with funding for the Centre available from 1 January. The Centre will be researching how to improve our resilience to earthquakes.
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Cathedral repair comes down to cost
The future of Christ Church Cathedral is still not clear following the release of a report reviewing engineering options for repairing the building. While viable, its reinstatement will require a combination of repair, restoration and reconstruction. ‘The issue then comes back to cost,’ says Gerry Brownlee, Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery.
News
COP21 commitment
Green Building Councils from around the globe signed up to reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the recent climate conference in Paris.
MORE THAN 1.25 BILLION M2 OF BUILDINGS – almost double the size of Singapore – will be registered, renovated or certi ed as green building space over the next 5 years. This is under ambitious commitments made by Green Building Councils at COP21 in Paris.
Green Building Councils unveiled national commitments to transform building sustainability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ensure that the construction industry plays a part in keeping warming to 2°C.
Buildings currently account for around one-third of global emissions. However, green building is one of the most cost-e ective solutions to climate change.
The commitments made at Buildings Day, the o cial COP21 meeting, include:
● 25 Green Building Councils committing to register, renovate or
certify over 1.25 billion m2 of green building space by 2020
● training quali ed green building professionals
● all 74 national Green Building Councils supporting the high-level
commitment from the World Green Building Council to achieve net zero carbon new building and energy-e cient refurbishment of the existing building stock by 2050.
Aiming to deliver over 1.25 billion m2 of green buildings by 2020. This is double the size of Singapore.
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