Home Style Green
Inspiring people to create a better place to live. How do you make a home that's warm, healthy and energy efficient? Matthew is a trained engineer and has worked in various programmes aimed a making homes more sustainable. This podcast brings you the best designers, architects and product experts to discuss how to make homes stylish and green.
- Website
- http://cutlerwelsh.libsyn.com
- Description
- Building a healthy, happy lifestyle without it costing the Earth. Tips, tricks and trends in green home building and remodeling.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-20 22:44
- last episode published
- 2024-04-20 09:10
- publication frequency
- 15.59 days
- Contributors
- Matthew Cutler-Welsh
- Author Owner
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- Number of Episodes
- 284
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- Categories
- Design Technology Natural Sciences Science & Medicine Gadgets Health & Fitness Arts
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Episodes
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| 2024-04-20 | This week I attended a BRANZ seminar titled 'Building for our changing climate'. Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland was the last stop on the BRANZ seminar tour of the country and it's encouraging to think that rooms of designers, builders, product suppliers, bui... |
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| 2024-04-13 | Steve Penny is the founder and director at Honoris, a building services consultancy in Christchurch, New Zealand. He is also the host of his own podcast, A Penny for Your Thoughts. |
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| 2024-04-01 | Many people might be surprised to know that the New Zealand Building Code does not require any consideration of overheating in homes. The energy efficiency requirements in our code are based only on the ability of buildings to keep warm without excess... |
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| 2024-03-23 |
Build Aotearoa: Changing the Window Industry with Benjy Simmons Stärke has been in the window industry in New Zealand since the 80s. They were at the forefront of supplying aluminium frames to the building industry but have recently made some big changes. With a focus on building performance, Benjy Simmons describe... |
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| 2024-03-15 | More is not always better, especially regarding the amount of timber in the frame of a house. The more timber there is, the less space there is for insulation. The way this is measured is called timber fraction. Most homes in Aotearoa are designed usi... |
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| 2024-03-09 | Denise Martin has been involved with many of Aotearoa's Passive House projects. As one of the most experienced blower door testers in the country, she's been involved with verifying a range of residential and commercial buildings both in New Zealand a... |
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| 2024-03-02 | I found it confronting listening to Tova O'Brien's guest this past week as she described the experiences of staying in motel emergency accommodation with a young daughter. From my relative privilege (of choosing the right parents and having things tur... |
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| 2024-02-25 | Last week, February 22nd rolled around. This was a significant date in the Cutler-Welsh household thirteen years ago when our house was located close to the Avon River in Christchurch. While it was a life-changing day for us, life has gone on. We ultim... |
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| 2024-02-16 | There are fundamental gaps in what the New Zealand Building Code covers and how well it covers the aspects that are included. These reasons should be enough to justify using standards like Passive House or Homestar to go above and beyond the building ... |
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| 2024-02-06 | As I draft this episode, there's a chorus of cicadas outside my window. The sun is shining and there's a faint breath of a breeze. It seems calm where I live, here in a relatively leafy part of Tāmaki Makaurau. But all is not calm everywhere in Aotear... |
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