Welcome to Level, the authority on sustainable building.
Level will help you design and build homes which have less impact on the environment and are healthier, more comfortable, and have lower running costs.
What's new
ENERGY STAR set to end
The ENERGY STAR scheme, whose mark can be found on products and appliances that have superior energy efficiency, is to end in December 2017. Read more.
Retrofitted apartment performance
BRANZ has released a report detailing the performance achieved in an apartment block retrofit. Read more.
Poor maintenance of rental housing
Rental properties were twice as likely to be rated “poorly maintained” compared to owner-occupied houses in the latest BRANZ House Condition Survey. Read more.
Recently added
- We’ve added a page about the Passive House standard to our Passive Design section and a page about the risks of Construction noise to our Health and safety section.
Sustainable Building Design in New Zealand #1
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Sustainable Building Design in New Zealand #2
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ScienceTalk: Improving NZ homes for heating
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Maintenance Schedules
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Resources
- Recent BRANZ bulletins that cover Level topics include BU608 Building Life Cycle Assessment and BU609 Photovoltaic systems for dwellings.
- BRANZ has just released new editions of Plumbing, Electrical Design and Heating, Cooling and Ventilation in the Level series of books
- BRANZ has published Study Report SR369 Retrofit performance measurement of Kotuku apartments. This is available for free download here.
- To buy any BRANZ publication, see www.branz.co.nz or ph 0800 80 80 85 (press 2).
- BRANZ Find is a free digital search tool covering a wide range of New Zealand building information from BRANZ, Standards New Zealand, MBIE and others. www.branzfind.co.nz