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
Insulation grants scheme expanded
The Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes insulation grants scheme has been extended to include low-income homeowners. Read more.
Homestar V4 on the way
A new version of the Homestar standard, Version 4, is due for release at the end of July. Read more.
Standard for renewable energy battery systems
A new standard is being developed for battery systems used with photovoltaic and other renewable energy systems. 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