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

Our homes are overheating

New findings. Read more.

Dunedin preps for bigger floods

New protections. Read more.

Solar generation sizzling

Milestones hit. Read more.

Household electricity use falls

Efficiency boom. Read more.

Recently added

Reducing Carbon: Where is it in a building?
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Reducing Carbon: House size and form
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Reducing Carbon: Solar design and the thermal envelope
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Reducing Carbon: Materials selection
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Reducing Carbon: Fixtures & Appliances
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Resources

Recent BRANZ bulletins that cover Level topics include BU698 Residential mechanical ventilation systems, BU696 Seismically resilient design, BU694 Retrofitting wall insulation while replacing the linings in houses and BU690 Thermal bridges in external wall framing.

BRANZ has published the reports ER99 Best practice urban form for emissions reduction. Carbon neutral neighbourhoods and ER98 Quantifying timber waste generated from construction and demolition sector in New Zealand.