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Creating Sustainable Homes
Learning to turn a cold old house into a sustainable healthy home. We wanted to retrofit a 1950s state house to improve the lives of the family who lived there and to significantly impr Continue Reading...
LIUDD and the community; Talbot Park
Can intensive urban development be green? And how have local residents found living in an intensification suburb which has taken a low impact urban design approach? These were two questions that Lan Continue Reading...
What on Earth is LIUDD?
Can we design cities to cleanse urban waterways and increase NZ's biodiversity? Low Impact Urban Design and Development (LIUDD) is an approach which works with nature, using design features such as Continue Reading...
Raintanks for Stormwater Management
How do you control flooding through nature and the home rain tank? Glencourt Place is a suburban neighbourhood in the North Shore, Auckland. The area lacked any official stormwater reticulatio Continue Reading...
Living roofs at the Auckland Botanic Gardens
Robyn Simcock and Elizabeth Fassman have installed funky 'living roofs' on the entrance to the children's garden and toilet block at the Auckland Botanic Gardens. These living roofs are not just Continue Reading...