MBE EP 38 Sam Archer, NZGBC, on Building to a Homestar 6 Rating

<p>Sam Archer from The New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC) shares how you can build to a Homestar 6 rating. A 6 Homestar rating or higher means the home will be easier and more cost effective to keep warm, healthy and more environmentally friendly than a typical new house built to building code. This podcast was delivered first as a live webinar to Master Builder members to help them understand how Homestar is designed to be good for people, and to have a lower impact on the environment. Participants asked questions which were answered during the session. </p><p>Homestar is a comprehensive, independent national rating tool, run by the not-for-profit Green Building Council, that measures the health, warmth and efficiency of New Zealand houses. Homestar is owned, together, by all of us in the green building movement who want homes in Aotearoa to be healthy, warm, dry places for New Zealanders to thrive in.</p><p><strong>Sam Archer</strong><br>Director of Market Transformation, The New Zealand Green Building Council<br>Sam Archer is a Sustainability Consultant and Mechanical Engineer with over 18 years experience in the Construction Industry. As Director Market Transformation at the New Zealand Green Building Council, he is responsible for running the sustainability and energy assessment tools - Green Star, Homestar and NABERSNZ. He has a passion for sustainable housing having spent 6 years creating and managing the sustainability framework for a 3000 home development for the University of Cambridge. Sam also has extensive experience in sustainability and energy strategies, including carbon policy work for UK government, sustainable urban design and low energy and passive building design.</p><p><strong>Links</strong></p><ul> <li>The New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC) is  a non-profit membership organisation that promotes better buildings, because better buildings mean healthier, happier people <a href="https://www.nzgbc.org.nz/">https://www.nzgbc.org.nz/</a> </li> <li>Homestar - Learn more an