Energy

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Household energy use

By Greg Overton 1 October 2019, Build 174, Feature article

How much energy we use affects carbon emissions, making it important to know current levels of household energy use. BRANZ’s HEEP project looked into this but technology changes means it may be time to revisit.

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Changing models

By Shaan Cory, Lynda Amitrano 1 December 2014, Build 145, Feature article

Prototype models developed from bees data are helping to make energy modelling of commercial buildings easier, allowing building designers to concentrate more on the building’s design parameters.

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Mastering meters

By Nigel Isaacs 1 December 2012, Build 133

Once electricity and then gas became available for public supply, meters were needed to measure how much people used. Prepaid options were a fairly early innovation.

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BEES buzzing

By Nigel Isaacs 1 February 2010, Build 116

Two years in, the BRANZ Building Energy End-use Study (BEES) is gearing up for a phone survey of non-residential buildings, monitoring of energy use and the development of improved thermal simulation models.

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