How safe and healthy is a home?
The Healthy Housing Index project is helping to assess the quality and safety of New Zealand houses.
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The Healthy Housing Index project is helping to assess the quality and safety of New Zealand houses.
A research project monitoring temperatures in houses has identified a need to educate people on how to use heaters more effectively.
It is one thing to say that health improvements follow once a house is made warmer and drier, but much harder to prove this conclusively and scientifically. Two major research projects set out to do just that and have shown the benefits of well-insulated, warm houses.
Researchers at AgResearch and BRANZ are examining how allergens move from the floor back into the air.