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New Zealand home peformance rating scheme
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The New Zealand government today launched a home performance rating scheme where the home owner can rate their house based on certain criteria. Check out the newspaper link below and the website that…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by CK Ang Dec 28, 2010.
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Fluke Thermal Imaging left a comment for CK Ang"Hey CK, thanks for letting us use your infrared image for this week's Teaser Tuesday! Can't wait to see what people guess. And feel free to add any comments to the answer, which will be posted on Thursday. As Michael said below, we'd…"
J.C. Martel replied to CK Ang's discussion New Zealand home peformance rating scheme"All - you may be interested in a webinar tomorrow, Nov 17th on the DOE's Home Energy Scoring Tool. Joan Glickman, who manages the project, will give an update on the November 9th announcement and the testing being done on the Home Energy Score.…"
CK Ang replied to CK Ang's discussion New Zealand home peformance rating scheme"I am not sure if you can get it in the USA. Here is the link
http://www.raven.com.au/domino/raven/ravenweb.nsf/html-v/RavenDoorandWindowSeals"
Jim Klebes replied to CK Ang's discussion New Zealand home peformance rating scheme"
Do you know CK if they are available in the United States?"
CK Ang replied to CK Ang's discussion New Zealand home peformance rating scheme"the door bottom seal is very common here in New Zealand"
Jim Klebes replied to CK Ang's discussion New Zealand home peformance rating scheme"
Did anyone notice the unique door bottom seal about 41 seconds into this youtube video?"
CK Ang replied to CK Ang's discussion New Zealand home peformance rating scheme"One of the advertisement produced by the NZ government department
http://www.youtube.com/user/EECAENERGYWISE#p/u/36/ezJEP8XS2LI"
J.C. Martel replied to CK Ang's discussion New Zealand home peformance rating scheme"Lawrence Berkeley National Lab produced a similar tool called the Home Energy Saver. http://hes.lbl.gov/consumer/ Actually the market is saturated with tools like this."
CK Ang replied to CK Ang's discussion New Zealand home peformance rating scheme"It is a start. The challenge with New Zealand houses is that 2/3 of all the houses in NZ has little or no wall insulation. All houses built before the mid 1970s have little or no insulation. The NZ government was nice to contribute up to 1500NZD for…"
Evan Mills replied to CK Ang's discussion New Zealand home peformance rating scheme"Agreed much with Michael -- and Home Energy Pros is already doing its part, with members from the following 11 countries joining in just the first week!
• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Estonia
• Germany
• India
•…"
Evan Mills replied to CK Ang's discussion New Zealand home peformance rating scheme"Very cool.
I like the GUI."
Michael Stuart replied to CK Ang's discussion New Zealand home peformance rating scheme"CK,
Thanks for sharing what is going on in your corner of the world. This proves that energy efficiency in homes in more than a growing trend in the USA. Energy Efficiency is a GLOBAL concern, and it will take global action to address properly."
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- At 1:54pm on December 4, 2010,
Diane Chojnowski said… - Hi CK, It would be great if you'd add your location to the Member Map! We'd love to see New Zealand represented.
Thanks,
Diane
- At 10:25am on November 16, 2010, Fluke Thermal Imaging said…
- Hey CK, thanks for letting us use your infrared image for this week's Teaser Tuesday! Can't wait to see what people guess. And feel free to add any comments to the answer, which will be posted on Thursday. As Michael said below, we'd love to see more of your "infrared vision" from New Zealand :)
- At 6:10pm on November 4, 2010, Michael Stuart said…
- CK, glad to see you here! Hopefully, you can share some of what you see down in New Zealand with all of us. (I know you have some infrared images too!) ;)
- At 5:37pm on November 4, 2010, Evan Mills said…
- Nice to see folks from other countries starting to show up. We certainly want to go global here ;)
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