Existing Stock for the Future: Problems, Opportunities and Strategies for Energy Upgrade of 1940–1960 State Housing in New Zealand

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Manfredo Manfredini, Paola Leardini

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A large part of current New Zealand housing stock was built before compulsory home insulation was introduced in 1978. In recent years, the low energy efficiency of these older houses has aggravated significantly existing issues of health inequality, fuel poverty and building decay. As they will constitute a significant portion of future housing stock, their retrofit provides a logical option to meet present and future environmental imperatives and to tackle the most urgent health issues of a country with the second highest incidence of asthma in the world. State housing, in particular, includes a relevant portion of problematic buildings, which are cold and
damp, often with evidence of mould growth.

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