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It’s official - Pā Reo is a certified Living Building Challenge® Full Living project!

29.04.26

Pā Reo has passed the certification process to become a sustainable, self-sufficient building under the ultra-strict and world-leading Living Building Challenge® Full Living certification!

Carbon Principles

Achieve net zero carbon by 2030

Calculate embodied carbon on all projects

Recognise carbon as one component of sustainability

Evaluate design decisions against their carbon impact

Communicate carbon insights to the project team

Advocate and engage the project team to find ways to reduce carbon impacts

Report module based carbon data to an open source database

Forest Owners Association Facts & Figures

20.03.26

Our advocacy as part of the Living Building Challenge brought us before Elizabeth Heeg, CEO of the NZFOA, Rachel Millar, Environmental Manager of the NZFOA, and, Mark Ross, CEO of the WPMA

American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2030 Commitment

20.03.26

Tennent Brown Architects has adopted a Sustainability Action Plan (SAP) aligned with the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2030 Commitment

Tiakina taiao: Carbon, climate, equity

04.06.25

2025 Living Future Institute of Australia's Biophilic Design Awards

#37 Select Committee

22.11.24

Building (Overseas Building Products, Standards, and Certification Schemes) Amendment Bill

#36 Reduce Embodied Carbon NZ

19.07.24

New Industry Initiative to Reduce Embodied Carbon of New Zealand Buildings

Petal #7 Beauty

03.10.23

Living Building Challenge Petals - Beauty

Petal 6 - Equity

29.09.23

Living Building Challenge Petals - Equity

#34 Deeply tau: Pā Reo

22.09.23

Beyond 'business as usual'

Petal 5 - Materials

21.09.23

Living Building Challenge Petals - Materials

#33 LBC Induction

21.09.23

Ngā ringa raupa o te pā—Subcontractors’ induction

Petal 4 - Health and Happiness

28.08.23

Living Building Challenge Petals - Health and Happiness