Last week Meredith Dale joined the NZGBC on an expert panel with Jenson Varghese (MRCagney) Erin Diao (Boffa Miskell Limited), Roxie Haines (Eke Panuku Development Auckland), and Hock Ter (NDY), to discuss and share about the Places Category of the new Greenstar Buildings tool. The panel discussed the four Places credits which sit alongside the 8 overarching asessment categories (see image attached). The panel used local and international examples to demonstrate how these credits can be targeted to achieve greater comfort, safety and enjoyment of places, including through the way the building celebrates culture, contributes to the wider public realm and supports sustainable transport choices. The new Greenstar Buildings tool is an exciting step for Aotearoa, lifting the bar of excellence and performance for commercial, industrial and mixed-use buildings seeking Greenstar accreditation. The Urban Advisory has supported the adaption of several Places credits to the New Zealand. We're excited about the potential of the Places Category in particular, which will encourage and recognise urban design and placemaking considerations in green building practice.
The Urban Advisory
Architecture and Planning
Our mission is to create healthier and more equitable homes, neighbourhoods, towns and cities.
About us
We are a team of urban advisors who work across scales and across New Zealand to ensure our neighbourhoods, towns and cities are places where people can thrive. We take an outcomes-focused approach and will work with you to increase the likelihood of your project’s success. Bringing a fresh perspective to the property industry, we are creative thinkers and passionate action takers who love the complexity of unfamiliar problems, multiple stakeholders, and nuanced governance. We solve urban challenges by: • offering a multi-disciplinary and end-to-end integrated approach that considers the spatial and planning implications early. • increasing the certainty that your project outcomes can be achieved by negotiating the necessary commitments from stakeholders. • balancing wellbeing outcomes and impact goals with the commercial viability and deliverability of your project.
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- Auckland
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- 2016
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- Integrated Design, Medium Density Housing Advisory, Bid development, Design Review, Sustainability, and Collaborative Urbanism
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As many of you know we love supporting groups to develop place strategies, and even more so to help deliver them to support thriving communities across Aotearoa. As part of this work last year we had the pleasure of continuing to work with the Uptown Business Association - Auckland to design and deliver the Uptown Futures Festival as part of a future-positive thought leadership approach to proactively engaging with Uptown communities as this part of town grows and changes. The festival included bringing together over 500 students from across Auckland's three architecture schools (AUT School of Future Environments Creative Arts and Industries, the University of Auckland Unitec School of Architecture) to conceptualise the future of the area as the Maungawhau Station is delivered by City Rail Link Ltd. These and some wise words about the process are now curated into a beautiful Uptown Futures Festival book. We're excited to see and be part of what happens next! To view full range of Festival submissions visit https://lnkd.in/ghr8Pvuq Thanks to the local design businesses too who also got behind the festival: ECC New Zealand, PB&A, Frequency, Pacific Environments and the supurb book design work by local firm Blink. #placemaking #placebranding #businessimprovementdistricts #urbanstrategy
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We have moved! Loving all the new meeting and working space options at Sinclair House - 3 Glenside Crescent, Eden Terrace, Auckland 1010. Still in the fabulous zone of Uptown Business Association - Auckland.
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Thanks for the summary of last week's The Urban Room event Malcolm McCracken - and for joining with Greer O'Donnell on the panel. We appreciate your support of the New Zealand Housing Survey and can't wait until it is one day used as part of the foundation for a #NationalHousingStrategy too!
On Tuesday evening, KPMG New Zealand and The Urban Room hosted an event titled “How we can get the #homes we want and need by 2050?" Some initial reflections on the discussion from me ⬇️ There was consensus that we need to do more but some (good) tension between the panelists on where focus lies. I'm a big supporter of what has been done by Kāinga Ora, Community Housing Providers and other affordable housing providers in recent years and I think more funding is needed in this space. However, I also don't think we can lose sight of further reforms we need to enable market development to better match supply with demand for homes in terms of size, typology, location, and ultimately cost. This can reduce the need for (and pressure on) interventions like social housing and the accommodation supplement, while ensuring housing better meets the needs of many individuals and whānau. A #NationalHousingStrategy was mentioned several times in different parts of the discussion. Here's a few of the questions I think it could seek to answer (this is not an exhaustive list). 🟢 What is the proportion of our housing supply (and need) we are seeking to achieve through market, social housing, community housing, papakāinga etc. over time? How does this differ by location? For each solution, what are the barriers? What funding is needed and how do we wish to pay for this? 🟢 How do we reduce construction costs? This is critical to improving affordability and supply, but also for enabling people to purchase housing that better meets their needs in terms of space, storage, living areas etc. A key point of discussion last night was that the cost of building in New Zealand can be 20-50% higher than Australia. 🟢 How do we scale up our construction sector and maintain a workforce and pipeline of new supply? It was great to see the new Residential Underwrites Scheme announced recently but social and community housing funding can also play a role in keeping the sector moving in market downturns. There was also some points that briefly emerged but we didn't get around to debating... including #InclusionaryZoning and #CapitalGainsTax but it is important to leave some fun for next time 😉 Ngā mihi Ben van Bruggen, founder of The Urban Room, for organising, to Mark Fraser for moderating and to my fellow panelists and presenters for some great discussion! Stuart Donovan, Greer O'Donnell, Penny Hulse and Hanna-Marie Monga 🙏
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A good summary (Thanks Alec Tang) of The Urban Room event last week which Greer O'Donnell was on the panel of. It's true, our housing ecosystem could be redesinged by us if we wanted to see more equitable outcomes as part of the equation... There's a whole bunch about diversifying the housing ecosystem on our Knowledge Hub: https://lnkd.in/gS3Z8F9t https://lnkd.in/gpGnCQ2J
Partner @ KPMG New Zealand | Strategic Advisor | Transition Catalyst | Sustainability | Climate | Nature | Fellow @ IEMA | Chartered Environmentalist
Super to host the latest The Urban Room kōrero last night at KPMG New Zealand, with an insightful (and sometimes spicy!) discussion centred on the question: “How we can get the #homes we want and need by 2050”? Lots to reflect on, including: 📈 the telling context (read: economists’ graphs) of our #housing and #construction history here in Aotearoa #NewZealand from Stuart Donovan (the chart on construction costs which you can just see in the third picture below drew lots of contemplative murmurs from the crowd); 👧🏽 the importance of a rangatahi/youth lens to the question and sharing the space we have (thank you Hanna-Marie Monga); 🗳️ the realities of our #political-#economy, the importance of #SocialLicense, and the role of #LocalGovernment - particular shout out to former Auckland Deputy Mayor, Penny Hulse lending her extensive reflections on this. My key takeout: It’s worth remembering that our human-centred #systems, such as those driving our current housing context, are seldom broken – it’s more likely that in creating them we’ve made various #assumptions and #simplifications, the implications of which are driving the outcomes and impacts we are experiencing. The good news is that people created those systems, so people can re-imagine them. But to successfully remake these systems, and to overcome some of the political inertia and vested interests, we need the various constituent parts of that system to engage and participate in that redesign, so they can understand, and collectively advocate for, the benefits of change. Massive thank you to Ben van Bruggen for holding the Urban Room concept and giving it life, to Malcolm McCracken for bringing the event to KPMG and to the awesome panelists, Mark Fraser, Greer O'Donnell, Stuart, Hanna-Marie, Penny and Malcolm.
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We are so glad to have Greer O'Donnell facilitating the breakout session: Localism Done Well: #CommunityWealthBuilding at the #EconomyforPublicGood conference.🌱🌏 Having co-created the Community Wealth Building white paper with The Urban Advisory, we're stoked to have them part of the conference. Greer is the co-founder and Managing Director of The Urban Advisory, a team of urban transformation professionals on a mission to create healthier and more equitable homes, neighbourhoods, towns and cities. The Urban Advisory has developed and recently launched New Zealand’s Housing Survey which is the culmination of many years of work in the housing sector; researching housing, developing housing strategies and housing needs assessments, and working with different groups to deliver housing that meets their unique needs. New Zealand’s Housing Survey will help build awareness around how people live, want to live and what barriers are in the way to achieving their housing aspirations, plugging a critical gap in the information needed for meaningful decision making. It’s time to redesign our economy to deliver wellbeing for nature and all our people. Join us at the Economy for Public Good Conference in Pōneke Wellington, we’ll weave a shared purpose for moving beyond a broken ‘business as usual’ economy. If you’d like to build bonds and share ideas with people inspired to create an economy where people and nature thrive, this one day hui is for you. The conference will feature Dr Katherine Trebeck as international keynote speaker, thought leaders discussing the big ideas for Aotearoa 2040, practitioners sharing stories of the new economy in action, and in-depth interactive training and breakout sessions. Tickets for this in person conference are set at only $100 and numbers are limited. Register now - https://lnkd.in/gJGtQ_Qy #TimeToRedesign
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Play Week is nearly upon us! We're super excited to see the Auckland Conversations theme for its next event (register below!) which will celebrate the need for playful cities (for the young and old, and everyone in between!) It got us reminiscing about our trips abroad (pictured) to some of the world's most playful cities - where play elements are incorporated adjacent to apartments, on streets, and rooftops. Berlin, Frieberg, and Vienna are particular cities where there's potential to play everywhere you go! Play, and the joy that comes with it are essential for well-being - no matter your age, and it's vital cities are designed with play in mind for the well-being of its citizens. 🏃♀️➡️ 💃 👯 🤸♂️ 🤹♀️ 🌳 🏀 🪁 🛝 https://lnkd.in/gaui76fE #Play #Citiesforall #Citiesforpeople #Wellbeing
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Look what just arrived! The new Scope Art and Design book, in which we feature. Open it to page 136 and you can find our report by the wonderful Devon Sanson and Dr Natalie Allen on the Uptown Futures Festival Uptown Business Association - Auckland. The gist: Uptown Auckland was once just a place to pass through - but in recent times has flourished into a reasonably affordable and lively place to live and do business, with a thriving art scene. Uptown now enters a phase of urban resurgence with the incoming City Rail Link 🚉 development. This is an opportunity the Uptown Business Association has been quick to take action on - working tirelessly to advocate for good outcomes for the future of their Uptown community. A key part of this mahi has been the development of a community vision, and the "6 place pillars" (the pillars are represented in the below image), which have been heavily informed by the existing Uptown community. This initial visioning work has led to inspiring projects within the community - for example, 550 young architects and urban designers came together to develop concepts and imagine urban interventions to support Uptown's future as a place to "stay" as opposed to "pass through." Their work culminated with the Uptown Futures Festival where "pop-up" spaces hosted the ideas from the architects and designers - further engaging Uptown's communities, and encouraging them to take an interest in the future of their precinct. This process engaged a wide variety of stakeholders, enriching the quality of community feedback and deepening the investment in the Uptown community in the future.
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Some free tickets still going! RSVP using the link below!
EDIT: This is now sold out, though you can join a waitlist via the link below. One week to go and just a handful of (free) tickets remain for The Urban Room event - How can we get the homes we really need and want by 2050? This will be a fantastic conversation featuring a panel including Stephen Hart, Greer O'Donnell, Penny Hulse, Hanna-Marie Monga, Stuart Donovan and myself, with debate moderated by Mark Fraser. We are excited to be hosting this event at KPMG New Zealand and look forward to seeing you there. Ngā mihi Ben van Bruggen, Founder of The Urban Room, for organising.
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See you there for coffee with this fine group of change makers! ☕
Auckland supporters! This Friday 8am, our monthly Tāmaki coffee catchup is taking place at Bestie Cafe ☀️🥐 Come along to #UrbanistaBrew and connect with inspiring women, enjoy the vibes and feel energised ahead of your day. See you this Friday at Bestie: https://lnkd.in/gzw24Rwh
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