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12:00pm - 1:00pm | Wednesday 17 September 2025

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Webinar - Helping Developers Reduce Risk and Improve Returns

What you need to know

Join us for a targeted webinar exploring how to deliver profitable, healthy housing at scale. This webinar is targeted at developers and builders and will cover how to reduce risk, unlock financial advantages, and deliver what customers actually want—without unnecessary cost or complexity.

The New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC) is working with developers and builders across the country to help them reduce risk, improve returns, and deliver homes that customers genuinely value. 

In this session, you’ll hear how better-performing homes can: 

  • Unlock lower-interest development finance, making more of your projects viable 
  • Reduce post-build risk, including costly callbacks due to overheating or moisture issues 
  • Deliver superior comfort and air quality, boosting buyer satisfaction and reputation 
  • Save your customers $60–$100k over the life of their mortgage and energy bills 
  • Stand out in a competitive market, with verified performance that’s easy to communicate and scale

We’ll also introduce  Homestar Ready — a streamlined, low-cost pathway for verifying quality and performance, designed specifically for large-scale residential delivery. 

This session will equip you with actionable knowledge to reduce costs, manage risk, and deliver homes that perform—without overdesigning or overspending. 

 

Who should attend this webinar

This webinar is suited to residential property developers, home builders, project managers, design consultants and architects, sales and marketing teams, landowner and investors.

 

pricing
Pricing (excl. GST)

This is a free members webinar.

$0 Member price
$40 Non Member price
$0 Future Thinkers

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Date & Time

Join us on;

17/09/25
12:00pm - 1:00pm

where
Location

Our webinars are all hosted via Zoom. 

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CPD Points

Continuous professional development points available;

Homestar

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Speaker details

Matthew
Matthew Cutler-Welsh

Business Development Manager - Residential, NZGBC

Matthew leads work on healthy lower carbon homes at the NZGBC.  Overseeing the auditing, research and for Homestar, the national standard for healthy lower carbon homes and buildings.
After completing his Honours Degree in Natural Resources Engineering Matthew now has 15 years of experience leading residential energy efficiency projects and education programmes in New Zealand and Australia. In 2016 he joined the Board of the Passive House Institute New Zealand.

An experienced presenter, facilitator and podcaster, Matthew has interviewed over 200 architects, builders and industry experts from around the World on the Home Style Green podcast.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

If you are unable to attend one of our regular webinars, you will be able to view it on our growing library of on-demand videos. For more information please visit https://nzgbc.org.nz/explore-on-demand-videos.

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