This is a NZGBC hosted webinar.
12:00pm - 1:00pm | Wednesday 17 September 2025

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:
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 (excl. GST)
This is a free members webinar.
$0 Member price
$40 Non Member price
$0 Future Thinkers
Speaker details

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.
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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