Sustainable Homes - Training & Grants
Practical help, such as courses and funding, is available for Wellington homeowners, tenants, and building sector professionals to make their homes sustainable.
Wellington High School Community Education
Wellington High School’s Community Education Centre offers a Sustainable Households course designed to help people learn how to change their own homes to lessen impacts on the planet, improve health and save money.
Wellington High School Community Education website
Building Biology & Ecology Institute
The Building Biology and Ecology Institute offers courses and workshops for people interested in building their own eco-home, and for builders wanting to focus on healthy and ecologically sound building practices. Students can study by correspondence for the Certificate in Ecological Building and Design. Course materials are also available to people who want to study informally.
Building Biology and Ecology Institute website
Victoria University
Victoria University offers a degree paper in Sustainable Architecture that is an introduction to the ideas, issues and concepts of sustainable architecture. As part of course work, students complete projects looking at ways to make new materials from waste, particularly construction and demolition waste. The course is available to second-year Architecture and Design students.
School of Architecture - Victoria University website
EnergyWise Home Grants
The EnergyWise grants scheme provides funds to low-income households for insulation and energy-saving measures in the home. The scheme is available for work in houses built before 1978 when home insulation became mandatory. Twelve thousand homes a year benefit from the scheme.
SolarSmarter
The Government has launched the SolarSmarter website to encourage householders to install solar water-heating systems and to ensure industry standards are achieved. The SolarSmarter cash grant offers householders $500 towards installation costs.
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