PROPERTY VALUES - EccoInavator - Spring Issue View PDF Version
With nearly a quarter of New Zealand’s energy supply consumed by buildings, housing affordability concerns, and increasing demands for design longevity, there’s pressure on property developers to be thinking about sustainability.

We’re learning that sustainability is all about leadership, stewardship and respect.

As urban design leaders, McConnell Property creates places that have vision and fit their context.
Well-designed streetscapes and street networks are reminders of how these are more sustainable and liveable places.

Bob Earl On Good Urban Design In New Zealand.

We’re all learning how to be better stewards of the environment. For developers this begins by efficiently using land, designing in water and energy efficiencies and savings, and seeking out sustainable materials. The next step is up to the people who live and work in these places —we’d like to work more with them to achieve more sustainable solutions.

Respect. Sustainability and any ambition of creating great places to live and work must begin with respect for people. We’ve taken the first steps to better understanding how people use places, engaging people in the process and setting the scene for residential and work communities
to grow.

New Zealand has come a long way on the sustainability front. In the development industry this has seen the introduction of the Urban Design Protocol and Green Building Council. With a four star green rating on the design of Ascot Central, best practice recognition of our urban design at Addison and New Zealand’s first future proofed master planned community at Anselmi Ridge, we’re making a difference.

Mark Gibb On Future-proof Building at Anselmi Ridge, Pukekohe, Auckland.

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