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Speaker 1: Brian Bridge.

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Speaker 2: One size fits all home designs the future of housing

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand, that is the question. The Building Research

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Speaker 2: Association of New Zealand Brands is getting ready to launch

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Speaker 2: its new consent ready home plans. This is in the

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Speaker 2: next couple of months. It all happened. They say that

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Speaker 2: the pre designed three bedroom home will save home builders

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Speaker 2: huge costs on architects. Doctor Chris Lisen is the GM

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Speaker 2: of Research at Brands and joins me.

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Speaker 1: Now, hello, hi Roan, how are you going tonight?

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Speaker 2: Very good? Thank you? Now give us the elevator pitch on.

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Speaker 1: This, okay, So we really know that housing affordable is

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Speaker 1: a real key issue for New Zealanders. So Brands is

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Speaker 1: all about using our research and testing about create practical

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Speaker 1: solutions and to do that we've come up with a

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Speaker 1: development of the next home and it's really to show

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Speaker 1: New Zealanders that you can build high quality, low carbon

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Speaker 1: and affordable homes. So we'll have these designs available later

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Speaker 1: in this year for free download, so anyone can use

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Speaker 1: it and they'll be consent ready, so you should be

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Speaker 1: able to use it anywhere across Museeale.

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Speaker 2: When you say consent ready, do you mean pre consented

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Speaker 2: or do you mean what do you mean by that?

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Speaker 1: So there's a scheme that the government runs called multiproof,

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Speaker 1: and these designs will be approved by that. So you're

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Speaker 1: literally about to take the designs, go to your counsel

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Speaker 1: and say here they are. Can we build a particular

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Speaker 1: building on what the land I've got? Councilor should say yes?

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Speaker 1: And that's it.

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Speaker 2: What will this save your average house builder?

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Speaker 1: Well, these designs. I think one of the misconceptions is

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Speaker 1: that high quality and low carbon or sustainable buildings are expensive,

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Speaker 1: and we're showing them not. So these designs are going

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Speaker 1: to be about the same price as a standard building

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Speaker 1: that's going on at the moment, but you get the

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Speaker 1: added benefits of saying really high quality, which means great

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Speaker 1: indoor equality, which means you will be healthier your carbon footprint,

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Speaker 1: if your intint carbon footprint will a gout fifty percent

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Speaker 1: lower than your standard house, and it will be a

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Speaker 1: similar price to what you'd be paying normally.

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Speaker 2: And I mean it sounds too good to be true,

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Speaker 2: of course is there.

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Speaker 1: There is no catch? And that's why we do this

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Speaker 1: research to really try and understand this sort of stuff. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: as I said before, there's a been misconception that high

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Speaker 1: quality and sustainable means unaffordable, and we're showing that's not.

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Speaker 2: What about the you know, each site has its own

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Speaker 2: quirks and sunlight coming in different directions. How do you

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Speaker 2: account for all of that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really why they still do need to go

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Speaker 1: to the council to get that consent to say actually,

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Speaker 1: this is the right place and not about to build

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Speaker 1: on a floodplain or on a slippery all that's going

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Speaker 1: to wash my house away or anything like that. So

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Speaker 1: that is the but that we can't control that. There's

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Speaker 1: very much having those designs, talking to the council about it,

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Speaker 1: and it should be very simple to get it all

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Speaker 1: sorted out with them.

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Speaker 2: How do you think this could scale up? You know,

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Speaker 2: will we have entire suburbs of identical homes?

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Speaker 1: Well, one of the real issues with New Zealand is

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Speaker 1: we all love to have something different, right, every home

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Speaker 1: we want look different to their neighbors, and unfortunate it's

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Speaker 1: just not the way you can build sustainable and build

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Speaker 1: sustainable and have sort of affordable homes. So these designs

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Speaker 1: are very much about standardization. They've got standard window sizes,

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Speaker 1: they do have some standard force structures and layouts. But

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I think this really is

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Speaker 1: if over sees a lot of places are all similar,

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Speaker 1: they can paint these made, these things can look different,

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Speaker 1: but it is the way of the future. Really.

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Speaker 2: It's about affordability. It's not about flashy.

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Speaker 1: It is about affordability. It's not about flashy. But again,

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Speaker 1: in this case, fleshy means it's really high quality and

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Speaker 1: you're going to have a great healthy environment inside the home,

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Speaker 1: which quite a lot of homes don't have.

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Speaker 2: Are the architects angry at you?

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Speaker 1: We've got our own architects on board. We've had architects

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Speaker 1: pay review these and they're all really excited about what's

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Speaker 1: going on.

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Speaker 2: No one's going to be put out of business.

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Speaker 1: That's not our aim. Our aim is very much about

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Speaker 1: having some really good designs that people can use. And

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Speaker 1: we're not going to make anyone use them, of course,

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Speaker 1: but they're there and available if you want to, you

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Speaker 1: go for.

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Speaker 2: It, all right, Well, leave it there, Thanks so much

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Speaker 2: for your time. Dr Chris Listen is the GM of

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