Why thousands of townhouses are overheating this summer

Do you ever get the feeling New Zealand just doesn’t know how to build houses properly?

We had the leaky homes crisis – where timber-framed homes built from 1988 to 2004 were not fully weather-tight.

And now, construction experts are warning that tens of thousands of Auckland families will suffer in overheating terraced houses unless designs change.

Terraced houses are being built at pace in Auckland, with even more expected after the Government mooted 55,000 new ones to be fast-tracked through the consent process.

Today on The Front Page, we’re joined by New Zealand Green Building Council business development manager Matthew Cutler-Welsh to dig into what’s gone wrong with these new houses.

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