Little Greenie

Little Greenie is New Zealand’s most energy efficient house. It was the idea of one Kiwi who just wanted to build a low maintenance simple and warm house. He did just that and in the process, outclassed all the experts.

The Hikurangi Foundation recognised the need for New Zealanders to learn from this example, and bought together the right people within the building sector to complete a performance analysis of Little Greenie with Lawrence McIntyre (the house owner), Verney Ryan (a housing analyst) and EECA. The report assesses and documents a range of sustainability, livability and practicality criteria in order to have verifiable facts as the basis for any future work in promoting the house and the philosophy behind it.

We are proud to announce the full report is available now, download here (800kb).