Joe Lyth

Joe is an Associate Registered Architect, Certified Passive House Designer and Homestar Assessor with expertise in high performance, new build and renovation design in the UK and NZ. Originally from North Yorkshire in the UK, Joe studied and worked in London from early 2007 before making the move to New Zealand in 2016, when he joined Respond Architects

After watching his family get sick in cold, mouldy, minimum code buildings, his passion grew for building performance and occupant health. He produced his own project Lower Saddle Passive House to ensure his families health, and show that healthier, lower energy and affordable buildings are possible for everyone in New Zealand, at standard budgets. He has since used the project as a pathway to test approaches to achieving better buildings, and as an education tool for the wider industry.

Joe is extremely passionate about education, performing lectures for universities, internally for the company and externally for the wider industry. He is a trainer and co-writer of the new Homestar Designer Course for NZGBC, and was lead author on the Homestar Design Guide – A Practical Guide to Lower Carbon, Healthier Buildings. He is also the lead of the Auckland PHINZ Chapter.