
Matthew Cooper
American journalist
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Aug 10, 2026
EP155 5 Million HERS Ratings: What This Milestone Really Means (July 2026)
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8:25Matthew CooperGUEST
I would say to follow on Steve's comments, It's gotten much more technically complex in some ways because construction has changed.
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8:34Matthew CooperGUEST
And so in order to keep up with that, the rating industry has had to change.
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8:45Matthew CooperGUEST
Now we have so many new products that builders are using in the construction of their homes and the complexity of how those products have to interact.
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8:55Matthew CooperGUEST
becomes key to the successful performance of the home that we as hers raters are the third party professional that the home builder is counting on us to help them build these homes properly and to make these products work together the way that they're intended to work together.
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9:13Matthew CooperGUEST
So that has made things much more complicated and running an organization who this month we will surpass our 300,000th hers rated home as a company.
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Mara IngramGUEST
So I thought that was truly incredible how fast, but also the quality of work that we are putting out.
How bad sideline behaviour is putting kids off sport
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1:11Matthew CooperGUEST
And it's, um, I think, you know, just that context, um, that needs to be, you know, the overall majority of parents and coaches and, and supporters actually doing the right thing.
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1:22Matthew CooperGUEST
Um, unfortunately it's, you know, it's those who, it's that minority, uh, GC that, uh, you know, every year we, we seem to get this and it's, This is just not a Waikato thing.
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1:38Matthew CooperGUEST
But I think where I certainly came from last week or a couple of weeks ago was I do support the organisations that have to make the hard call.

Jesse MulliganHOST
How much do you rely on volunteers and how hard is it to keep them turning up without any pay when there's this sort of stuff going on, particularly when they're the subject of this abuse?
Chaos in Oak Creek
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Steve ScaffidiHOST
It was an incredible story.So Donate Life Month, what does that speak to? What does, what do people need to know about it?
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18:21Matthew CooperGUEST
But the fact of the matter is, in order to do transplantation, we have to recognize that every transplant starts with a donor.
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18:29Matthew CooperGUEST
We really, and I hope most people would, celebrate organ donors the entirety of the year.