Product Description The construction industry has the highest proportion of suicides across all industries in New Zealand. To date, there has been no research in New Zealand investigating the factors...
Product Description New Zealand is facing significant housing pressure, and medium-density housing (MDH) is set to be an important part of the solution. This study investigated who in the building...
Product Description This project explores the human factors behind the industry’s willingness or otherwise to adopt new practices, even when there is clear evidence of potential advantages to them in...
Product Description This report identifies technical issues with medium-density housing as perceived by New Zealand’s building and construction industry. The research methods used include an online survey, workshops and in-depth...
Product Description This project explores the facilities management (FM) industry from the perspectives of FM practitioners, their clients and their suppliers. This includes the demographic makeup of FM practitioners, the...
This report outlines experiences that industry practitioners and councils have had with resource and building consent legislation and processes as they apply to medium-density housing. It identifies some of the...
Product Description The aim of this project is to determine the barriers to achieving quality housing in New Zealand. 369 sources of literature were identified through keyword searching of databases...
Product Description Medium-density housing (MDH) can present particular maintenance challenges for its owners. The maintenance requirements of this type of housing may be more complex than for stand-alone housing. Collaborative...
This report explores the feasibility of implementing a building pathology approach to monitoring building defects in New Zealand. The focus of this research is on residential buildings.This research focuses on...
This project is exploring the technical issues which affect MDH from the perspective of tradespeople building & designing MDH, so as to identify research gaps and inform the direction of...
