Product Description The extent of existing use of prefabrication in New Zealand buildings is discussed. Prefabrication and standardisation (S&P) are both generally thought to have benefits in building construction, but...
Product Description This report is the culmination of a number of projects and additional primary research into the questions of industry and sub-industry level productivity measures and performance measures. It...
This study considers how sustainability and resilience features are valued by the market and the role various stakeholders play in educating the new-build and resale market about the value of...
Traditional productivity measures such as capital and labour productivity suggest that the construction industry has performed poorly over a long period of time. This is particularly the case when compared...
This report summarises the findings of a scoping study into the potential for over-cladding as a solution for overcoming the stigma associated with leaky type houses that do not leak....
The Construction Dashboard is intended to help industry bodies, individual builders, government and training providers understand what is happening in the industry today and where it is headed tomorrow. It...
The contention of earlier work by BRANZ is that traditional technical measures of productivity, while valuable for comparing industries and compiling national GDP estimates, are of little meaning or use...
