Product Description This report investigates industry beliefs about why weathertightness issues persist in new residential builds and how these issues can be mitigated. The research methods used include an online...
Product Description This report investigates residents’ experiences of maintaining medium-density housing (MDH). The study presents different perspectives of MDH from those commonly heard – one that represents views generated from...
This research aimed to better understand how territorial authorities currently make occupancy decisions related to earthquake-prone buildings and how they could do this better. In doing so, we combined legal,...
Product Description This study report highlights independent design managers (IDMs) in the New Zealand construction industry. Unlike other construction disciplines, no minimum qualifications or professional memberships for IDM professionals exist...
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...
Following the 2011 Canterbury and 2016 Hurunui/Kaik?ura earthquakes, the focus on seismic risk and associated seismic assessment process led to the rapid closure of several public buildings throughout the country....
EQI Awareness of solutions: This project focuses on the reasons for persistent, high impact, high frequency quality issues in the construction industry, aiming also to locate solutions for defects and...
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...
