Streamlined access to new product and material innovations would help to improve quality in the New Zealand building sector. A Levy-funded research project looked at how to achieve this in the face of hurdles such as limited access to development funding and uncertainty among building consent authorities (BCAs) about the compliance of new products.
The stats show small building firms are losing ground to the better-resourced medium and large players, who are demonstrating resilience in their operations.
Increasing the adoption of new building materials and products is key to achieving Aotearoa New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions targets as well as improving productivity. However, using tried and tested...
By necessity, most of Aotearoa New Zealand’s residential construction firms are small scale. This is often seen as a weakness in terms of resilience and is perceived as one of...
Finding ways to improve the integration of third party technology as part of the building consent process. Improving the efficiency & information/knowledge about quality of buildings
Significant data is collected on the building and construction industry by a range of agencies and organisations. However, these individual datasets only ever tell one part of the whole story...
