Featured in this Build magazine issue
Commercial buildings: Challenges abound for commercial buildings. High energy and water use are issues, and weathertightness has caused plenty of problems. But there are also reasons to celebrate as exciting New Zealand innovations help push timber structures higher.
CPD and LBPs: Keeping up to date is vital in any profession but especially so across the building industry, with ongoing changes to Building Codes, standards and industry practice. We check out what's happening with the licensed building practitioners scheme as well as the professional development on offer.
Commercial buildings
- Avoiding risky behaviour
- Building on what BEES uncovered
- Changing models
- Environmental impacts of office buildings
- Innovative timber reaches new highs
- Rainwater and greywater
- The cost of earthquake resilience
- What’s hot and what’s not
CPD and LBPs
- A record that’s not negotiable
- Learning while earning
- What’s ahead for the LBP scheme?
Build Right
- Scaffolding in the frame
- H3.1 cavity battens
Design Right
- Stud substitution
- Bracing for monopitch roofs
- New-look Lintels and Beams Calculator
Departments
- Business boom
- Windows can now star
- Keep on top of contracts
- Insight into site safety
- Clever thinking protects workers
- IRD query? Don’t DIY
Regulars
- Going for growth
- The problem with bespoke
- Balancing act
- Data unlocks secrets