Featured in this Build magazine issue
Building controls: How all the parts of New Zealand’s building control framework fit together may be a puzzle to some. To help, we look at various parts of our performance-based building control system and how to use them.
Fire safety: Valuable research by BRANZ fire engineers is improving understanding of fire behaviour in buildings. The result is useful guidance to help protect buildings in the event of a fire. On the regulatory side, MBIE has also been busy with new fire safety proposals.
Building controls
- A code based on scientific data
- Building Code turns 25
- Decoding building controls
- Supporting alternative methods
- Tips to avoid RFIs
Fire safety
- B-RISK update
- Fire safety proposals
- Fire-safe timber linings
- Passive fire protection 101
- Vertical fire spread
Build Right
- Stepped foundation walls
- Roof flashings
Design Right
- Flashing openings in masonry veneer
- Don't be cool about warm roofs
Departments
- Claim size doesn’t matter
- United on safety
- Taxing cash flow challenges
- Jobs in a boom time
- Optimum upgrades
- Harvested and recycled water use
- Are we warm, dry and healthy?
- Registrar’s update
- Exempt building work – part 2
- Reducing noise transmission
- Where to for construction?
- A productivity revolution
Regulars
- Informing change
- Better thinking needed