Featured in this Build magazine issue
Building better: New Zealanders suffer from our poor-quality residential building stock. BRANZ is among those looking at ways to eliminate this problem by taking a whole-of system approach to understand why this is the case.
Mid-rise housing: Mid-rise housing continues to grow in popularity, accounting for over 40% of new residential consents in 2019.
Building better
- Eliminating poor-quality buildings
- Housing quality defects cost
- Ongoing issues
- Rating our building regs – part 1
- Tackling residential building quality
- What makes buyers comfortable?
Mid-rise housing
- Maintaining mid-rises
- On the rise
- Testing mid-rise cladding
- Timber-based hybrid buildings
Build Right
- Managing geotechnical risk
Design Right
- Using the E2/AS1 risk matrix
- BRANZ resources for better homes
Departments
- Doing it right first time
- Advancing durable timber structures
- Home builders and clients
- New technology and the future
- COVID and the new normal
- Digital twins and vibrating vests
- Advanced façade systems
- Registrar’s update
- New building consent exemptions
- Competence in design
- Can I get paid if there’s no contract?
- Site safety and the new normal
- Strategies to survive the downturn
Regulars
- Eliminating quality issues
- Don’t forget the little guys