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Build Magazine — 179

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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