Featured in this Build magazine issue
Affordability: Affording a home has remained stubbornly out of the reach of many. Will new initiatives such as loosening the supply of land and the government's pledge for fast-track approval of 55,000 new homes make a difference?
Testing and certification: Comprehensive testing of building products and systems by independent experts has benefits for manufacturers, suppliers, customers and regulators
Affordability
- Affordable comfort - how hard can it be?
- Affordable housing and construction
- Are residential building firms becoming more resilient?
- Bringing house prices back to Earth
- Rethinking the way Kiwis rent
- Supercharging the supply of land and housing
Testing and certification
- Assurance services
- The Appraisals journey
Build Right
- Air seals in exterior envelope penetrations
- Boundaries and retaining walls
Design Right
- H1 compliance and construction R-values
- Designing to achieve net zero
Departments
- Behind the science
- High quality data for carbon footprinting
- Faster consenting and a permanent record of work
- Signs of financial trouble
- Towards a legal framework for our new climate normal
- Tradies can benefit from retention money changes
- Students take on ex-state house retrofit
- Supervision
- Remote inspections
Regulars
- Stepping up and speaking out – what does the science tell us?
- What do we mean by vocational education?
- Rethinking the Kiwi ideal