Featured in this Build magazine issue
Quality: Quality means different things to different people. For some it's high-end design that exceeds Building Code requirements. For others it's simply a safe and comfortable home for whānau. Why is it a struggle to achieve either?
Quality
- Accelerating acceptance of innovations
- Getting into the quality habit
- Let digital innovation do the heavy lifting
- The beauty and benefits of living with nature
Energy efficiency
- Carbon-neutral retrofitting for climate change
- The heat is on
Build Right
- Coatings for timber weatherboards
- Structurally fixing cavity battens for horizontal timber weatherboards
Design Right
- Insulated unheated slab-on-ground concrete floors
- The vexed issue of requests for information
Departments
- Fired up about work
- Designing for our most vulnerable
- Seismic detailing of steel joints and fire performance
- Turning down the heat
- Improving the seismic performance of non-structural elements
- Direct route to a circular economy
- What opening the market means
- Clever design for a low-carbon future
- Nature-positive infrastructure
- Make the most of quiet times
- Designers, health and safety, and the Building Code
- Skills maintenance - exploring options for self-certification of building work
- Skills maintenance - Complaints not upheld
Regulars
- The quality quotient
- Balancing the quality/affordability equation
- Building confidence and resilience in 2025