Build 207 Fire in focus Cover

Build Magazine 207

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Featured in this Build magazine issue

Fire in focus: From full-scale fire testing in BRANZ new lab to wildfire resilience, better team coordination around fire safety and inclusive evacuation design, we explore advances in fire safety. 

Living for today: From greener cities to off-site construction and residential rooftop solar systems, we unpack approaches reshaping how we build for the challenges of today.

Fire in focus

  • Are we ready for wildfire at our doorstep?
  • Burning for better outcomes
  • Coordinating fire safety design
  • Housing design for safe evacuation

Living for today

  • Can off-site construction deliver for Aotearoa New Zealand?
  • Rethinking the urban dream
  • Solar systems are gaining traction

Build Right

  • Bottom plate structural fixings to concrete slabs
  • Window head flashings

Design Right

  • Steps for a robust Alternative Solution
  • Weatherproofing cables through exterior cavity walls
  • Centrally fixed aluminium window and door joinery

Departments

  • Supporting bank customers to build better homes
  • What the biggest building consent overhaul means
  • Building capability for a construction sector circular economy
  • Can psychology help improve quality of construction?
  • AI sharpens tax hooks
  • Skills maintenance – retention money: part 2
  • Skills maintenance – being prepared for building inspections
  • A delivery system for quality and affordable homes
  • Existing solutions and limitations of generative AI for construction

Regulars

  • Spring foreword
  • Rust never sleeps
  • Powering homes, empowering our nation
  • Walking with the industry