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Build Magazine — 175

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Changing face of building: The New Zealand building industry is transforming as prefabrication, medium-density housing and new building technologies overtake old systems and techniques. 

Tech matters: As with pretty much every aspect of our lives, technology is changing the construction industry for the better. It’s providing opportunities to make our cities smarter and our workers safer and transforming the methods and materials used.

Changing face of building

  • Building in a QA process
  • Medium-density living
  • Over 65s changing building
  • Plan to transform
  • Plenty of work in the pipeline
  • Technical issues in MDH
  • What the Census shows
  • X-Frame and the circular economy

Tech matters

  • BRANZ’s digital journey
  • Christchurch gets smart
  • Innovative and disruptive
  • Putting reality into inductions

Build Right

  • Retrofitting insulation

Design Right

  • Securing buildings against uplift
  • Internal gutters and flow capacity

Departments

  • Backing offsite building
  • A view from the board
  • Keeping your records straight
  • Good-practice procurement
  • Tackling mental health
  • Stay well watered
  • Working safely on prefab framing
  • Property investment decisions
  • People power can reduce emissions
  • Perspectives on engineered wood products
  • What blockchain really means

Regulars

  • Farewell 2019
  • The view from abroad