Stairs Module: Handrails

This is a lighter version of LCAQuick that allows you to sort and format your data correctly but does not contain the functionality to calculate environmental impacts. Once your data is in the correct format, you can copy and paste it into the full version of LCAQuickV3.6, which will then calculate the environmental impacts.

Please ensure that you are using Microsoft Excel from 2016 or later.

LCAQuick is a free tool developed by BRANZ that helps architects, designers and structural engineers make sustainable design decisions. It evaluates the carbon footprint and other environmental impacts of a building design. It can be used by anyone with an interest to understand the environmental impacts of buildings across the life cycle.

Specifying and fixing internal linings demands a high degree of skill to ensure that the finished installation will perform in the environment the internal linings are installed in and meet the end user's expectations. There is a wide range of internal lining materials available, and there is often a gap between what is expected of particular lining materials and what is achievable given the construction methods being used. 

This guide covers most current wall and ceiling lining applications including lining selection, support systems and fixings. It sets out the requirements and installation processes for all aspects of lining installtion so that realistic finish quality levels can be set and the completed installation achieves the expected quality level. It does not cover the selection and installation of suspended ceiling systems. 

The audience is designers and specifiers, builders, partition installers, lining installers, stopping contractors, building officials, building owners and students of design and construction.

This Microsoft Excel (.xlxs) 25MB download of BRANZ House Insulation Guide 6th edition is for MAC users.

Updates:

• A new 'Summary' sheet has been added to the tool
• An error has been repaired where the R-value for plain slab floors was higher than it should have been when adding floor topper insulation
• Improvements to the 'Correction for reduced perimeter insulation' section of the 'Roof spaces' sheet

The guide is now in two parts:

• The tables of construction R-values for common construction options for compliance under H1/AS1 and H1/VM1 5th edition
• The accompanying House Insulation Guide text [PDF] for guidance on insulation to meet or exceed H1 AS/1 and H1/VM1 5th edition.

The webinar covers:

• What the H1 Calculation method is and when to use it
• Reference houses and how these are calculated
• The advantages, disadvantages and limitations of the calculation method
• Tricks + tips how to make it useful
• How to use and verify the output.

• Please note: that access to this webstream will expire after 1 month.

This seminar provides an insight into how BRANZ research priorities are determined as well completed research, research for coming year, National Science Challenges and overseas research.

Please note that access to this recorded seminar will expire 1 month after purchase.