H1 compliance changes - key challenges
In this free 20-minute module, you’ll learn about some of the key challenges to achieving or exceeding the new performance requirements to comply with H1 Energy efficiency. The focus is on H1/AS1 and H1/VM1 5th edition amendment 1.
Topics include:
- What are construction R-values?
- Roofs – sloping and skillion
- Floors – underslab heating and slabs with attached unconditioned spaces
- Windows – compliance and avoid overheating
- Doors – compliance and opaque doors
- Walls – compliance and improved performance
- Secondary insulation – improve performance for walls and roofs
Webinar: The Carbon Challenge - Compliance and calculating building carbon footprints
We look at the inter-related topics of compliance and how to calculate carbon footprints.
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Please note: that access to this webstream will expire after 1 month.
Webinar: Fire 101: Overview of fire safety compliance in simple buildings
Seminar: Compliance paths
This seminar covers compliance paths for consenting Alternative Solutions. It explains:
- what constitutes an Alternative Solution
- how compliance can be demonstrated
- the level of detail and supporting information required
- the use of testing, comparison with an Acceptable Solution, expert opinion, product certification and producer statements in support of compliance
- options to follow when using past in-service history to show compliance with current Code requirements
- options for assessing an Alternative Solution when received.
Please note that access to this recorded seminar will expire 1 month after purchase.
Building Basics: Building Code compliance
Making sure that buildings comply with the New Zealand Building Code is a key part of design and construction, yet the process of demonstrating this can be an area of frustration. Building consent applications that don't have enough information that is relevant to the proposed work can cause delays and additional cost to a project.
This book has a focus on residential buildings and covers the steps a designer needs to follow to gather the documentation required and the different options to prove compliance with the performance requirements of the Code.