Source: Roger Shelton – BRANZ Senior Structural Engineer Build Magazine issue 141 – April/May 2014
The Canterbury earthquakes have firmly placed building resilience in the spotlight. As an industry, we did not perform as well as the public expected – how can we do better in the future?
Two of the most vital components […]
Tips and Tricks: No. 2, Domestic Hot Water Systems
Generally design professionals, in dealing with the NZBC clause H1, address issues relating to building thermal insulation.
Additionally, H1 also addresses issues of ventilation, lighting design and domestic hot water generation.
A pertinent aspect is the restriction imposed on the length of hot water piping between a domestic […]
Chris Hutching, Building Innovation NZ Autumn 2014
Construction analyst BIS Shrapnel is predicting a construction boom bigger than anything seem before in New Zealand.
The Canterbury rebuild and rebound in the Auckland housing sector is expected to help drive the building sector to a new peak by year ending March 2016.
Remediation on leaky building will add […]
Tips and Tricks: No. 1, Carpark Ventilation Systems
When designing for a mechanical ventilation system, engineers follow the requirements of the NZ Building Code which stipulates AS1668 as an acceptable solution. AS1668 dictates the use of supply or extract air ducting or both with stringent requirements on the placement of supply and extract air grilles […]
Source: Marta Steeman – The Press, 24 March 2014 – Canterbury Boom
Soaring retail spending due to sales in hardware, building and garden supplies.
The Christchurch rebuild has sparked a growth spurt in retail spending with big sales of building supplies, garden supplies and hardware.
Canterbury spending is growing three times faster than the rest of the […]
Source: Architecture Now, March 2014
‘Whanau’, a 228m2 family home designed by Jessop Architects has been chosen as a finalist in the Global Passive House Award 2014 to be announced in Aachen, Germany in April. The project is one of four finalists in the single-family home category.
Of the 121 projects submitted, 92 were judged to be […]
Source: Anne Gibson – NZ Herald, 28 March 2014
Factory-building could cut $47,000 off each new home built in factories under Labour’s planned KiwiBuild 100,000-house scheme, an opposition spokesman says.
Phil Twyford is addressing the Prefabrication NZ Conference in Auckland this morning and said a new report showed off-site house prefabrication could save thousands per house.
Value […]
Passive Fire Protection
Restricting a fire to its area of origin has huge benefit in reducing fire and smoke damage minimizing business interruption and protects occupants in other areas allowing them more time to escape.
Fires typically spread by convection, conduction or radiation of heat energy.
Containing the fire and its products (smoke and gases) to within […]
Fire Safety Engineering Design
One of the significant concerns with fire safety engineering design practice in New Zealand has been poor fire design documentation. This has led to uncertainty about how to incorporate fire design into plans and specifications, and how the designs have been justified. This problem was identified by the Fire Engineering Task […]
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