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Managing wind effects
Bulletin 620 Managing wind effects around buildings describes how wind behaves and discusses ways in which the positive and negative effects of wind can be managed in site planning.
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THE CLIMATIC CONDITIONS and landforms in New Zealand make wind a signi cant environmental factor. Careful planning can provide protection from its less-desirable e ects and enhance positive e ects such as passive cooling with breezes around and through a building.
Good design should result in an energy-e cient building that
responds in a meaningful way to the natural environment. In many cases, the consideration of wind e ects and detailed landscape design is left until the end of a building project, but at this stage, the project budget is often stretched.
Thorough site analysis (such as wind directions and sun topography) and landscape design should be
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considered at the beginning of a project and not left until it is nished.
This bulletin replaces Bulletin 321
Reducing the impact of wind at building sites.
Details Available for $13.50 from the BRANZ Shop at www.branz.co.nz or call 0800 80 80 85.
MANAGING WIND EFFECTS AROUND BUILDINGS
Reducing the impact of wind at a site improves the micro-climate around the building, reduces wind loads on the structure, improves energy e ciency by reducing heating demands and gives an improved, safer living environment.
Wind impact can be reduced by the siting, layout and shape of buildings, planting, fences and screens and reshaping of land forms.
This bulletin replaces Bulletin 321
Reducing the impact of wind at building sites.
Site practices
Bulletin 621 Site practices provides an overview of good, workable site practices to be followed for domestic-scale building projects.
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THERE IS no one-size- ts-all way of running a safe and well organised site. What is necessary for a big site may be too formal and complex for a single house project. However, all companies need to ensure they have a documented record of their way of doing things so quality and safety standards are maintained.
Almost all sites and contracts have circumstances speci c to them, therefore all new work also requires site-speci c safety planning.
Topics in Bulletin 621 include:
● maintaining up-to-date current documentation on site
● safety on site
● lifting and craneage
● certi cation
● site security
● site facilities and on-site storage
● project planning and site sta meetings
● keeping records
● organising inspections.
It updates and replaces Bulletin 499 of the same name.
Details Available for $13.50 from the BRANZ Shop at www.branz.co.nz or call 0800 80 80 85.
SITE PRACTICES
There is no ‘one size ts all’ way of running a safe, well organised and successful site.
All companies need to ensure that they have a documented record of their way of doing things so quality and safety standards are maintained.
This bulletin provides an overview of good, workable site practices to be followed for domestic-scale building projects. It updates and replaces Bulletin 499 of the same name.
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