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By Faye Pearson-Green – 1 October 2022, Build 192
The current shortage of products means builders are increasingly turning to alternatives. This can be potentially problematic, and MBIE has recently released specific guidance on what products can be substituted for plasterboard.
By Guy Marriage – 1 October 2022, Build 192
Townhouses and apartment buildings are here to stay, but we need to design and build them to far higher standards than we do now. In part 1 of a new series looking at designing and building medium-density housing, we look at inter-tenancy walls.
By Guy Marriage – 1 December 2022, Build 193
Part 2 of this Build series on designing and building medium-density housing covers inter-tenancy floors. The most important consideration here is to eliminate penetrations into the inter-tenancy floor zone.
By Claire Tyler – 1 June 2022, Build 190
A new piece of legislation has made its way through Parliament that puts in place changes to the Unit Titles Act.
By David Hindley – 1 February 2022, Build 188
MBIE recently released energy efficiency changes to the Building Code to help make new homes and buildings warmer, drier and healthier. These include increased minimum insulation requirements for roofs, windows and floors.
By Rob Guild – 1 June 2022, Build 190, Feature article
Rob Guild, Principal Architect, Buchan, says that, as housing intensification in Aotearoa New Zealand increases, we should be looking to well-designed cities such as Melbourne to ensure we achieve quality and avoid poor design and urban amenity.
