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Performance-based specifications and design intention drawings

By Stephen Sargent 1 February 2007, Build 98, Feature article

New Zealand has a building regime that is performance based rather than prescriptive. An adjunct to this regime, most successfully used for complex buildings, is a ‘performance’ specification – where performance requirements are written into the specifications rather than details. The more prescriptive details come later in the process.

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Christchurch Women’s Hospital

By David Killick 1 February 2007, Build 98, Feature article

The proposed building practitioners’ licences will relate to the complexity of buildings worked on. The highest category, three, covers large or special-use buildings, such as hospitals. You can see why when looking at Christchurch’s new Women’s Hospital and the complex challenges met by the team putting it together.

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Spotlight on building categories

By Ian Page 1 February 2007, Build 98, Feature article

As licensing of building practioners approaches we focus on the categories of buildings being built now and how many people will be needed in the different licence classes in the future.

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