Build 155: Achieving quality
Plus: Building exteriors
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Is it a quality defect or not? It can be hard to decide, but using these established guidelines and standards will help everyone to view work from the same starting point when checking for defects.
Why is quality so often elusive when it comes to our built environment? Build asked industry players, some with conflicting views, what hinders its delivery and what might change the game.
Designers take note. Builders are expected to deliver quality projects but can be handicapped if the drawings they work off are sketchy or incomplete. BRANZ has been investigating the quality.
Construction can’t be perfect all the time, so allowable tolerances have been defined to maintain quality. Here are some of the key tolerances you should work to in order to ensure quality buildings.
Think hard and check before substituting one building product for another. Get it wrong and you could be creating quality issues and have trouble getting a Code Compliance Certificate.
The New Zealand Certified Builders Association (NZCB) is proactively working to reduce defects through initiatives such as a mobile demonstration unit to show builders how to build common construction details correctly.
Over the last 25 years, BRANZ has been instrumental in developing robust methods and undertaking rigorous testing to support the local manufacture of quality insulating glass units.