Resilience costs
As the focus turns to improving resilience, BRANZ has assessed the costs of some common measures to make houses more resilient.
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Steel trends in buildings
By Ian Page – 1 February 2009, Build 110, Feature article
Steel is used in many buildings, but for which components in which types of buildings, and what is the outlook for its future use?
Cladding types in new buildings
By Ian Page – 1 December 2008, Build 109, Feature article
The building materials used in roof and wall claddings continue to change over time. What are the current trends?
What’s hot and what’s not
By Matthew Curtis – 1 December 2014, Build 145, Feature article
Steel’s popularity as a structural element is rising, and there’s scope for more use of prefabrication. These are two of the trends BRANZ has identified for commercial building construction.
Costly to delay repairs
By Ian Page – 1 June 2017, Build 160, Feature article
The cost of maintaining a home can be high, but delaying essential work means it will cost much more in the long term. There’s evidence many properties aren’t being kept up to scratch.
Cladding costs over a lifetime
By Nick Brunsdon – 1 December 2017, Build 163
Designers and builders enjoy a broad and ever-increasing range of cladding options for walls and roofs. While appearance is a prime consideration, it is useful to consider the upfront and lifetime costs.
Building Act considers life cycle costs
By Ian Page – 1 August 2007, Build 101, Feature article
Life cycle costing allows the costs of different design and material options to be compared over the life of a building. It is now used as part of the assessment of proposed changes to building regulations.
Designing and building affordable houses
By Lindsay Wood – 1 June 2008, Build 106, Feature article
The affordability debate often focuses on policy and the demand-end responses, but for the building industry, the more important questions may be what should affordable houses be like, and how can we lower the building cost?
What's hot and not in materials
By Matthew Curtis – 1 February 2020, Build 176, Feature article
More homeowners are choosing sheet metal roofs, and timber weatherboards have maintained a steady 60% of the market, according to recent data on materials choice for new housing.
