By David Hindley
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1 October 2022, Build 192, Feature article
There is more to resilience than just ensuring buildings are better able to cope with floods or earthquakes. It can also be applied to communities and individual businesses. Understanding resilience in all its forms can save time, money and stress for building firms, building owners and the country as a whole.
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By Amber Ruckes, Savannah Brown
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1 June 2021, Build 184, Feature article
A project is establishing a database of wharenui to help identify the possibility of creating seismic strengthening practices suitable for wharenui and their whānau as a part of developing the Earthquake-prone Buildings Act.
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By Maria Grace
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1 August 2022, Build 191
After the Canterbury earthquakes, regulations governing foundations changed. Initially only for the Canterbury region, they were later rolled out around New Zealand. What are the changes and what do they mean?
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By Dael Climo
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1 April 2016, Build 153, Feature article
Leading thinkers from science and government have joined forces to start developing ways to manage the risk to our built environment and communities from natural hazards.
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By Sophie Horsfall, Shannon Abeling, Helen Ferner, Hugh Cowan, Charlotte Brown
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1 October 2022, Build 192, Feature article
New social science research aims to fill the gaps in our understanding of what Kiwis believe is important for seismic resilience and where co-benefits may align with other building priorities.
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By Temitope Egbelakin, Professor Suzanne Wilkinson
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1 April 2014, Build 141, Feature article
Buildings with insufficient seismic strength are key contributors to deaths and building losses. Better information is needed for owners and potential buyers on a property’s seismic risk, a research programme finds.
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By Ian Page
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1 April 2016, Build 153, Feature article
BRANZ has done a lot of work on the costs and benefits of mitigating common natural hazards in housing. While some options are cost-effective, others hardly justify the expenditure.
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By Jenny Stein
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1 October 2022, Build 192, Feature article
Whānau-isation, an innovative community-driven approach to strengthening earthquake-prone marae safely and cost-effectively, has been conceived in a Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Challenge pilot project.
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By Nick Helm
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1 June 2015, Build 148, Feature article
A proposed new Code of practice aims to improve the seismic performance of suspended ceilings. This follows the surprisingly poor performance of many non-structural building components in recent earthquakes.
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1 April 2014, Build 141
A research project to help improve the resilience of the types of homes that performed poorly in the Christchurch earthquakes has been launched.
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