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Becoming resilient

By David Hindley 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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The challenge

By Dael Climo 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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Preparing for natural hazards

By Ian Page 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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Saving earthquake-prone marae

By Jenny Stein 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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Suspended ceilings

By Nick Helm 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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