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Ensuring quality installations
By Alan Page – 1 April 2019, Build 171, Feature article
Following a review of passive fire installation works, a rigorous assessment process for applicators and installers has been established by the Canterbury District Health Board. This has lessons for other organisations to help improve installation quality.
Housing quality defects cost
By Michael Bealing, Laetitia Leroy de Morel – 1 August 2020, Build 179, Feature article
Eliminating quality defects in residential construction would boost productivity. In recent research, the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) quantified the benefit to our economy and households.
Black mags or better insulation?
By Trevor Pringle – 1 June 2019, Build 172, Feature article
Customers expect options with different prices and benefits when buying anything from cars to fridges. Why don’t we offer clients options to achieve a better-performing home? They can get many benefits for little extra cost.
Eliminating quality issues
By Chelydra Percy – 1 August 2020, Build 179
Slow to change
By Anne Duncan – 1 June 2018, Build 166, Feature article
Why don’t builders take full advantage of the latest technology and new products to improve the quality of their work? BRANZ took to the road asking the question and to see what help industry needs to change.
Raising the quality stakes
By Nick Hill – 1 August 2018, Build 167
Nick Hill, Chief Executive, Building Officials Institute of NZ (BOINZ), has some ideas about how industry participants could contribute towards improving building quality.
Independent design management
By Michael Nuth – 1 June 2022, Build 190, Feature article
Independent design managers are increasingly being brought in to oversee complex construction projects. A recent BRANZ study asked whether performance benchmarks need to be established for this currently unregulated field.
Nailing the fit
By Trevor Pringle – 1 June 2018, Build 166, Feature article
Builders shouldn’t make do with a poor fit as this can bring a range of problems. If the fit is less than perfect, what amount of variation can be tolerated before rework is required?
MBIE shaping change
By Anna Butler – 1 October 2018, Build 168, Feature article
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is taking a whole-of-system approach as it reviews how it manages and regulates the construction sector.
