The showcase Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology Arts & Media building scooped two major awards in the NZ Wood Timber Design Awards announced on Tuesday – commercial engineering and commercial architectural excellence.
The three-storey, seismically-protected timber structure was entirely built from [ More ] [ Read More ]
Key Themes – September 2011
The domestic economic recovery now slowly getting underway is starting to benefit the building sector. Residential building has been the worst affected part of the industry, with the number of new dwelling consents lodged in the [ More ] [ Read More ]
Read the original to see a full list of Gold reserve finalists.
National Gold Reserve finalists have been announced in the Registered Master Builders PlaceMakers 2011 House of the Year and RMB Commercial Project Awards.
The Gold Reserve medal winners [ More ] [ Read More ]
Christchurch’s multi-billion-dollar earthquake rebuild is putting a damper on construction for now as businesses assess the costs of the devastation and staff flock to Canterbury, creating a shortage elsewhere.
A construction sentiment survey from Davis Langdon, part of AECOM, says uncertainty [ More ] [ Read More ]
The Acceptable Solution B1/AS1 now references NZS 3604:2011, the latest version of this Standard which replaces the 1999 version.
NZS 3604 is used to design most homes and other low-rise timber-framed buildings in New Zealand.
Standards New Zealand updated the Standard to [ More ] [ Read More ]
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