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 ]
A new guidance document for barriers will be published by the Department shortly and the current Acceptable Solution for timber barriers, B1/AS2, will be discontinued on 31 January 2012.
The guidance document incorporates loadings from AS/NZS 1170, Structural Design Actions, [ More ] [ Read More ]
Every once in a while a product or technology comes along which is a game changer – think the microwave oven, the iPod or iPhone, e-book readers or the world wide web itself.
Timber engineering expert Ario Ceccotti from Florence [ More ] [ Read More ]
Kiwi timber ingenuity came to the party for the interior fit-out of the new Novotel hotel at Auckland International Airport, where foiling background noise from jumbo jets and other aircraft was one of the project’s priorities.
The $65 million 263-room hotel, [ More ] [ Read More ]
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