LBP Skills Maintenance, June 2024 — for brick and block, carpentry, external plastering, foundations, and roofing licence holders | When completing and issuing records of work (RoWs), licensed building practitioners (LBPs) have certain obligations.

LBP Skills Maintenance, April 2024 — for all LBP's | Starting your own business can be a daunting task and often we learn on the job. You’re confident on the tools and know you can do a great job on-site, but ensuring your business practices are up to scratch is just as important for building a successful business.

Are we driving blindly forward with our eyes firmly focussed on the view in the rear vision mirror? Our energy future is not going to be as it has been in the past.

Fiona Caulfield, Declare Manager New Zealand, looks at how Declare labels can help us understand how safe a building product is to human and environmental health.

This month I look at using aerated autoclaved concrete for intertenancy walls + we have a new round of the Medium Quick-Fire Quiz. 

Skills maintenance, April 2024 — for all LBPs | What you need to know when repairing flood damaged buildings and carrying out work under the schedule 1 exemptions of the Building Act.

While it has been sensible for the former use of single glazing in house windows to be replaced with double-glazing, it now appears that there is the beginning of a move for new housing to be fitted with triple-glazing. Why?

With new roofing insulation requirements, the architectural community has had to get used to some radically changed details for roofs.

This month I look at a winning MDH project and share a controversial idea that only those who live in MDH should be able to design MDH + we're giving you another chance to WIN with the Medium Quick-Fire Quiz.

When it is being reported that Terrace Housing has overheating problems, is it just the direct experience of individuals in particular buildings who don’t recall all the Terraces which are not a problem, or is there a trend with current materials and regulations which are not as appropriate as they could be?