The HIVE – Home Innovation Village, facilitated by PrefabNZ, opened in April to a tremendous response from the Christchurch community.

Paint companies provide consumers and specifiers with a number of different tools to help with colour selection.

One of the functions of paint is to obliterate whatever you are painting, whether it be old patterned wallpaper, stains, or the unloved colour of a previous tenant.

Some people do not realise that storm water drains (the ones on the road edge) go straight to local waterways or the ocean.

In 2008 the New Zealand Commerce Commission issued a press release on "greenwashing".

The most common question I am asked by the specifier is that of durability. 'How long will your product last in the environment in question?' 

Prefab is a way to create innovative high-quality buildings on time and within budget. Prefab is short for prefabrication.

PrefabNZ is facilitating the country’s first Housing Innovation Park in Canterbury, to showcase prefabricated homes that are high-quality and sustainably designed using permanent materials and can be assembled quickly at site to provide replacement housing for those who have lost homes in the earthquakes.