UK-based Duke Studios has created ten studio offices constructed from a building material that's strong yet fully sustainable and recyclable.

Residential building consents are up from 2011 levels, however March's growth is tempered with a reduction in consents in April, even as demand increased for new housing in the country's biggest city, Auckland.

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?' 

Have you ever wanted to take your SketchUp models on the go?

Over the past few years the paint industry has been working to reduce the level of VOCs in paint products. 

A simpler system for timber treatment has recently been introduced by the Department of Building and Housing and is summarised in a Quick Guide to Timber Treatment for Enclosed Framing.