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From Windows to Warm Roofs: How Can We Make the New Insulation Standards Work?

This month I look at how we can raise our insulation game when it comes to window and roof design + we have a new round of the Medium Quick-Fire Quiz. 

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6 June 2012

EBOSS Survey Winners Announced

New Zealand's biggest online specifier survey was conducted by EBOSS over the month of May, with a total of 1,322 respondents.

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31 May 2012

Cardboard Pop-up Office Cubicles

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

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30 May 2012

Apartments Help Hold Consent Numbers

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.

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30 May 2012

Earthquake Resistance in Seismic Times

You are warmly invited to the NZ Wood PrefabNZ Wellington Event on Tuesday 12th June (12.30-5pm). This event is brought to you by NZ Wood and hosted by the College of Creative Arts (CoCA) at Massey University, Wellington.

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16 May 2012

HIVE Opens to Thousands at Canterbury Agricultural Park

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

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20 April 2012

Getting Colour Right (When There Are 5,000 to Choose From!)

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

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5 April 2012

Understanding Opacity and the "Hiding Power" of Paints

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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.

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27 February 2012

Prefab Pluses

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30 January 2012

Paint and Waterways Pollution

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

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24 January 2012

Greenwash in the Paint Industry

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

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