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Understanding insulation, warmth and moisture transport is key to building durable and healthy homes.

Insulating walls have the capacity to add thermal gain, adding significant heating and cooling capacity at no extra cost.

Aluminium suspension grid systems prove useful in environments with unique requirements such as hospital MRI rooms.

The most remarkable architectural legacy of the Canterbury earthquakes is the design community's realisation that engineered timber is a key material for innovative New Zealand buildings.

The structural integrity of Porotherm confined masonry walls meets clause B1 of the NZBC and has been further demonstrated through European standards for earthquake resistance.

Following changes to the installation requirements for internal partitions and sliding door systems, TRACKLOK has worked on simplifying the partition bracing process.

PIR insulation board is a multi-functional product that can be effectively installed in various areas of a build for high performance insulation.

Future design and construction businesses will be influenced by disruptive business models, such as mass customisation, but with everyone quite comfortable with the status quo, an extremely compelling argument must be offered in order to change.

The New Zealand Building Code clause H1 (Energy Efficiency) requires minimum levels of insulation only to the exterior of the inhabited areas of a house. Is this enough?

Because communication is one of the first experiences that take place in a restaurant, acoustics should also be one of the first considerations of function when designing the interior of a hospitality space.

A clear scope, well designed masterplan, building consent cohesion and coordinated infrastructure delivery are all needed to ensure that the government's latest housing plan succeeds.

While ventilation helps prevent unwanted humidity in the roof space, a comprehensive warm roof system can provide a more complete solution.

The challenge of creating airtightness for the high-speed, high-pressure renovations on TV3's The Block was given to us by Context Architects Ltd.

Buildings such as concert halls demonstrate how by using the shape of a space, you can start to control the acoustics well before the acoustic treatments have been applied.

In order to meet higher seismic requirements, a new block was developed by Wienerberger to be used in very high seismic zones in Europe.