Treating service penetrations correctly can get complicated quickly. Whilst services trades are masters at their key profession, it is all too common that they haven’t undergone any formal training on the passive fire aspects of the job site.

While recent conversation has centred on house prices peaking, the construction costs for new homes are not expected to slow down any time soon.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment released the biggest energy efficiency changes to the Building Code in more than a decade on 29 November 2021.

EBOSS and the BIM Acceleration Committee are pleased to announce the findings of the eighth year of the BIM Benchmark Survey. In this blog post I share some of the biggest changes we've seen from 2014 to 2021. 

In this blog post I look at a common product where there is a range of product information available to compare approaches — flexible wall underlays. 

Specifying a shower area and the considerations around structure.

A look at the key barriers to achieving compliant fire ratings on large buildings — particularly high-rise apartments — in today’s construction climate and an alternative method to overcome these.

With a growing proportion of our new housing being constructed as medium-density dwellings, this former niche market is rapidly expanding to take in purchasers and occupiers whose primary experience is with the standalone residences they grew up in. This new form of living brings with it a need for a significant degree of re-setting of expectations, both desirable and undesirable.

Auckland Council has now streamlined their process for assessing product substitutions to help builders deal with supply chain issues. 

With supply delays, product shortages and price increases affecting the industry, do we need to change our approach to managing pricing for upcoming projects?