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.

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.

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.

Strong leadership, development funding and less finger-pointing are needed to solve the affordable housing issue in New Zealand.

Looking around the Asia Pacific region we can see examples of how growing cities, like Auckland, need better infrastructure and more vertical building forms.

Large-scale can mean either a few large buildings, or several medium ones, or many small buildings — all apply to prefabrication in New Zealand, as was discussed at the PrefabNZ CoLab recently.

Could the Christchurch Concision factory's precision house manufacturing be a possible key to unlocking the affordable housing crisis?

First Light Studio have been commended for their 'innovative and intensive' universally accessible bathroom pod, designed specifically for multi-unit residential applications.

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.

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