This month I discuss multi-storey construction + we're giving you another chance to WIN with the Medium Quick-Fire Quiz.

For housing design and construction is there such a strong link between passive thermal performance, (before heating & cooling appliances are activated), and the embodied carbon content of the dwelling so that these two important design objectives must be locked together in a single analysis?

Are we moving in a direction where continuing and narrowing analysis of evermore finer detail of particular aspects of building elements is assumed to automatically leads to better results?

This month I discuss inter-tenancy walls + we're giving you another chance to WIN with the Medium Quick-Fire Quiz.

This month I discuss roof garden design + we're giving you another chance to WIN with the Medium Quick-Fire Quiz.

This month I discuss brick façades + we're giving you another chance to WIN with the Medium Quick-Fire Quiz.

While concrete floors on grade are a common choice for new homes, there are negative characteristics which only become evident in extraordinary circumstances, at which times the outcomes are usually disastrous.

This month I discuss lift design + we're giving you another chance to WIN with the Medium Quick-Fire Quiz!

Balconies give life not only to the occupants but to the building facade as well.

I have full sympathy for the households and businesses affected by the recent floods in the upper and eastern North Island. I wish them well for the difficult and long task of recovery which must not be left to them alone. It is up to, and has been so for many decades, the Politicians and Built Environment Professionals to take our heads out of the sand and diligently look to a different long-term.