Prefab is a way to create innovative high-quality buildings on time and within budget. Prefab is short for prefabrication.

PrefabNZ is facilitating the country’s first Housing Innovation Park in Canterbury, to showcase prefabricated homes that are high-quality and sustainably designed using permanent materials and can be assembled quickly at site to provide replacement housing for those who have lost homes in the earthquakes.

Have you ever wanted to take your SketchUp models on the go?

Over the past few years the paint industry has been working to reduce the level of VOCs in paint products. 

A simpler system for timber treatment has recently been introduced by the Department of Building and Housing and is summarised in a Quick Guide to Timber Treatment for Enclosed Framing.

eboss are assisting Nat Cheshire from Cheshire Architects for Cooper & Company's re-fit of Australis Nathan's ground floor in Britomart.

Transparent and semi-transparent coatings on timbers do not have the same life cycle as opaque coatings.

Outside Canterbury, the general tenor of economic information during the past month has been encouraging.

Statistics NZ have released information on the number of building consents issued in March 2011.