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News and updates on New Zealand architectural products.

November 2025

Designing for Long-Term Safety and Performance in Interior Flooring

With Polysafe, Polyflor provides solutions that integrate durability, compliance, hygiene and design, delivering confident specification outcomes in the spaces that need them most.

Smart, Touch-Free Hand Drying Built for High-Hygiene Spaces

Smart, Touch-Free Hand Drying Built for High-Hygiene Spaces

Hand hygiene doesn’t stop at washing, drying matters too. Mitsubishi Electric Jet Towel Hand Dryers are touch-free, fast, and NSF-certified for sanitary performance, making them ideal for hospitals, healthcare, and aged care projects. Available in Slim and Smart models with White, Silver, or Dark Grey finishes, Jet Towels deliver hygiene, efficiency, and design flexibility.

Infection Prevention and Control: Selecting the Right Flooring for Healthcare

Infection Prevention and Control: Selecting the Right Flooring for Healthcare

The COVID-19 crisis was a powerful reminder of how infection prevention and control (IPC) strategies are essential in healthcare and aged-care environments to stop the development of infections and antimicrobial resistance. It highlighted the importance of effective cleaning protocols for preventing transmission.

Free SuperSlab CodeMark Compliance Confirmation via Allied Concrete’s DesignHub Service

Free SuperSlab CodeMark Compliance Confirmation via Allied Concrete’s DesignHub Service

Unsure whether your SuperSlab foundation design meets CodeMark requirements? Use DesignHub by Allied Concrete for a free CodeMark compliance confirmation to help streamline building consent.

Prolam Exposed Truss Design Solutions

Prolam Exposed Truss Design Solutions

Prolam’s streamlined process from design to manufacture and supply makes integrating Exposed Trusses into residential and commercial building designs simple, fast and cost-effective.

Access All Areas: Blum’s Expanded Showroom Reveals New Possibilities Around the Home

Access All Areas: Blum’s Expanded Showroom Reveals New Possibilities Around the Home

A stunning, renovated space, the 482m² Blum showroom is ready for your visit.

Dyson Announces the Return of an Icon: The Dyson Airblade dB Hand Dryer

Dyson Announces the Return of an Icon: The Dyson Airblade dB Hand Dryer

The Dyson Airblade dB hand dryer is one of the most hygienic options available, thanks to its touch-free operation, HEPA filtration, and rapid drying technology.

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark: Painting CoreClad Primed Black

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark: Painting CoreClad Primed Black

IBuilt CoreClad Primed in black gives architects a high-strength plywood cladding option that is pre-primed for optimum coverage and opacity.

Inclusive Bathroom Fixtures with Design-Led Appeal

Inclusive Bathroom Fixtures with Design-Led Appeal

The Mecca Care range by Nero Tapware is ideally suited to high-end residential interiors where accessibility must be achieved without compromising on visual quality.

Further NZ-Made Commercial Window Systems to Come in 2026

Further NZ-Made Commercial Window Systems to Come in 2026

APL’s commitment to designing products for the New Zealand market is being reinforced by current research and development for new ThermalHeart+ commercial systems.

Potter Interior Systems: Acoustic Ceiling Tiles Engineered for Medical Environments

Potter Interior Systems: Acoustic Ceiling Tiles Engineered for Medical Environments

Creating hygienic, high-performance environments is essential in healthcare design. From hospitals to aged care, every surface plays a role in infection control and acoustic comfort. Potter Interior Systems delivers ceiling solutions that meet these demands without compromising on performance or aesthetics.

Robust and Secure Drainage Solutions for Commercial and High-Demand Facilities

Robust and Secure Drainage Solutions for Commercial and High-Demand Facilities

JESANI’s stainless steel drainage systems are purpose-built for commercial and high-demand facilities where durability, hygiene, and tamper resistance are non-negotiable.

Fenta Ceiling Tiles: UV-Coated, Impervious Ceiling Tiles

Fenta Ceiling Tiles: UV-Coated, Impervious Ceiling Tiles

A practical ceiling finish for hygiene-critical spaces, Fenta Ceiling Tiles combine a fibre-cement core with an ultra-hard UV-cured coating to create a smooth, impervious surface that cleans easily and stands up to routine use.

Airtight and Antimicrobial Access Hatches Maintain Hygiene Across Healthcare and Research Facilities

Airtight and Antimicrobial Access Hatches Maintain Hygiene Across Healthcare and Research Facilities

Como hatches ensure compliance with hygiene standards while enabling easy access to services above the ceiling for maintenance.

Prefinished Wall Linings and Ceiling Tiles with Tested Antimicrobial Performance for Education, Healthcare and Food Prep Areas

Prefinished Wall Linings and Ceiling Tiles with Tested Antimicrobial Performance for Education, Healthcare and Food Prep Areas

Climateline wall linings and Ecotile ceiling tiles feature a Biocote antimicrobial additive incorporated into the powder coating, resulting in durable, non-porous, easy to clean surfaces that actively reduce bacterial growth.

Protect Your Reputation with Proven Watertight Solutions

Protect Your Reputation with Proven Watertight Solutions

Aquaknight’s stainless steel membrane clamping range provides exceptional strength, backed by WSP Laboratories deflection tests for trusted peace of mind. 

Streamline Residential Consent with Futurebuild LVL’s Truss and Lintel Layouts Service

Streamline Residential Consent with Futurebuild LVL’s Truss and Lintel Layouts Service

The RDS Truss & Lintel Layouts service provides Buildable Consent Layouts, helping architects and designers reduce complexity and fast-track the process.

Fire Stopping Guidance Documents for KOROK Wall Systems

Fire Stopping Guidance Documents for KOROK Wall Systems

KOROK's firestop documents, developed with RYANFIRE, Hilti, and Promat, provide tested and NZBC-compliant solutions for service penetrations in KOROK fire-rated wall systems.

Protect Your Project from Condensation Liability

Protect Your Project from Condensation Liability

Condensation in roof cavities is one of the most widespread and costly issues in New Zealand buildings. It silently compromises structural integrity, fosters mould growth, and leads to expensive call-backs and reputational damage for architects, builders, and roofers.

A Resilient and Flexible Interior Waterproofing Membrane That’s Tile-Ready in 24 Hours

A Resilient and Flexible Interior Waterproofing Membrane That’s Tile-Ready in 24 Hours

Bostik Dampfix Gold Interior is a water-based wet area waterproofing membrane with excellent flexibility to accommodate substrate movement, and high resistance to detergents and bleaches to ensure long-term durability. 

Designing for Hygiene and Wellbeing in Healthcare and Aged Care

Designing for Hygiene and Wellbeing in Healthcare and Aged Care

Staron Solid Surfaces deliver proven performance, combining seamless hygiene, design flexibility, and long-term durability for environments that prioritise wellbeing.

Southland Maple Beech: New Zealand’s FSC Certified Indigenous Timber

Southland Maple Beech: New Zealand’s FSC Certified Indigenous Timber

Grown and harvested in the Western South of the South Island, Southland Maple Beech is beloved for its beauty and its deep-rooted and significant connection to local history.

Working at Height: How to Prevent Falls on New Zealand PV Roofs

Working at Height: How to Prevent Falls on New Zealand PV Roofs

Discover how to improve safety and efficiency in rooftop photovoltaic installations with smart, non-invasive fall protection systems tailored for New Zealand conditions.

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