Posts for Construction
NZ Embodied Carbon Database – an accessible tool
Finally, the day has come that New Zealand has an accessible carbon data repository. One that Joe Blogs can search, without being a scientist and even without creating an account.
The Carbon Impact of Building Demolition: A Closer Look
When a building is demolished and rebuilt, it results in what can be termed as ‘double emissions’. This is because two sets of construction materials are required – one for the original building and another for the new structure.
Embodied emissions within buildings
The Green Building Council did commission a report to explore the embodied carbon of New Zealand’s buildings and potential reduction potentials. Obviously, buildings may vary greatly in their embodied carbon but this is some average assumptions.
Horrible Hybrids – A reminder
Michael Braungart and William McDonough called them “horrible hybrids” in their 2002 book “Crade to Cradle”. Things that are fused together from different materials that cannot be separated and thus not recycled.
Kiwibuilds 100,000 homes progress
The average build numbers according to my article published in 2018 would have been ~30,000 homes by now. The actual stats are somewhat lower than that: 934 – yes: 934. Even if we would say that starting up is hard and the initial output would…
The Building Industry – we are not alone
NZ and USA – not only are we suing the same construction methods, but we seem to be having the same educational, societal and methodological issues. The reason for any labour shortage is different in NZ I believe but nevertheless we seem to be having…
Cheap and fast: Fletchers 100,000 new KiwiBuild homes
The KiwiBuild idea, Fletchers and the capacity issue, yet alone any sustainability.
Holzweg – NOT!
Lloyd Alter has written a nice article about the Stadthaus (another German name), a nine storey timber building in London, made from Austrian CLT. The article also has a few nice picture how the interior looks like in rough state and in finished state plus…
Water blaster – water injector?
NZ Building Code is primarily based on gravity drainage A good example of what you should normally not be doing with a New Zealand building: waterblasting it. Why? Because the NZ Building Code is primarily based on gravity drainage and deflection of water. Consumer NZ…
A not so typical day
It would appear a rather normal day, however when you look at it at the end of it, you discover that actually a lot happened and all for a better. As such I decided to once write a real blog – just something about me…