Posts for building

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.

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.

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.

It’s that time of the year again – ground hog day – another global leader meeting to tackle climate change. Or to talk about tackling climate change. Do whatever you can – at home or work, in your job, in your projects. It’s up to…

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.

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…

When I look what’s happening and is most discussed in the building industry new at the moment, the headline above sums it all up. Leaky buildings, either from exterior or interior, are all too common. They happen due to a combination of wrong materials at…

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…

it just prevents you from importing and using a good product that would otherwise advance technology in the country, make the standard of living cheaper and better, just to protect national companies financial interests. Because let’s face it: Why else would you have to have…

The KiwiBuild idea, Fletchers and the capacity issue, yet alone any sustainability.