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NZS 3604. NZS 3604 Timber-framed buildings is a New Zealand technical standard which sets out specifications and methods for designing and constructing light timber-framed houses and other low-rise buildings. When read together with the amendments in Building Code acceptable solution B1/AS1, it allows the construction of code-compliant ...
The leaky homes crisis is an ongoing construction and legal crisis in New Zealand concerning timber-framed homes built from 1988 to 2004 that were not fully weather-tight. The problems often include the decay of timber framing which, in extreme cases, have made buildings structurally unsound. Some buildings have become unhealthy to live in due ...
When records began in 1974, new homes in New Zealand had an average floor area of 120 m 2 (1,290 sq ft). Average new home sizes rose to peak at 200 m 2 (2,150 sq ft) in 2010, before falling to 158 m 2 (1,700 sq ft) in 2019. [17] In 1966 the New Zealand Encyclopedia recognised seven basic designs of New Zealand houses. [18]
41 Wyndham Street and 1 St Patricks Square. 97. Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Hall. Historic Place Category 1. 71 Khyber Pass Road and 2–10 Burleigh Street, Grafton. 98. St Matthew's-in-the-City Church (Anglican) Historic Place Category 1. 132–134 Hobson St, 187 Federal St and Wellesley St West.
International Code Council. The International Code Council ( ICC) is an American nonprofit standards organization, sponsored by the building trades, which was founded in 1994 through the merger of three regional model code organizations in the American construction industry. [ 1] The organization creates the International Building Code (IBC), a ...
The Real Estate Authority (REA), formerly the Real Estate Agents Authority (REAA), is the New Zealand Crown entity responsible for the regulation of the New Zealand real estate industry as well as the agents within it. [4]
The current New Zealand building code requires a building with a 50-year design life to withstand predicted loads of a 500-year event. Initial reports by GNS Science suggested that ground motion "considerably exceeded even 2500-year design motions", [38] beyond maximum considered events (MCE). [23]
The property bubble in New Zealand is a major national economic and social issue. Since the early 1990s, house prices in New Zealand have risen considerably faster than incomes, [ 1] putting increasing pressure on public housing providers as fewer households have access to housing on the private market.