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Property Trends
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Green buildings aren’t just better for the environment and cheaper to run – there are also clear occupancy benefits for commercial property landlords and investors Colliers International’s latest monthly research report has found green buildings in Auckland and Wellington have higher occupancy rates than office properties in general. Continue →
Facilities Management
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New Zealand’s army of tradespeople who monitor, maintain and fix the billions of dollars of equipment that keeps offices, factories and shops open have become the new frontline in the advance of the Internet of Things (IoT) As the internet and smartphones become primary necessities over paper and landlines, trade services must embrace the next phase of business evolution in order to remain relevant in the market and to appear dependable, effective and cutting-edge for the modern customer. Continue →
Housing
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If the government wants to get anywhere close to delivering 100,000 homes in a decade, its primary focus should be encouraging the private sector to get the job done, rather than building significant numbers of houses itself, reckons James Kellow New Zealand Mortgages & Securities has more than $100m to invest and it is eager to support the government’s highly anticipated KiwiBuild programme. Continue →
Sponsored
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Being connected in the home is now about more than just an internet connection, instead the rise of “smart homes” is seeing buyers begin to actively look for developments that allow them to control their entire home from their devices. Continue →
Design
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BIG Partner Kai-Uwe Bergmann is coming to New Zealand in September to headline the Design Experience series and explore the climatic and cultural forces which are shaping global architecture Kai-Uwe is a partner at BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) a Copenhagen, New York and London-based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors From the scorching heat of the Arabian Desert to the unforgiving chill of the Finnish tundra, Kai-Uwe will examine the concept of “Hot to Cold” – how are cities and buildings adapting to climatic extremes? Continue →
Sponsored
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The New Zealand Institute of Building (NZIOB) has announced the winners of the 2018 New Zealand Building Industry Awards  The awards, which are in their 25th year, celebrate and recognise the professional excellence of individuals and teams in the building and construction process, rather than the project or completed structure. Continue →
Training & Management
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Virtual reality (VR) field trips are now being used to teach students about construction and leaky homes at the University of Auckland Business School, as the technology revolutionizes the property industry From this month, Bachelor of Property students in the stage one course “Introduction to Property” are being given Google Cardboard headsets – a low-cost virtual reality headset that resembles a cardboard Viewfinder from the 1980s, with a place to insert a smartphone. Continue →
Facilities Management
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Many commercial buildings around New Zealand are putting lives and property at risk because they don’t comply with fire safety standards, says John Lucas He became aware of this problem from insurers doing risk surveys and is leading an international seminar this month to highlight the issues and work on solutions. Continue →
Design
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Leading New Zealand architects Warren and Mahoney are taking on four of the world’s architecture heavyweights in a competition to design a new apartment and hotel development in central Auckland Melbourne-based property development company ICD Property has invited five architects, including renowned London-based firm Zaha Hadid, to create designs for a multi-storey hotel and apartment tower on Federal St. Continue →
Facilities Management
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Open-plan offices have taken off because of a desire to increase interaction and collaboration among workers, Libby Sander notes But an innovative new study has found that employees in open-plan offices spend 73% less time in face-to-face interactions while email and messaging use shot up by over 67%. Continue →
Facilities Management
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The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has published a handy guide to managing buildings in emergencies Managing buildings in an emergency describes the roles and responsibilities of central and local government and other agencies for managing buildings in an emergency using the 4Rs framework – Readiness, Response, Recovery and Reduction. Continue →
Housing
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Thirty top architecture, engineering and construction management students, one brief and just three days to design a Wellington-centric housing complex for all generations These were the ingredients for this week’s ArchEngBuild 2018 Challenge held at Victoria University of Wellington and the result was some truly future-thinking medium-density housing designs for the capital city. Continue →
Construction
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The forthcoming Asian Construction Forum is bringing the Kiwi and Asian building sectors together to foster collaboration and celebrate the contribution Asian construction companies are making to New Zealand   Asian companies contribute more than $7billion each year to New Zealand’s construction sector and are to helping us meet our demands for the large scale, quality construction and infrastructure projects the country needs, yet many of these businesses currently sit outside New Zealand’s traditional sector. Continue →
Industrial
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Australian logistics and operations specialist Logos has expanded into the New Zealand market, acquiring a 10-hectare site with plans to develop a NZ$200 million estate Logos’ latest acquisition, from Fletcher Concrete and Infrastructure Limited, is a 55,000sq m site in Auckland’s industrial suburb of Wiri, The Urban Developer reports. Continue →
Housing
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An Australian developer has come up with an innovative idea that could help ease New Zealand’s chronic housing shortage Impeded by an uninviting property tax landscape, the build-to-rent sector has been stagnant in Australia despite the increasing viability of the model as home ownership rates continue to plunge. Continue →
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