Welcome to our website. BRANZ Group, comprising the Building Research Association of New Zealand Inc, and its wholly owned subsidiary BRANZ Ltd and its partly-owned subsidiaries, is owned and directed by New Zealand's building and construction industry.
Funded by the Building Research Levy, the Association is a significant investor in industry-good research and knowledge dissemination to the wider building and construction industry. This website brings you information on what we have achieved, and continue to achieve, through this Levy investment.
2008 ANNUAL REVIEW
The 2008 Annual Review was adopted at the AGM of the Association on 20 August 2008. You can download a copy here.
Cost structures in new NZ housing.
BRANZ Ltd has created a spreadsheet model which enables the effect of cost changes in any input such as land, materials, and labour costs to be assessed as a likely impact on the final $/sqm rate, as part of an analysis of this topic. Read the full report here.
News from Other Government Departments
Latest DBH Documents
DBH has issued a paper proposing that ‘restricted building work’, defined as
- The design and construction of the primary structure of a building and any structure that supports other elements of restricted building work.
- The design and construction of external moisture management systems.
- The design of fire safety systems or features, including the design work required to integrate a fire safety system with any other building system or feature
will be able to be done or supervised by licensed practitioners only. Submissions close on 11 September.
Current DBH Documents
The DBH website www.dbh.govt.nz has a range of documents available free for download by the industry and public. These include:
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