Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Tue, 04/10/2016 - 4:50pm
Jonathon Telfer of Telfers Roofing, Kerikeri is the winner of the 2016 RANZ Professionalism in Metal Tile Installation Award, sponsored by Metrotile.
He received the award at this year’s RANZ conference, held at SKYCITY Auckland Convention Centre, judge Des Cowperthwaite...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Tue, 04/10/2016 - 4:14pm
In the last issue of Scope we described how you can finally claim Greenstar points for use of steel in your building design without the requirement for post-consumer recycled content. After several years of discussion the new Mat-8 Steel v3.0.0, now requires as a pre-requisite that 90% of the...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Tue, 04/10/2016 - 10:35am
Mt. Gold Place, Wanaka
At the first meeting on site, between the client and architect, they could hardly see the lake view due to the dense vegetation. They had to climb to the roof of the architect’s car to see the potential outlook. It was breathtaking. The brief for...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 5:38pm
When presented with the opportunity to rebuild the home of an elderly woman after it was destroyed in the Canterbury earthquakes, Architectural Designer Peter Wynyard took a unique approach, using COLORSTEEL® to design an inspiring and contemporary home.
Peter Wynyard is the founding...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 5:34pm
Ten years after it was designed and built, Kaimata Retreat has brought architect Will Lewis of Lewis Architecture, Dunedin, yet more accolades with his joint-winning of the Colin Stanley People’s Choice Memorial Award at the 2014 ADNZ/ Resene Architectural Design Awards and the Highly Commended...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 5:29pm
Stonewood Homes picked up two prizes: the New Homes $350,000-$450,000 category in Manawatu-Wanganui and then went on to take out the region’s Registered Master Builders Supreme Award for the 2014 House of the Year. As a new home consultant for Stonewood Homes in Palmerston North, Kaye...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 5:21pm
It is easy when designing a building to leave the roof cladding until last; however, consideration should be made at the outset of design of the Kℓ pressure coefficient factors, which apply to roof cladding and the purlins at the periphery of all buildings.
Some engineers are now...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 5:00pm
When a winter storm with 150km/h winds hit a Whangarei home, sections of its asphalt shingle roof were blown off.
With only the plywood substrate left to protect the two-storey home, water began making its way through the joins in the plywood and into the home, damaging wall...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 4:56pm
New Zealand Metal Roofing Manufacturers (NZMRM), as does every industry that wants to survive, is continuously looking at the sustainability of their products and member companies. We have been operating a Sustainability Subcommittee since 2006, which looks at issues affecting the...
Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 4:51pm
When Mary and John Washer were designing their home on the Taranaki coastline, they wanted to do justice to the site and the sea views.
They also wanted something befitting the work they had put into their development of Tapuae Country Estate, where their home is on one of 30...
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