Bad acting
The latest attempt to provide a more robust regulatory framework for the construction industry is the Building Amendment Act 2013.
The amendment is...
DIY porn
Architect Don Bunting notes that DIY stores are based on the principle that you get the customer in looking for one item and have...
Delivering BIM
It’s been said that a good idea is one that can be encapsulated in 10 words or less. The challenge of delivering Building Information...
Déjà Vu again
It was Yogi Berra, former manager of the New York Yankees baseball team, who first said: It’s like déjà vu all over again —...
Thinking Big
Kingsley Amis was once quoted as saying: “If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.” What he meant was that you...
Where did we go wrong?
Too many members of the construction industry don’t understand how the Building Code works, and that is a real concern. I noticed a...
Softly, softly
Think of Barcelona, and other than the 1992 Olympic Games (especially the theme song performed by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé) most first-time visitors...
Material evidence
During my time at the Auckland School of Architecture in the 1960s, three of the key study topics were Building Materials, Building Construction and...
Catching cold
Every time I catch a cold I wonder why science has failed so miserably to find a cure, or even an effective palliative, to...
Risky business
At this year’s England/New Zealand one-day cricket match in Auckland a man dressed as a rabbit was ejected from the ground for encouraging spectators...