In case you missed our Masterspec NOTES at the beginning of the month, here is a list with reference links for the new Product Partner work sections published for March 2021.

You may be experiencing some problems accessing Standards over the coming days as they are making significant updates to their website. We are aware of this and are monitoring their site to ensure we can restore reliable access as soon as they have completed their update. We thank you for your patience.

Maintaining an unobstructed ventilated drained cavity behind cladding on multi-unit/multi-storey residential or commercial buildings can be made complicated by inter-storey fire spread requirements (NZBC C/AS2, Cavity Barriers 5.8.5). Read here for possible solutions...

About 20% of New Zealand building fires are related to electrical systems or devices. So is there anything that could help in new builds and retrofits? Yes, AFDDs. Find out more…

New Zealand's main standard for the design and construction of timber-framed buildings, NZS 3604:2011 Timber-framed buildings, is being revised, however it is not expected to be delivered until 2023. In the meantime the following Index has been published detailing the specific areas to be looked at as part of the revision process.

In case you missed our Masterspec NOTES at the beginning of the month, here is a list with reference links for the new Product Partner work sections published for February 2021.

In case you missed our Masterspec NOTES at the beginning of the month, here is a list with reference links for the new Product Partner work sections published for January 2021.

Masterspec and SCNZ are delighted to announce a new industry partnership to support the structural steel design, fabrication and erection in the New Zealand construction industry. The two organisations reached a Memorandum of Understanding to foster technical excellence, promote best practice methods and develop tools for the adoption of requirements under the New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 5131 Structural Steelwork – Fabrication and Erection.

November 2020 brought a number of updates to the Building Code, including a new Acceptable Solution in the form of E1/AS2 in its newest version, Amendment 11. Designers and specifiers now have the opportunity to use AS/NZS 3500.3 (with modifications) as an Acceptable Solution for stormwater drainage systems. In addition to amendments to various clauses throughout E1/VM1 and E1/AS1, rainfall intensity data has been comprehensively revised.

The Green Star Technical Manual v3.2 has been superseded by Green Star Design and As Built NZ v1.0. Also Green Star Office Interiors v3 has been superseded by Green Star Interiors NZ v1.0. Although the versioning is a little confusing, Masterspec Green Star sections have been amended and are now based on the v1.0's. Find out more…