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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557174703321

Titolo

Selected Papers from Building A Better New Zealand (BBNZ 2014) Conference / Edited by George Baird, Lois Easton and Adrian Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI

Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, 2016

ISBN

3-03842-095-6

9783038420965

9783038420958

Soggetti

Housing

Building materials - Standards

Low-income housing

City planning

New Zealand

New Zealand Wellington

New Zealand Auckland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents  -- List of Contributors  -- About the Guest Editors  -- Introduction and Editorial to the Special Issue "Selected Papers from the Building a Better New Zealand (BBNZ 2014) Conference"  -- ; Part I: Achieving Better Buildings  -- Heater Choice, Dampness and Mould Growth in 26 New Zealand Homes: A Study of Propensity for Mold Growth Using Encapsulated Fungal Spores / ikael Boulic, Robyn Anne Phipps, Malcolm Cunningham, Donald John Cleland, Pär Fjällström, Keiko Abe and Philippa Howden-Chapman  -- Impacts of an Innovative Residential Construction Method on Internal Conditions / Roger Birchmore, Andy Pivac and Robert Tait  -- Modern Housing Retrofit: Assessment of Upgrade Packages to EnerPHit Standard for 1940–1960 State Houses in Auckland / Paola Leardini and Manfredo Manfredini  -- Measuring the Weathertight Performance of Flashings / Mark Bassett



and Greg Overton  -- Comparison of NZ’s Energy Efficiency Regulation and Verification Assumptions to Real Building Loads and Operation / Shaan Cory, Michael Donn and Andrew Pollard  -- ; Part II: Productivity  -- Marginal Productivity Gained Through Prefabrication: Case Studies of Building Projects in Auckland / Wajiha Shahzad, Jasper Mbachu and Niluka Domingo  -- Building Information Modelling for Smart Built Environments / Jianchao Zhang, Boon-Chong Seet and Tek Tjing Lie  -- Driving Innovative Thinking in the New Zealand Construction Industry / Mohammadali Noktehdan, Mehdi Shahbazpour and Suzanne Wilkinson  -- A Production Model for Construction: A Theoretical Framework / Ricardo Antunes and Vicente Gonzalez  -- ; Part III: Urban Issues  -- Understanding the Importance of Urban Amenities: A Case Study from Auckland / Natalie Allen  -- Aiming for a Better Public Realm: Gauging the Effectiveness of Design Control Methods in Wellington, New Zealand / Morten Gjerde and Brenda Vale  -- A Framework of Thermal Sensitive Urban Design Benchmarks: Potentiating the Longevity of Auckland’s Public Realm / Andre Santos Nouri.