On the House

Ask Chris Moller about the potential for prefabrication to change the way we build our houses and he cites a cartoon. Drawn by the American neo-futurist architect Buckminster Fuller in the 1950s, it depicts a car being constructed on a suburban front lawn. “Of course,...

More Special Housing Areas brings total to 100

“These 12 new Special Housing Areas will enable 2000 additional homes to be fast-tracked and will help address the supply and affordability issues in Auckland and the Bay of Plenty. These additional SHAs bring the nationwide total to 100, with a capacity for 47,000...

New social housing development welcomed

Community of Refuge Trust’s (CORT) Mt Wellington development, built with a $3.2 million contribution from the Government’s Social Housing Fund, will see around 22 people on low-incomes supported into affordable and good quality housing. “Yesterday the Prime Minister...

PrefabNZ + CHA Workshop – 25 February, Auckland

The workshop is part of the Levers for Prefab Action Plan research programme funded by BRANZ, the independent Building Research Association, along with members of the prebuilt design and construction industry. The aim of the workshop is to gauge the number of housing...

CORT new development opening 29 January

When: Thursday 29 January 2015 at 2:45pm Where: 227 Mt Wellington Highway (just past Sylvia Park). The Prime Minister Rt Hon John Key and Minister of Social Housing Hon Paula Bennett will be opening the new development. There is plenty of parking in the adjoining...