The Building Better Homes,Towns and Cities National Science Challenge aims to improve the quality and supply of housing and create smart and attractive urban environments.
We commissioned an expert panel to investigate the factors that led to the partial floor collapse at Wellington’s Statistics House during the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake.
This report describes the observed efficiency, effectiveness and consistency of the end-to-end building consent processes as they have been applied to new public housing commissioned by Kāinga Ora (as an agent of the Crown). It also provides a baseline for identifying efficiency gains over time through, for example, greater use of ‘MultiProof’ and modular components.
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