Download or read book Rottenomics written by Peter Dyer and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 25 years our building industry, economy and Government have failed to provide this basic guarantee: new buildings will not rot. Leaky buildings are the result of an unfortunate confluence of industrial, legislative, historical and cultural factors. Collectively, these elements stubbornly continue to defy a full and final resolution. Featuring personal stories of homeowners faced with insurmountable repair costs of hundreds of thousands to their 'dream home', often leading to sickness, depression and financial loss. And revealed for the first time, withheld Government reports that estimate the total cost of leaky dwellings at $47 Billion. Rottenomics is an engaging expose into a national crisis that refuses to go away.

Download or read book All Who Live on Islands written by Rose Lu and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature. In these intimate and entertaining essays, Rose Lu takes us through personal history—a shopping trip with her Shanghai-born grandparents, her career in the Wellington tech industry, an epic hike through the Himalayas—to explore friendship, the weight of stories told and not told about diverse cultures, and the reverberations of our parents' and grandparents' choices. Frank and compassionate, Rose Lu's stories illuminate the cultural and linguistic questions that migrants face, as well as what it is to be a young person living in 21st-century Aotearoa New Zealand.

Download or read book Constructing a Consumer Focused Industry written by David Oswald and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old saying ‘safe as houses’ is being challenged around the world like never before. Over recent decades homeowners have experienced the devastating effects of defects like asbestos, leaky buildings, structural failings, and more recently the combustible cladding crisis. The provision of safe and secure housing is a critical starting point to ensure that social value can be delivered in the built environment. However, some of these dangerous defects have resulted in a lack of security, safety, health, well-being, and social value for households and the wider community. The problems homeowners experience go beyond the substantial financial costs for defect rectification. Too often there has been a lack of government and industry support to help the housing consumer through these issues or to prevent them from occurring to begin with. It is time for a rethink and restructure of government policy, support, and industry practices to better protect housing consumers and deliver high-quality and sustainable housing that creates social value. Through evidence-based research and international case studies, this book focuses on the effects that dangerous defects have on the housing consumer. The ongoing construction cladding crisis is used as a primary case study throughout to highlight these implications, with other previous large-scale defect examples, such as leaky buildings and asbestos. Based upon the range of emerging evidence, we propose ideas for policy makers, construction and built environment professionals, owners corporations, and households on how to move forward towards a higher-quality, sustainable, and socially valuable way of residential living. Government policy has long focused on ‘making industry work’ through building regulations and standards. It is now time for greater government and industry focus on the consumer to make ‘consumer protection work’ in the built environment. There is a need to prevent dangerous defects like combustible cladding, better support consumers when defects emerge, and to create buildings for social value rather than minimum standards. Now is the time to build a better future for the end-user.

Download or read book Sustainability and Toxicity of Building Materials written by Emina K. Petrović and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-02-10 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability and Toxicity of Building Materials: Manufacture, Use and Disposal Stages provides a review of toxicity impacts from building materials, including the consideration of the toxicity in the extraction and manufacture of the materials and eventual dismantling and disposal. This book also offers the potential to stimulate future developments in this area, both in terms of knowledge-building and methods for future research. With the increasing emphasis on sustainable construction, it has become important to better understand the impacts of common materials. Civil and structural engineers, postgraduates, researchers as well as architects will find this book to be useful in selecting sustainable building materials.While many building and furnishing materials are safe to use, in recent decades, some have had to be redesigned due to recognition that they contained problem chemicals like formaldehyde. Unfortunately, there is still limited understanding of the toxic impacts of many synthetic chemicals which means that the risks in this area are not well recognized. With increasing interest in using limited resources more sustainably, definitions of what is sustainable should be expanded to move from the focus on energy and carbon impacts to also include more explicit consideration of toxicity impacts. Examines toxicity in the extraction and manufacturing of materials Presents the short and long-term toxicity effects of natural and manmade building materials Guides readers in selecting building materials that have a positive impact on the health of occupants and the environment

Download or read book A Transition to Sustainable Housing written by Trivess Moore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores the environmental, social, and financial challenges of housing provision, and the urgent need for a sustainable housing transition. The authors explore how market failures have impacted the scaling up of sustainable housing and the various policy attempts to address this. Going beyond an environmental focus, the book explores a range of housing-related challenges including social justice and equity issues. Sustainability transitions theory is presented as a framework to help facilitate a sustainable housing transition and a range of contemporary case studies are explored on issues including high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. It is an important new resource that challenges policy makers, planners, housing construction industry stakeholders, and researchers to rethink what housing is, how we design and construct it, and how we can better integrate impacts on households to wider policy development.

Download or read book Modern Apartment Design written by Guy Marriage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in engineered timber construction. The book covers a brief history of apartment buildings around the world, with a broad outline of different types of apartment blocks. It has a strong focus on the design and actual construction of apartment buildings, especially those utilising mass timber, such as cross-laminated timber and laminated veneer lumber. It also features six Case Study chapters from industry-leading practitioners in the area, enabling best practice in architecture and engineering of these new apartment building types to be more widely understood and propagated worldwide. The fully illustrated, full-colour case studies span the globe and include: Clearwater Quay in Christchurch, New Zealand (Pacific Environments NZ); Wynyard Central East 2 in Auckland, New Zealand (Architectus); Dalton Works in London, UK (Waugh Thistleton Architects); Mjøstårnet, Brumunddal, Norway (Voll Arkitekter); Brock Commons Tallwood House student housing in Vancouver, Canada (Acton Ostry Architects); and Regensbergstrasse apartments in Zurich, Switzerland (Dreicon). The book will be of great interest to architects and architecture students.

Download or read book Your Money Your Future written by Frances Cook and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The biggest goals can be achieved when you’ve got a road map in hand. Quitting your job and living a good life, on your own terms, for decades to come? You can do it!” In this book, top New Zealand finance podcaster and journalist Frances Cook shows you how to change your money so that you can live your ideal life. Learn how, on an ordinary income, you can plan for and achieve true financial freedom, with expert advice and step-by-step information on: The basics of FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early): A Kiwi guide Your magic number: Learn how much money you need to design the life you want Finance 101: Change how you handle your money to gain control of debt and simplify your life Get paid: Techniques that work to boost your earning power in any industry You earn it, you keep it: How to save more and invest that extra income Hustle smarter, not harder: Side-hustles that work (and what to watch out for) Property investing: Making the right decision for you Give yourself options: Take time off, work part-time, or work a more meaningful job Retire early, retire often: Your tailor-made plan to take time out, retire early, or work as much as you like ...and loads more.

Download or read book Women Dogs written by Judith Watt and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2006-06-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Personal history of dog people." -- (p.4) of cover.

Download or read book Sh t Towns of New Zealand written by and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the hugely popular Facebook page 'Shit Towns of New Zealand', this book describes New Zealand's towns and suburbs from the affluent to the effluent, the rural to the urinal, profiling all the best places not to visit, or heaven forbid, live. Slagging off our towns is as much a national pastime as binge drinking and ball sports. Ever since a Dutch bloke in a sailboat did a drive-by and claimed to have discovered the place, New Zealanders have revelled in taking the mickey. The towns and cities reviewed here have been carefully selected using an exacting set of scientific criteria, combined with extensive field research and a healthy sense of humour. 'Offensive.' Todd McClay, Rotorua MP 'Pretty funny.' Frankie Stevens, National Treasure

Download or read book Weathertightness written by New Zealand. Department of Building and Housing and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Women and Dogs written by Judith Watt and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WOMEN & DOGS and MEN & DOGS are a stunning pair of books. Each contains 80 images of people and their dogs, from Maria Callas to Robbie Williams, Churchill to Jilly Cooper. They are an amazing collection of photos, covering a century of dogs and their owners. But they are far more than picture books, with fascinating text, full of compelling anecdotes, and dog lore, which show people in a fascinating new light -through the story of their relationships with their pets.

Download or read book Men Dogs written by Judith Watt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-06-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eclectic collections feature brilliant photographs and fascinating stories of famous men and women and their beloved dogs, from Marilyn Monroe to Madonna, Humphrey Bogart to David Bowie.

Download or read book The Good Trustee Guide written by Peter Dyer and published by NCVO. This book was released on 2008-10-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book When I Went A Walking On Foot Through Southport s History written by Peter Dyer and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put on your hiking boots, and let local author Peter Dyer guide you on a series of walks into Southport's history. A resident of the town since 1949, he brings the past back to life, intermingling personal history with recollections of changes that affected everyone. His entertaining and nostalgic text is supported by a wide range of photographs, maps and his own drawings. When I Went a'Walking will help you to experience unexpected facets of Southport's history, from its earliest times to within living memory. However well you know the town, this will show you something new. Peter Dyer, for twenty-eight years a primary school teacher, has written on many local subjects and gives talks about the shrimping industry and the Eagle comic. He's a keen rocketeer, a painter and a baseball enthusiast.

Download or read book Coal Mines of Puponga written by Peter Dyer and published by October Enterprises T/A River Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Case for Impeachment written by Dave Lindorff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hard-hitting and persuasive new book, a seasoned journalist and a Constitutional expert assert that it's time for the American people to take action against President George W. Bush.

Download or read book The Financialization of Housing written by Manuel B. Aalbers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the financialization of housing in today’s market, housing risks are increasingly becoming financial risks. Financialization refers to the increasing dominance of financial actors, markets, practices, measurements and narratives. It also refers to the resulting structural transformation of economies, firms, states and households. This book asserts the centrality of housing to the contemporary capitalist political economy and places housing at the centre of the financialization debate. A global wall of money is looking for High-Quality Collateral (HQC) investments, and housing is one of the few asset classes considered HQC. This explains why housing is increasingly becoming financialized, but it does not explain its timing, politics and geography. Presenting a diverse range of case studies from the US, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Spain, the chapters in this book include coverage of the role of the state as the driver of financialization processes, and the part played by local and national histories and institutions. This cutting edge volume will pave the way for future research in the area. Where housing used to be something "local" or "national", the two-way coupling of housing to finance has been one crucial element in the recent crisis. It is time to reconsider the financialization of both homeownership and social housing. This book will be of interest to those who study international economics, economic geography and financialization.