Builders and Contractors Magazine, Summer 2016

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ISSUE 4 - 2015 Summer Edition

INSIDE Affordable Concrete & Paving

50

APD Stormwater & Rain Harvesting Systems

15

Arrow International

34

Canterbury Frames & Trusses

48

Precast Concrete NZ active for members

Canterbury Heavy Haulage 51 Chapman Engineering

24

Crombie Lockwood

5

CSP Pacific

3

Directory

67

Faulks

30

FM Group

36

HealthSafe

4

Health & Safety Reform Bill 44 IMB Construction

54

Laser Group

38

MJH Engineering

22

NZ Wood Products

6

Precast NZ Inc

8

P&W Painters

64

Reliable Foundations

12

Signage / Construction Managment Software

7

Site Safety

40

Site Security

61

Solarbright

65

Spiral Drillers

52

Steel Construction NZ (SCNZ)

16

Sustainability

42

Temperzone

2

Thirty Year NZ Infrastructure Plan 2015 66 Timber Frames & Trusses

56

Traffic Safety

62

Understanding GST

47

Urban Homes

33

PUBLISHED BY

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With concrete, precast in particular, playing a huge and ongoing part in construction in New Zealand, the national body representing manufacturers and companies using the product, Precast New Zealand (PCNZ) is perfectly placed to further the needs of members, representing them in the physical, legal and legislative walls which confront the industry. Right now, the whole of industry is challenged by the purely physical conditions under which it must operate, with the additional complexity of the post-Christchurch earthquake era interceding in activity, means the awareness of a greater need for earthquake-proofed structures and the concomitant costs of its application are making life more difficult for the whole society.

Earthquake effects Not only has Christchurch had to come to terms with the effects of earthquakes, but the whole country has had to take cognisance of the likelihood of flurries of tremors throughout the land, needing to plan constructing, or the upgrading buildings accordingly. PCNZ, which was established in 1999, represents 80 per cent

of the off-site precast concrete production. Precast concrete elements are employed in the residential, commercial and industrial and infrastructural markets. At its recent annual conference, among the many issues discussed relating to precast concrete, a major one was promotion of their Certified Plant scheme. PCNZ’s executive director, Rod Fulford draws the comparison with the ready mix concrete industry, in which concrete is purchased from certified plants, asserting that this should also apply to the precast medium. In this programme, all concerned would be assured that products purchased from a Precast NZ

Certified Plant would be from an established operator, with appropriate manufacturing facilities, quality assurance programmes and appropriate levels of experience and expertise. It would be a case of ‘there are concrete precasters and then there are Precast NZ Certified Precasters’. continued page 8

MARKAT PROMOTIONS LTD 120 Maces Rd, Bromley • PO Box 19607, Woolston, Christchurch 8241 • P: 03-376 5120 • FAX: 03-376 5153 • Email: art@markat.co.nz


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