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
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ref: B1504
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