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Engineering

Building Controls Update 120 – Department of Building and Housing

Issue 32 – October 2011

The Department of Building and Housing (the Department) released a Practice Advisory on 30 September 2011 to alert practising structural engineers assessing existing multi-storey buildings throughout New Zealand about issues relating to safety of stairs.

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Working on the same team

Issue 32 – October 2011

By Jeremy Sole, Chief Executive New Zealand Contractors' Federation and Companion to IPENZ (CompIPENZ).

The recent and very successful joint conference between the New Zealand Contractors' Federation and the Association of Consulting Engineers – 'Collaborative Industry, Working Together, Driving Progress' was certainly a groundbreaking event. Not so long ago the very suggestion of getting hundreds of contractors and consulting engineers to spend 3 days in each other's company would have been greeted with some rolling of eyes and comments about murder being committed.

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