In March 2015, a call went out to owners of leaky buildings in the Auckland area to become part of a possible class-action civil lawsuit to be brought against cladding manufacturers. The plaintiffs brought legal proceedings against several companies, lumped together as James Hardie…
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In March 2017, residents of Yaldhurst, Christchurch took their concerns to health officials over the possible negative health effects of quarry dust emanating from a site 200m from their homes that had been operating since 1988 with a significant expansion in 2014. Dust samples analysed in an Australian lab detected that it consisted of 30% crystalline silica…
Read MoreAll told, in 2016, New Zealand consumed 540 tonnes of the fumigant, up from less than 100 tonnes in the 2000s. In raw numbers, we are number five in the world in terms of use of the gas. Seeing that other countries that still utilise this toxin are much larger than New Zealand, we are unsurprisingly the largest per capita offender…
Read MoreFollowing the deadly Grenfell Fire of last year, building standards and fire prevention methods have been called into question. New Zealand’s buildings have been the subject of scrutiny, to prevent such a fire happening here. The reviews of engineer, Tony Enright, and the Auckland Council have offered differing perspectives…
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