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Effective ventilation of medium density housing and apartments is essential to achieving warm, dry and healthy homes. An engineered ventilation design is key to success, as these buildings come with unique complexities not found in traditional standalone houses.
Humidity and temperature have an interdependent relationship which can greatly impact the indoor environment to the extent it affects both occupant and building health. Yet while this relationship is complex and the inputs vary daily, the solution doesn’t. Indeed, the solution is not only simple and sustainable, it’s free.
According to Fire & Emergency New Zealand, 1 in 4 household fires in New Zealand starts in the kitchen. The causes of these fires are many and varied. What should not vary is how the building ‘reacts’ to fire in order to minimise fire spread and provide occupants with enough time to safely evacuate. These ‘reactions’ are clearly defined and include the use of the fire dampers
Why do bathrooms need quality ventilation systems? There are two primary reasons, firstly to manage humidity and airborne moisture generated by personal hygiene, and secondly the removal of odours. While these factors may seem obvious to most people (especially the odour issue), the risks of insufficient ventilation to bathroom spaces and the dangers that can arise may not.
Ventilation in schools is known to increase educational standards, reduce absenteeism and classroom disruption, and slow the transmission of infectious diseases and viruses.
We’ve come a long way in designing and building homes and spaces for people.
The modern world is a noisy place. We’re bombarded with auditory stimulus in pretty much every waking moment. That doesn’t stop when we sleep either.
So many of the written words about business focus on productivity.
If you were born in 1947, the chances are the first home you lived in had no insulation and was single glazed. No consideration would have been given to solar orientation, the average section was 708mᒾ and around 28% of NZ housing stock was made up with State Homes.
Today's working aged adults are known as the ‘Indoor Generation’.
The responsibilities of a building owner are not straightforward.
Every building has to have some sort of ventilation. The NZ Building Code makes sure of that.
The pressure to build upwards and increase housing density, in the search for greater housing affordability, comes with risk and complication.
The link between poor air quality and poor physical health is well-researched and well-known.
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