Deconstruction & Demolition

August 8, 2019

by Commerical lawyer, Geoff Hardy Asbestos is a nasty substance, which is mined from rock-forming minerals, and contains fibres with little hooks in them that once in your lungs, never get out. They can cause serious diseases such as cancer that don’t become evident until 10-40 years later. It was widely used from the 1940s to the 1990s (and ...

Is asbestos going to be the new leaky home syndrome?

September 1, 2017

Canvassing opinion from within the concrete industry, along with other stakeholders, the roadmap identifies common research areas and articulates these as a series of goals. Specific research projects to achieve these goals form the final component of the Roadmap. A common problem with a research strategy is to accept that demand exceeds the resources available. As such the exercise quickly ...

The Concrete Research Roadmap

July 13, 2016

Are you running a business (for example, building, roofing, or plumbing) with workers who may disturb or remove asbestos or asbestos-containing material (ACM)? In April, changes were made to the regulations governing work involving asbestos. Asbestos regulations were updated to bring New Zealand into line with other countries. With more than 170 New Zealand workers dying each year from asbestos-related ...

Coming across asbestos? Play by the new rules

July 13, 2016

The latest edition of guidelines for the safe management and removal of asbestos will have wide range implications for the entire New Zealand construction sector, says Terry Coleman, secretary of the New Zealand Demolition and Asbestos Association (NZDAA). “It is very important that people working across all sub trades have training, similar to Site Safe training, in the identification, management ...