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29/03/2026

LADIES!!

Tell the hubby he can stay on the course or the couch because soon it’ll be you who’s going to get out the tools and get stuck in to that project he was meant to start 6 months ago! We’re so excited to be bringing more skills and knowledge to all those women out there who want to learn practical skills and home maintenance techniques while in a safe, judgement free space!

29/03/2026

We’re currently looking for passionate female builders and women confident with power tools who enjoy sharing their knowledge and connecting with others.

We’d love you to be involved in our upcoming community open day, where we’ll be welcoming women from across Christchurch to come along, build practical homewares, learn the fundamentals of DIY, and gain confidence in a supportive and welcoming environment.

This event is shaping up to be something really special, with a wide range of businesses getting behind it — from large Tier one industry players through to small, local “one-woman” businesses — all coming together to support and empower women in our community.

If you’re someone who enjoys working with tools and would love to help others learn in a hands-on, encouraging space, we would love to hear from you.

Please feel free to send me a message for more information. Alternatively if you know a lady who might be interested! Please get in touch!

07/03/2026

International Women’s day is here and we want to be apart of making it special for all the women in our community!

To celebrate the women in our community, we are offering a special discount to those who book before Midnight on Monday 9th March! Find our webpage here to reserve your spot and find out more!

https://bbgbuilt.co.nz/services/diy-workshops-for-women-christchurch/

18/01/2026

With granny flat reforms now in place, more Kiwis are looking at adding a 70m² dwelling to their section — for parents, family, or future flexibility.

What often gets missed is this: a small home still carries big fixed costs. Design, earthworks, services, labour, and a mortgage don’t shrink much just because the footprint does. Where you do have control is how that home performs once it’s built.

A standard Building Code–compliant granny flat, kept at 20°C year-round, can cost $2,400–$3,100 per year to run. A high-performance or Passive House–style build can deliver the same comfort for around $300–$500 per year.

That’s a difference of $2,000+ every year — and a warmer, healthier place for the people living in it.

It’s worth thinking beyond build cost and asking what kind of home you want to be paying for over the next 30 years.

14/01/2026

If you build a high-performance home, there is a major lender offering a discounted mortgage rate on homes built to a ‘homestar 6+’ rating.

On a $600,000 loan, a 0.70% rate reduction on the going rate could mean roughly $4200 per year back in your pocket.

Then you can stack on top of that lower power bills, — and suddenly building better starts making real financial sense over a longer time horizon.

If you’re building and want to know how to design for these incentives, DM me “BUILD BETTER” and I’ll show you how it can be achieved.

11/01/2026

Let’s talk about the building code.

A lot of homes are technically compliant, but, still cold, damp, noisy and expensive to live in.

That’s because the building code sets the baseline standard for the legal standard, not the benchmark for comfort, energy efficiency or health.

We see plans for new builds, and we also see outcomes years down the line.

If you’re building, buying, renovating, understanding this early can save you thousands long term!

16/12/2025

Talking steel and the concept of thermal bridges. We are still seeing a lot of details with plans we work on where steel is in direct contact with a cold air cavity, breaking the continuous insulation layer without a detail to stop the transmission of heat from cold area to warm area. - it can be detailed successfully, it’s to late to detail it when it’s been through the hands of designers and we’re getting it on site….

The higher the lambda value, the easier for heat to flow through a material. Steel has a lambda value (λ) of 50…

To be fair Aluminum exterior joinery, has a lambda value of ~160~ which is the highest thermal conductive capacity out of any material we see in use today in NZ….

I’ve also had troubles opening and locking thermally broken aluminum doors with the relative heat comparison on both sides of the door, making the door bow out when opened and free from the catch.

This steel is pictured here is;
-Structurally sweet (Builders degree and its installed as per engineering requirements)
-Not worried on weathertightness
-Thermally tricky because there is no detail to break the heat loss highway.

Committed to build better. Learn better. Live better.

14/12/2025

LEAKY HOME CRISIS.

Did you think they were a thing of the past?

That’s the question I’m now asking myself. We have come along way since direct fixed monolithic claddings, no eve overhangs, and riskier construction junctions.

But have we got to a place where we have got it right?

This video isn’t to nit pick, it’s observations from a final handover we were commissioned to do.

09/12/2025

Book in for 2026 with a 1 hour pre design value add meeting if your planning to build a new home or renovate in 2026. Availability is quickly running out!

30/11/2025

Two weeks before walking on the midfloor we were walking on the concrete slab, no frames up. The lads have battled some seriously hot summer days to get this job to this stage. The next big milestone is the roof going on!


30/11/2025

SIPS panel construction is slowly picking up momentum in New Zealand residential design. SIP’s are manufactured panels using an engineered polystyrene sandwiched between most commonly - two layers of oriented strand board or similar.

The obvious benefits to building with SIPS is added thermal performance, continuous insulation is layered around the whole building envelope eliminating cold spots and thermal bridges which creates a healthier environment for the buildings occupants.

From a builders standpoint. Physical on site works happen very quick saving labour hours meaning you will have a locked up building quicker. Minimising your exposure to weather related delays and the ability to craft a more predictable build programme.

Timber framing isn’t going anywhere — we’ve built with it for decades and it still has its place. But this kōrero is about lifting our industry standard. About exploring construction systems that are already proven overseas to deliver better comfort, better performance, and better outcomes than our code minimum requires. NZ needs to build better where budgets allow.

In my next bite sized high performance building episode, I’ll break down how warm, moist air moves through a building assembly — and how good design stops condensation, mould, and premature material failure. Building better starts with understanding what’s happening behind the walls. Let’s get into it.



In 2023, during an expedition to South Africa. I met a young man with calloused hands and relentless eyes. In a small to...
10/08/2025

In 2023, during an expedition to South Africa. I met a young man with calloused hands and relentless eyes.

In a small township called Grabouw one evening, outside of Cape Town homed a young man I’d have the privilege of meeting. Out of sheer luck.

He journeyed to Cape Town. Working sixteen hour days for a dream and a mission bigger than himself. Making the equivalent to about $1.90-$2NZD per hour. His dream was to carve a road from a rural settlement in Nigeria connecting his family to an arterial road network. Something there wasn’t a signal from the state to do. However he just got into it. No complaints, procrastination or excuses.

We traded stories long into the night about the individual paths we’ve both walked on this planet. He spoke eloquently and poignantly, with a tone of tenacity and grit.

We spoke on things from my stomping grounds in Central Queensland as a young buck, and seeing a city fall to its knees in Earthquakes as a kid, to his passions and a defining determination to create a third alternative in life.

Between poverty and death lay his third alternative- paving a path to possibility. That was rare air to breathe and speak coming from a place like that.

That night the air was cold out, I gave him my jacket to borrow, at the end of the night I told him that jacket all the way from Wānaka is his to keep, he looked at me and told me no one had ever given him anything. S**t.

I think about him often. His hunger, his passion, his version of R&R was a Ruthless and Relentless pursuit to pull himself out.

He thanked me for my honesty, for believing in him, (I still do from 11,000 km away) he said he’d carry what I told him into the years to come.

When I do think about him I think often the best gifts ask for nothing in return. I think that night we both walked away richer. - I’d never experienced such a conversation like that. Two kids who gave each other unconditional time, from two starkly opposite worlds.

This year we’re excited to get behind the Special children’s Christmas to give back to a few young bucks.

It’s not much to put a smile on someone’s else’s face with a small gesture. When and where you can.

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