Introducing the SNUG - a PrefabNZ design competition for 'a home in my backyard'. The SNUG is a complementary dwelling for your back garden - a home for you, your parents, your kids, your work or for play. What do you want it to be? READ MORE

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The capacity to build more homes is already within New Zealand, instead of overseas, new research from PrefabNZ shows.
Instead of shipping in from abroad, the PrefabNZ ‘Capacity & Capability’ report demonstrates that Kiwi-based housing manufacturing firms and construction companies can deliver for KiwiBuild using offsite methods.

The PrefabNZ Good Offsite Guide: a compilation of regulatory perspectives to assist in getting your great offsite projects off the ground. PrefabNZ Members told us that dealing with building consent regulation was one of their top-three bug-bears, so we listened. The great team at PrefabNZ scoured the country searching for solutions and have developed The Good Offsite Guide.

Introducing the SNUG - a PrefabNZ design competition for 'a home in my backyard'
The SNUG is a complementary dwelling for your back garden - somewhere that can be a home for your children as they adventure into independent living, a safe place for extended family members, or a work-space to provide an alternative to commuting.

Built Offsite is a publication dedicated to offsite construction Launched at the PrefabAUS Conference in Sydney in October 2016, Built Offsite is expertly put together by Boston Publishing. Click HERE to view the issues and PrefabNZ articles.

​Obtaining direct bank finance is one of the top-three issues our Members have, keeping them awake at night. PrefabNZ is working with several major banks and finance professionals to bring about simple solutions.

“Women are the answer to New Zealand’s skilled worker shortage.” Pamela Bell, CEO PrefabNZ. New Zealand has a shortage of skilled workers and this problem will only get worse. Statistics New Zealand estimates a growth in employment of 107,800 jobs in primary industries, manufacturing and construction by 2023. It is the skilled jobs within these areas which will see the biggest growth. Women are the untapped workforce able to fill the future skilled worker shortage. Visit PrefabNZ's YouTube channel for more...

What if your bathroom and kitchen came to your building site in one-piece like a giant piece of Lego? That’s exactly what the UNIpod is all about. An open-source universally accessible bathroom pod – designed specifically for multi-unit residential applications.

HIVE was New Zealand's first Home Innovation Village facilitated by PrefabNZ in response to Canterbury's earthquakes 2010-12.

Traditional mortgage structures cause many issues for prebuilt construction. PrefabNZ met with Members and financial representatives to explore the issues and potential ways forward.