Just Another Ponsonby Villa.
Tyvek came into the office for a Turkish bbq CPD.
LIQUIDITY / LAUNDERING:
Tyvek, by Du Pont, is a material used in building to control liquid, albeit water vapour or water droplets. However it is another form of liquidity, that of cash, which lead to Tyvek’s pioneering of polymer bank notes….
Certainly the note has great durability, but inkwear/adhesion may not be as good as on a conventional rag paper note. This may however simply be a reflection on the notes’ greater average life. Also there have been some problems with the plastic substrate itself. These aspects may not be so important to a larger country but in the Island the policy has been to recognise our notes as excellent off Island ambassadors and to therefore maintain a clean-note policy. The condition of the bulk of the present Tyvek® notes in circulation is not consistent with this clean-note policy.
Polymer banknotes that were first introduced in Australia in 1988 and subsequently in New Zealand in 1999.
The world’s first 100% weatherboard house – yes, that includes a weatherboard roof – is currently being clad in Auckland… whilst the architect sits seemingly chillaxed here in London. In a world of tech-heavy, brain dead CAD systems, this is BIM-lite: a Skype-SketchUp 8-bit architecture without resolution. And if we seem chillaxed, LOL, it is purely because every detail +/- 1% has been drawn into existence whether in 2d, 3d, 1d or 4d. At Stage K for Konstruction this means: Draw more, Talk less. Tolerance is everything.
Concealed blocked gutters? Install a Mannekin Pis type discharge warning system…
In the process of building, projects materially metamorphose. A timber frame house begets a plywood house which in turn begets a rubber membrane house which will beget a weatherboard house… sometimes buildings look better in an earlier part of the process than the finished product. Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin comes to mind: the concrete structure arguably looked more sombre and befitting of its programme than the shiny finished article… we hope this is not the case here!