New fire testing lab set to create more competition in building products

New fire testing lab set to create more competition in building products
BRANZ's new fire testing lab will give building designers more options, industry says. (Image: Supplied)
Maria Slade
Claire Falck wonders about her chances of getting Kenny Loggins to perform Danger Zone at the launch of the Building Research Association of New Zealand's new fire lab.Watching the lab’s purpose-built furnaces in action reminds the Building Research Association of NZ (BRANZ) chief executive of the fighter jets flown by Tom Cruise’s character Maverick in Top Gun and Loggins’ hit track from the movie.“It’s amazing to look at, and not until I saw it the first time, and then I had Kenny Loggins and the or...

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