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Artisan is the latest tool in BRANZ’s mission to raise the standard of residential builds in New Zealand. Read some of our recent articles here, or visit the BRANZ website for our latest in-depth research.

How to assure as-built quality in self-certification

Digital record keeping will be key to the success of self-certification for plumbers, dranlayers and volume builders

"We're seeing about six weeks of time saved"

Average site build time reducing by 6 weeks on average - Jennian Homes
Build quality improving almost overnight using Artisan - Auckland City Council

MBIE Guidance on Remote Inspections using Artisan

MBIE publishes their guide to Remote Inspections and draws an important distinction for Artisan. Artisan is the gold standard for Evidence-based Virtual Inspections

MBIE/ Master Plumbers Independant Artisan Review

"BCA representatives and plumbers interviewed for this evaluation were unanimously positive about their experience of using Artisan to create digital…

Artisan Myth Busting

After 5 years of Artisan in production, we get some pretty interesting feedback about what people say about our product and other solutions in the market. Some of the strongest negative opinions of these solutions often come from people who have never used them. We often find that their opinion is based on the propaganda of vendors of competing approaches or from fear of what any technology might mean to their existing roles. We thought it might be useful to comment on some prevalent misconceptions

Multi- Artisan Jurisdiction Ecosystems

Artisan has new Ecosystem functionality for managing multiple "Child" jurisdictions from a "Parent" jurisdiction.
It has been brilliant for managing separate factory-build unique shotlists and projects for BCAs and for Franchise builders with an HQ "Parent" site able to overview, share innovation updates with and administer multiple individual "Child" franchisee jurisdictions.