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ArchiPro Project Summary - Durapanel IT Wall System enhances construction efficiency with innovative design, offering builders speed, strength, and adaptability for residential and commercial projects.

Title:: Durapanel IT Wall System gives builders speed, strength, and adaptability advantages.
Manufacturers and Supplier:: Juken New Zealand Ltd
Category:: Residential/; New Builds
Region:: Onehunga, Auckland, NZ
Completed:: 2024
Building style:: Terrace
Photographers:: Juken New Zealand Ltd

With a legacy of over 30 years, Durapanel has consistently led the way in innovation with its Triboard Structural Panel Systems. Their BRANZ-appraised Intertenancy (IT) wall systems, designed for load-bearing or non-load-bearing, fire-rated, and sound-insulating partitions, are a testament to their expertise. The Durapanel IT Wall System streamlines the building process, ensuring construction is faster, stronger, and more adaptable.

Constructing residential duplexes and medium-density, 2 to 3-story city housing demands efficient, fire-rated inter-tenancy walls. Commercial projects, including existing building upgrades and new constructions, require time- and cost-effective solutions without compromising on quality.

Durapanel, based in Northland, services the entire country with its state-of-the-art Offsite Manufacturing (OSM) Flat Pack Systems. Their IT wall systems, with Triboard as the critical component, deliver outstanding speed, strength, and adaptability.

The Triboard IT Master Sheet, measuring 4000 x 2450 x 38 mm, allows precise cuts for light fittings, and wiring holes using CNC machines offsite. For instance, a 12-meter wall can be delivered battened, insulated, and ready for quick assembly without additional framing or plasterboard stopping. The pre-painted 5+ undercoat finish further accelerates the process.

Engineered for strength, the 38 mm Triboard IT panel features a wood strand core sandwiched between MDF outer layers. This results in a clean-lined panel with high resilience, impact resistance, and incredible stiffness. The dimensionally stable core provides excellent load-bearing and screw-holding capabilities, while the smooth MDF surfaces are ideal for painting or overlaying. This combination makes it perfect for inter-tenancy walls, offering both plasterboard and frame in one.

“Durapanel's OSM systems are designed to be adaptable, offering cost-effective and efficient building solutions. We provide technical support for architects and engineers and can offer quotes on concept plans. The IT Wall System is not just suitable, but excels in interfacing with traditional timber frame construction, light gauge steel frame construction, and Triboard Housing Panel construction. It's also a perfect fit for use as infill panels within buildings with concrete frames designed to NZS 3101”. Vincent Garton (Durapanel Management Team).

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The Durapanel IT Wall System is a testament to safety and sound insulation, achieving a Fire Resistance Rating (FRR) of 60/60/60 and an impressive STC rating of 56 when constructed according to the Durapanel Manual. For loaded walls, the maximum allowable design load is 20 kN/m of wall length. The system supports a maximum height of 3.0 meters for loaded walls and 4.5 meters for unloaded walls. Heights above these limits require specific design considerations.

For further information or technical specifications, visit the Durapanel websiteor Triboard technical page.

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Welcome to Juken New Zealand Ltd (“JNL”). We are a New Zealand (“NZ”) based and registered company with a growing global outreach. We have been heavily involved with the NZ forestry and wood-processing industries for the past 30 years – manufacturing advanced and innovative wood products from selectively planted, managed and harvested Radiata Pine for local and export markets. In that time we have become important economic and cultural contributors to the local communities within which we operate.

In an age where wood is becoming increasingly recognised and re-established as a product of choice for many structural and non-structural applications, we can offer you high quality, fit-for-purpose products to meet your needs.

We have sustainably managed and certified plantation forests in the East Coast and Wairarapa regions of NZ’s North Island. In Wairarapa we have one and in Kaitaia, we have two, efficient and environmentally clean wood processing mills. We employ nearly 460 people and obtain goods and services from several hundred suppliers.

Research and development are important to us, and we also benefit from the technology and resources of our Japan-based parent company WoodOne Ltd, a major international housing materials and componentry company, which has invested over $NZ700 million into our Company and NZ.

All of which means that in an age where wood is becoming increasingly recognised and re-established as a product of choice for many structural and non-structural applications we can offer you high quality, fit-for-purpose products to meet your needs.

WHAT WE DO
We make a wide range of engineered wood Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL), Panels and Solid Wood Products – for structural and non-structural purposes, for external or internal uses, and for appearance or non-appearance finishes.

All of it come from certified forestry we care for and harvest on a sustainable basis to ensure that you receive the very best products for your requirements. If we do not have the right trees we obtain them from other carefully selected sustainable sources. So we are closely involved and “hands-on” all the way through from the tree seed to the finished product. And in a way that is sensitive to the social needs and ecosystems within which we live, work and play.

Our forests are certified and managed according to internationally-recognised environmental standards – FSC®and ISO. They are immaculate. They provide the very best of raw materials to our wood processing mills which are also certified and managed according to international standards – including FSC®, ISO and EWPAA. Through innovative processes and skilled staff, our mills transform our harvested trees into high-quality products – products that are reliable and durable, that perform, and that can
be trusted.

Our range of products is wide and varied, but we are not limited to “off-the-shelf” solutions. If you cannot find what you are looking for in our current range then ask us about custom-made options to suit your exact needs. Such requests fit comfortably with our philosophy, and because we own the process from start to finish we will always try to meet your needs.

It is yet another reason why discerning customers who seek and demand the natural benefits of wood choose Juken New Zealand Ltd for top quality engineered and solid wood products.