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May 2025
WMAI Update
TECHNICAL ARTICLES
• Electronic Leak Detection
can give you a clean bill of
health, even when you are
full of holes.
OPINION PIECE
• Working in vs on the Business
• Compliant Wet Areas
• Understanding what a system is
• Reading the instructions
• Catalogues Benchmark
• Accessories outside Systems
ADVERTORIAL
• Equus & Soprema
• Marketing Matters - Print Material

February 2025
WMAI AGM
• Election of Officers
• Calendar for 2025
TECHNICAL ARTICLES
• Due Diligence & Value Engineering
• Recovery Roofs
• Cold Roof Venting Requirements - Part A
• Dew Point - Part B
ADVERTORIAL
• Pushing Design Boundaries
• Marketing Matters - Websites

November 2024
A call to Associate Members
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
• Negative Side Tanking: What Is It?
OPINION PIECE
• Developing Effective Systems
OPINION PIECE
• Why test at all… we never have in the past
ADVERTORIAL
• Marketing Matters

April 2024
MEMBER PROFILE
• Hitech Membranes Ltd
OPINION PIECE
• Summer working hazards
ADVERTORIAL
• WMAI Drip Edge
• Detec NZ Ltd
WMAI AGM REPORT
TECHNICAL ARTICLE
• IWAM Code of Practice update

November 2023
TECHNICAL
• The process of replacing an end-of-life membrane
• RANZ article on re-roofing
OPINION PIECE
• Compliance costs to industry
ADVERTORIAL
• TANZ supporting the New Zealand Construction Industry.

August 2023
• Internal Waterproofing to the LBP Regime Proposal 2b
• Water Testing/Electric Field Vector Mapping
• Waterproofing in winter
• TANZ Update
• Aquaknight Industries New Range of Stainless Steel & Aluminium Membrane Roofing Accessories

June 2023
• International Roofing Expo (IRE)
• Below Grade Tanking/H1 Energy Efficiency update
• Training in 2023
• Code of Practice for Single Ply Membrane
• Membrane colours
• Member Profile: Viking Roofspec

January 2023
• Annual General Meeting - Life Members
• Australian Institute of Waterproofing (AIW)
• Codes of Practice
• WMAI Drip Edge
• Technical: H1 Insulation
• Member Profile: Soprema

October 2022
• Below Ground Tanking
• Interior Wet Area Membranes - referencing Ardex article
• RMBM Code Snippet
• Waterproofing Apprenticeship

August 2022
• Member: Anthony Howell
• WMAI Drip Edge
• Membrane Training
• BGT Code Snippet
• Aquaknight Industries Presentation: Membrane Clamping Drains - The Problem with Plastic Clamp Rings
• Problem Resolution

August 2021
• Torch-On Membranes Risks
• Water Recovery from flat roofs
• Member: Brian Greenall
• RMBM Code Snippet

May 2021
• Rob Woodger, Council
• Member: Chris Withers
• RMBM Code Snippet

September 2020
• Substrate Falls
• Member: Rodney Knight
• Aluminium Extrusion
• H&S Code Snippet

December 2020
• Waterproofing Decks
• Member: Jim Gerbes
• IWAM Code Snippet