These cutting-edge innovations will debut together at this year's New Zealand International Building Expo

Because of the COVID pandemic, Auckland has gone a long time without a substantial building, construction materials and home exhibition. This is a major gap amid the growing public enthusiasm for property development in recent years and the unprecedented property market boom. Both the government and those involved in land development and new-home construction face many urgent issues. Alongside rapidly rising house prices, increasing costs and shortages of building materials and construction labour deserve attention and discussion from all stakeholders!

The New Zealand International Building Expo and Summit, taking place at Vodafone Events Centre on 6–7 August, therefore comes at just the right time. As an annual barometer of New Zealand's construction industry, this year's expo will bring local developers fresh thinking and solutions for the pandemic era, improving project efficiency and quality and supporting the public's development ambitions. In previous years, the expo has attracted more than a hundred well-known companies from New Zealand and overseas to showcase their latest products. Covering construction, building materials, smart homes, and the latest technology products and solutions, it offers face-to-face exchanges on topical issues with construction professionals, professional investors and specialists from other fields. Through in-depth exploration and discussion, it aims to give visitors a comprehensive, immersive exhibition experience!

Unlike previous years, this year's exhibition has specifically chosen “Shaping Future Living Together/Building together·Living together” as its theme, calling on colleagues throughout the construction supply chain to build a path towards innovation and future development together. The themed Innovation Zone will be the exhibition's biggest highlight. Many exhibitors will bring a range of future-focused, high-tech products: low-carbon, environmentally friendly building materials, smart-home products, and new technologies combining intelligence and health, all available to preview before their market launch!

#Highlight 1：

Health box Puro-Air Kit

Most commercial air-conditioning systems now recirculate indoor air. To combat the spread of coronavirus and other bacteria and viruses through indoor ventilation systems, Midea recently introduced a health box, the Puro-Air Kit, which can be easily installed in such systems. Using ultraviolet light to kill the vast majority of bacteria and viruses, it not only helps interrupt transmission of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), but is also highly effective against other airborne infectious diseases.

#Highlight 2：

Midea Mini VRF DC inverter mini variable refrigerant flow air-conditioning system

As summers in our cities have felt increasingly hot and winters increasingly cold in recent years, installing air conditioning is currently the most effective solution. However, an ordinary New Zealand house needs at least 4–5 split-system units: 5–7 kW for the living room and 2.5 kW for bedrooms and activity rooms. This is more expensive and takes up more installation space, while multiple outdoor units (ODUs) on exterior walls can seriously detract from a building's appearance.

The mini VRF air-conditioning system from Chinese brand Midea offers a complete solution. A single ODU can connect to as many as 9 indoor units. As one integrated system, it is easy to install and maintain and can sustain efficient operation over the long term, substantially reducing running costs compared with conventional split systems.

A louvred aluminium-foil fin design reduces air resistance, while increasing the heat-transfer area and improving overall energy efficiency.
An internally grooved copper-tube heat exchanger greatly increases the tubes' heat-transfer area, ensuring consistently efficient heat exchange.
Specially coated blue fins effectively protect the copper tubes against corrosion from air, water and other corrosive substances, ensuring a longer heat-exchanger service life.

Midea Mini VRF helps keep noise at bay and creates a comfortable home environment. Midea VRF systems have compact bodies that require less installation space, along with longer piping runs to meet a wide range of installation requirements. They can be combined with various indoor unit types, allowing interior design aesthetics to be expressed to the fullest.

#Highlight 3：

Bravat Unit Bathroom Bravat prefabricated bathroom

German brand Bravat brings an industrially designed complete bathroom, combining an integrated waterproof tray, wall panels and ceiling panels to form an enclosed space. A range of functional sanitary fixtures completes this self-contained bathroom unit.

Background: founded in Germany in 1973, this well-known bathroom sub-brand of Dietsche is a globally recognised bathroom brand specialising in bathroom product research, development and manufacturing. With two design and R&D centres, in Germany and Asia, it upholds the German tradition of meticulous manufacturing to provide customers worldwide with stylishly designed smart-bathroom solutions.

#Highlight 4：

Smart home-Smart toilet （Intelligence Toilet）

A conventional toilet has a relatively simple structure, mainly comprising a cistern, inlet pipe, outlet pipe, overflow pipe, inlet and outlet plugs, a button, float ball, lever and ceramic bowl. Smart toilets add features such as a heated seat, personal washing, drying, deodorising and automatic lid opening. They come in two forms: smart toilet seats and integrated smart toilets. Their basic features are broadly similar, although integrated models offer a more complete range of additional functions. Compared with a toilet seat attachment, an integrated smart toilet looks more attractive and cohesive and is easier to clean.

The integrated toilet Argus Engineering is bringing to this exhibition is suitable for the whole family and convenient for older people and women. Its antibacterial nozzle effectively keeps bacteria at bay, supporting hygiene and health. Its deodorising function is also important, helping purify the air and promptly remove odours during use. With comprehensive functions and reassuring hygiene, this smart toilet is a real find.

Heating systems on the market fall into three categories: stored-water heating, rapid heating and instantaneous heating. Stored-water models have a tank whose water is continuously reheated, but bacteria can easily multiply in it. These are being phased out. Rapid-heating models improve on stored-water smart toilets with a smaller tank and greater heating power to shorten heating time. These are also being phased out. Instantaneous heating is now the mainstream option. It removes the tank and connects the inlet pipe to a heater, bringing water to the set temperature quickly. Instantaneous technology, using a ceramic heating core, heats fresh flowing water and supplies hot water without waiting. It is consistent, durable and energy-efficient, offering cleanliness and hygiene while reducing energy consumption.

This fully featured, instantaneous-heating toilet seat is simple to operate, with adjustable water flow, temperature and spray height. Its appearance is simple, comfortable and attractive, while the antibacterial heated seat adds comfort and a sense of cleanliness and hygiene.

The specially designed curved spray arm optimises the washing area, achieving the same cleaning effect without extending too far and avoiding splashes of waste for more hygienic use. Its stainless-steel nozzle effectively inhibits bacterial growth. Instantaneous heating delivers hot water in a second, without waiting. This product is also very competitively priced within its category, uses very little electricity and offers a pleasing experience—a great addition to everyday wellbeing. If you are interested, remember to come and try it for yourself at the exhibition!

Now for the reveal: all the products introduced above were brought into New Zealand by the same local company—Argus Engineering! As Midea Heating & Building Technology's (HBT) New Zealand agent and the exclusive agent for Germany's Bravat bathroom products, Argus provides New Zealand customers with outstanding products and services, including smart buildings, lifts, residential and commercial air conditioning, bathroom fixtures, complete home fit-outs and household appliances. Its goal is clear: to make every New Zealander's home and public spaces more comfortable, and life better!

Argus Engineering has spared no expense in bringing its latest and most technologically advanced products to this year's building expo. Its stand is number 1 in the Innovation Zone. On Friday 5 August at 11:30 am, brand founder Lucia Sun will also deliver a keynote address entitled “The future direction of smart-home development”—a presentation not to be missed!

Argus Engineering Special offers:

1: Nine-piece smart-home appliance package Unbeatable exhibition price: $3699

2: Midea 20L and 50L high-capacity dehumidifiers 88 discount offer (models MDDM20 and MDDP50）

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