Make this year your most profitable year yet!
By adopting the following simple but smart ways to work more efficiently, reduce waste and make better returns without increasing your prices, this year...
Working with timber weatherboards
In Building Today June 2015, Mike Fox expressed concern at what he saw as a problem with “shrinking timber
weatherboards”, and at the failure of wood...
Minister: Too many Loopy Rules!
By Minister of Local Government Paula Bennett
One of the best things about my job is getting around the country, talking to New Zealanders from...
What the banks don’t tell you!
By Building Today columnist Mike Fox
I was fortunate enough to attend a presentation by world-renowned financial commentator John Kay in Auckland that was hosted...
The folly behind the falls from height campaign
The New Zealand Initiative (TNZI) recently published a report, A Matter of Balance: Regulating Safety. It was critical of the Ministry of Business, Innovation...
Building boom — a bonanza or potential graveyard for builders?
It is often naively said that builders make a fortune in the boom times. If that’s the case, why is it that so many...
The real dollar cost of the falls from height campaign
Dr Bryce Wilkinson, economist, senior research fellow of the New Zealand Initiative and author of the report A Matter of Balance: Regulating...
Bigger isn’t always better!
By Generation Homes chief executive Kelvin Atkinson
Baby boomers sang along with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, made space in their living rooms for...
Retentions to be held in trust — be careful of what you wish for!
Building Today columnist and industry stalwart Mike Fox says few in the industry understand the unintended and potentially catastrophic financial fallout that he says...
Report confirms construction laws are a mess!
The Loopy Rules Report confirms what the industry has known for years — laws around land development and construction are a mess!
The Government should...