DBH works to speed up Christchurch rebuild
The Department of Building and Housing is supporting the Christchurch City Council to improve its building consenting processes and its ways of working to...
Industry seeing potential in BIM
Masterspec, the producers of New Zealand’s national specification system — in conjunction with BRANZ and NBS (UK) — has released a report on its...
Property Council appoints new president
Tony Sewell, chief executive of Ngai Tahu Property Ltd has been elected Property Council national president in Auckland recently. As new national president,...
Construction one of five sectors with poor workplace fatalities record
A review of the Department of Labour’s Workplace Health and Safety Strategy to 2015 revealed a gap between the high level strategy framework and...
New guidelines to prevent falls on site
Minister of Labour Kate Wilkinson has recently launched new guidance to reduce the workplace death and injury toll from falls in the construction sector....
Lockwood Homes survives the test of time
Developed and patented in 1951 by Dutch immigrants Joe La Grouw Snr and John van Loghem, the Lockwood Building System is an engineering innovation...
Canterbury builders confident with most entries in House of the Year
Canterbury builders have embraced the Registered Master Builders PlaceMakers 2012 House of the Year by submitting the most entries for a single region in...
Initiative aims to increase productivity by 20%
The value of New Zealand’s construction sector came under the spotlight in March with the launch of a skills strategy to boost sector growth....
Timber standing tall again
Europe and North America have been hot on it for a while. And now timber is seeing a revival in Australasia, if a huge...
Solar energy focuses people on other eco-friendly devices
Gone are the days when people would choose a house purely for its aesthetic appeal. When building a new home, New Zealanders want...