July 2018 Issue

A Queenstown building company renowned for quality standards in workmanship and “ultimate pride in the job” has struck gold, again. AJ Saville Builder Ltd was […]

By Terry Sage, Trades Coaching New Zealand   Following on from last month’s piece of Booker Prize-worthy literature — or maybe not — of which you […]

By Architect Don Bunting   Lino is a common Latin name roughly meaning praise. Not sure how this morphed into linotype — a 90-character machine […]

By Timothy Bates, Legal Vision   This month’s article concerns the May 2018 judgement of the Ministry of Education & Others v H Construction North Island […]

The BCITO has recently launched a new programme in which participants can gain the perfect experience and skills to be a high-performing supervisor. The construction […]

Site Safe has launched a new training initiative to help senior business leaders improve health and safety in their company or organisation. The two-hour Safety […]

Have you or your team achieved great health and safety in construction? Share your success with the industry by entering the Site Safe Construction Health […]

20 years ago — July 1998: • The need for a revamp of the structure of the Registered Master Builders Federation was raised in a […]

New Zealand’s civil contractors have welcomed a record level of investment in transport, but have expressed concern at a medium-term construction gap in the Government […]

South Waikato could hold the key to developing large scale off-site manufacturing of pre-fabricated housing to help meet New Zealand’s current and future housing needs. […]

Seth Foote impressed the judges enough to take the top place at the Northern Registered Master Builders CARTERS 2017 Apprentice of the Year competition. The […]

A first-time entry into the Registered Master Builders House of the Year Awards resulted in a national win for Paragon Developments (2011) Ltd. Their striking […]

Having entered more than 10 homes in the Registered Master Builders House of the Year Awards over the past seven years, Jennian Homes Otago (2010) […]

Dominion Constructors Ltd’s striking 585 Rothesay complex on Auckland’s North Shore won the Winstone Wallboards Residential Award at the 2018 New Zealand Commercial Project Awards. […]

By RMBA chief executive David Kelly   Industry transformation is happening. After two Constructive Forums we are now seeing new approaches and technologies being applied […]

Keith Hay Homes is this year celebrating 80 years of building in New Zealand. The company pioneered a new era of low-cost prefabricated housing in […]

The Asian Construction Forum being held next month in Auckland is bringing the Kiwi and Asian building sectors together to foster collaboration and celebrate the […]

By Bostik Gone Fishin presenter and new Building Today columnist Graeme Sinclair Bostik Gone Fishin started more than 25 years ago, and in that time 607 […]

By Tradie HR director Leigh Olsen How many times have you heard “it is what it is”, and wondered what that actually means? “You’ll have […]

Onehunga Wharf has been acquired by Auckland Council in a move that will be critical to the revitalisation of Onehunga over the next 30 years. […]

The Window and Glass Association of New Zealand (WGANZ) has put the best of New Zealand designed and manufactured windows and glass in the spotlight […]

20 years ago — June 1998: • The New Zealand Master Builders Federation changed its name, dropping the words New Zealand and replacing them with […]