Site enabling works on New Zealand's biggest new infrastructure project, Transmission Gully, begin this month.

A legal challenge to the lawfulness of two wharf extensions in the Waitemata Harbour will be heard in June.

A fight has erupted over one of New Zealand's biggest leaky building payouts, as 253 owners of a North Shore apartment/hotel tower battle one another.

One of the country's largest off-site housing prefabricators, eHome NZ, owes secured creditors $13.9 million.

Some of the biggest buildings of the new-look Christchurch are being put together virtual piece by virtual piece, thanks to remarkable 3D technology.

Massey University is planning to spend more than $130 million in the next year to double the student capacity of its Albany campus.

The McConnell family own construction company Hawkins. John McConnell talks to Jennifer Dann.

Heads could roll over Ports of Auckland expansion plans, according to a senior Auckland Council source.

The Wynyard Quarter's stout but stately 1920s John Lysaght building is getting a $6 million makeover.

Ports of Auckland is not ruling out a pause in construction on two massive wharf extensions into the Waitemata Harbour.

Councils may soon face private sector competition for issuing building consents again, as part of a Government drive to make housing more affordable.

As Wellington Airport's $58 million airport terminal extension rises out of the ground, more than 15,000 passengers continue to fly in and out each day.

Part of troubled housing development empire Tribeca Homes has been placed into liquidation by creditors.

Auckland's rapidly expanding economy has prompted the city's biggest private developer to announce $220 million of new work.

New Zealand's biggest private property developer, Mansons TCLM, is planning three big new Auckland office blocks worth $220 million.

Auckland building contractor Valiant Homes has collapsed with creditors chasing almost $5 million from it.

Construction activity in Australia continued to fall in February as an interest rate cut failed to encourage new orders.

Construction of Ponsonby's new $220 million Vinegar Lane and Cider Building projects is well under way.

A new $300 million 800-unit Albany project, promoted as New Zealand's largest residential apartment development, has just been announced. Martin

Carter Holt Harvey's cladding sheets and systems used in 880 school buildings were "inherently defective", the Court of Appeal has heard.

Building activity has reached its strongest growth rate in almost 15 years and is up sharply in the latest quarter, but critics say it is still not helping relieve Auckland's housing crisis.

New Zealand's biggest off-site housing manufacturer received a $287,500 Government grant before Prime Minister John Key opened its Kumeu factory.

Small business owners, particularly in the construction industry, should be breathing a sigh of relief this week.