The liquidators of an Auckland building company that collapsed owing more than $4 million believe its director is somewhere in Europe.

More Fonterra job cuts have raised questions about whether the dairy giant will need all the space it has leased in new upmarket Auckland headquarters.

A man-made waterfall with a 4.5m drop is to feature in a white water sports centre in Auckland.

Auckland University today released an image of its planned $281.9 million engineering faculty building.

Auckland University's $2 billion two-decade upgrade is halfway as it narrows its focus from five to three campus sites and upgrades, demolishes or extends a swag of buildings.

Martin Hutchin sold investment properties in Invercargill and Huntly and was described as a "risk to the community".

Last month saw the highest number of new dwellings consented in a month since March 2005.

If Auckland has an architectural boy wonder, it's Nat Cheshire, who is the delineator behind two rural cabins that won the 2014 Home of the Year.

Fletcher Building's June 2015 annual result out today showed revenue climbed 3 per cent but net earnings fell 20 per cent.

Profit fell to $270 million in the year ended June 30, from $339 million a year earlier, the company said.

Auckland could take another 86,400 dwellings in the next eight years without any risk of over-building.

Dual-listed giant Fletcher Building is tipped to push up annual operating earnings 4 per cent to $652 million when it declares its full-year result tomorrow.

A leaky building lawsuit against cladding manufacturer James Hardie is looking more likely to expand into a class action.

The cladding manufacturer is facing a leaky building lawsuit that could balloon into class action.

People working in the construction industry continue to enjoy the benefits of the building boom in Christchurch and Auckland.

Auckland projects including a Titirangi art gallery and a Manukau campus building have been short-listed for architecture awards.

Part of the Ministry of Education's lawsuit against Carter Holt Harvey has been thrown out but the bulk of the litigation remains.

Buildings at a relatively new Auckland school are about to be demolished in one of the biggest casualties of the leaky building crisis.

A new $50 million dome-shaped silo for storing cement is due to spring up at Ports of Auckland next week or the week after.

Initial geotechnic testing has been carried out on the site for the 52-level NDG Auckland Centre and construction might begin next year.

One of NZ's biggest off-site housing manufacturers is now in liquidation, but creditors have hope of getting paid.

The head of New Zealand's biggest insulation manufacturer welcomed the Government's decision to require all tenanted properties to have ceiling and underfloor insulation.

Auckland needs to squeeze in and up and move to having more suburban units and apartments to meet buyers' growing financial constraints and limitations.

Tenants' rights groups have welcomed plans to insulate all rental properties, but nearly 100,000 would be exempt where it was impossible to retro-fit insulation.

A council body has four months to produce a viable film studio plan at Hobsonville Pt or the land will be used for housing.

Aucklanders are divided on either side of the movies versus home debate that’s been raging over a prime piece of land in Hobsonville Pt.

One of New Zealand's largest privately owned elderly-care, rest home and retirement village businesses is planning a $450 million to $500 million expansion.