Changes to immigration rules to help meet demand for the 5000 more construction workers needed to rebuild Canterbury have been largely welcomed by a workers’ union.

A crackdown on tradies' cash jobs is yielding "outstanding" results, says the tax department.

Major changes to rules about quake-prone buildings have been announced, cutting the number of buildings requiring assessment from 500,000 to 30,000.

Fletcher Building subsidiary Fletcher Living has just won a huge Government contract to build 191 new Christchurch houses.

New Zealand has 72 large fixed cranes up, including 29 in Auckland and 23 in Christchurch.

Investigations are being carried out into weak, faulty Firth concrete supplied to the $1.4b Waterview Connection.

The director of a failed Auckland building contractor that owes creditors almost $5 million has allegedly refused to co-operate with receivers.

Weak, substandard concrete has been delivered to 70 sites from an Auckland plant, says Firth owner Fletcher Building.

Faulty concrete has now been discovered in The University of Auckland's $200m city campus science redevelopment and expansion.

Work on up to 35 residential and commercial projects will need to be redone after faulty concrete was supplied and used in building work.

China Construction Bank New Zealand is on a recruiting drive as it pushes for a slice of the growing market facilitating trade between this country and the world's second-biggest economy.

NZ's biggest listed company has revealed how one of its businesses made faulty and weak concrete and sent it out to many building sites, including the Waterview project.

Auckland tradies are being targeted by the Inland Revenue Department in a bid to recoup unpaid income tax.

New Zealand's biggest leaky building payout points to serious flaws in our system, according to an industry expert.

The 150 owners of the 12-level Nautilus tower in Orewa were awarded the payout in a decision released yesterday by Justice Murray Gilbert.

The amount of vacant office space in the Auckland CBD has been shrinking for the past three years as the economy grows, business confidence reaches record highs, writes Chris Dibble.

Work on the latest phase of Auckland International Airport's fast-expanding commercial hub is well under way, ready for new buildings.

Geoffrey Lang's first sighting of a 33m cement storage tank in front of his house was also the first time he heard his wife swear.

Developers who have been sitting on Auckland land earmarked for fast-tracked housing are being warned to start building or lose their special privileges.

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.

Auckland Mayor Len Brown has stepped up a war of words with Ports of Auckland, accusing port bosses of keeping the council in the dark about two huge wharf extensions.