Night-time traffic on Auckland's Northwestern Motorway is being diverted as heavy concrete beams are lifted into place for a giant triple-level traffic interchange at Waterview.

Lindsay Jones has no desire to knock down his 129-year-old church at the top of Queen St. But as things stand, the senior pastor and his congregation can't afford to keep it open either.

A bowling club in the heart of the upmarket Auckland suburb of Remuera has been sold for $8.1 million to an investment company which wants to build a retirement village.

Grant Florance, as head of the Certified Builders Association of New Zealand, helps to ensure building a dream home doesn't become a nightmare.

The need for skilled engineers and construction workers continues to grow in Christchurch and elsewhere in the New Zealand economy.

Financial contract negotiations and arrangements for New Zealand's biggest new infrastructure job have been completed.

Construction industry organisation Certified Builders has launched a new set of plans for houses, saying it could save people around $10,000.

About 100 leaky building victims whose claims were rejected because they were beyond a 10-year threshold may now get help to fix their homes.

The designer of the Southland Stadium, the roof of which collapsed under heavy snow in 2010, has been expelled from the Institution of Professional Engineers NZ.

The ex-wife of a former bankrupt property developer has gone back to court in an attempt to revive her multi-million dollar claim over relationship assets.

A heartfelt apology has been issued to the families of the CTV Building collapse victims by the structural engineer who designed it.

A joinery worker who repeatedly refused to wear safety equipment and yelled obscenities at his boss was justifiably sacked, the Employment Relations Authority has ruled.

Construction helped to boost the Auckland economy by 2.6 per cent during the March year but unemployment is still high and wage growth remains stagnant.

Changes are afoot at Mt Wellington's new 107-unit Thompson Park housing estate after the former main lender was replaced some weeks ago.

Up to 600 new apartments, townhouses and duplexes in 17 blocks, six to nine levels high, are planned in the now open areas around Wynyard Quarter.

An aerial image of Unitec's ambitious plans for its 53ha Mt Albert campus show dozens of apartments and townhouses squeezed onto its site.

The giant tunnel boring machine Alice has reached halfway on the first leg of her long journey underground at Auckland's Waterview Connection project.

Another construction industry player has criticised Fletcher Building's dominant position in New Zealand's plasterboard market via its Winstone Wallboards.

Auckland and Christchurch's rapid house-building resurgence has surprised and delighted economists as it hit the highest level since 2002.

Claims about anti-competitive practices in New Zealand's plasterboard market have been added to by a former Christchurch building sector worker who says he has first-hand experience of it.

The French elite may scorn McDonald's for what they see as an economic and gastronomic horror in the same bun, but citizens in a town in northern France have taken to the streets to demand a branch of the US fast food chain.

The Commerce Commission is so concerned about construction industry cartels, price-fixing and bid-rigging that it has launched a website calling for whistleblowers.

Almost three-quarters of owners of new homes had to call their builder back to fix something, a new survey says.

Building supply merchants are reluctant to stock products of Winstone Wallboards' rivals and are squeezing alternative goods.

A property developer Tony Gapes will be back in control of one of NZ's most intensive affordable housing projects if he settles a debt within 20 days.