The Ministry of Education has begun legal action against major building product companies over its huge repair bill for leaky school buildings.

With the rebuilding of Christchurch gaining momentum, some engineering and construction firms are looking overseas for people with the skills they need.

Residents of the small inner Auckland suburb of Arch Hill are taking on hardware giant Bunnings over its plans for a warehouse store on the former Summit House site in Great North Rd.

A towering 108-level Melbourne apartment/hotel block set to be one of the world's tallest buildings will be about 30 storeys higher than Auckland's Sky Tower.

Australia's housing sector is in the tentative stages of a recovery as investors and homeowners take advantage of low interest rates.

A building industry official has hit back at criticism about material pricing on big construction jobs and a threat to source concrete for the new Christchurch Convention Centre from Mexico.

The future of a residential building company with unfinished houses in Hamilton and Auckland is unclear today, with creditors owed millions of dollars.

A national building industry conference has been told that seismic fears are now dominating the sector.

A new rulebook that sets out to build high-rise apartments and turn rural land into housing is becoming a tough ask for Auckland Mayor Len Brown and his deputy Penny Hulse.

Insurance giant Tower must pay out a Christchurch couple for a like-for-like replacement on another site, after their home was damaged in the earthquakes.

New Zealand's biggest civil engineering, roading and resources business has denied a report it is being put up for sale.

Mainzeal liquidators were asked about the possibility of fraud at a creditors' meeting in Auckland today.

Canberra's $358 million Majura Parkway contract is one of the largest won by Fulton Hogan.

Kiwi Income Property Trust suing the builder of $540 million shopping mall over alleged building defects.

New Zealand's biggest civil engineering and resource business, Fulton Hogan, has a $3.7 billion forward order book, nearly four times the size of Fletcher's Construction's $1.1 billion.

Every time I use the Victoria Park Tunnel in the daytime I notice drivers in front of me, to the side and behind turn their car lights on and then, a few seconds later, turn them off when emerging at the other end.

Fletcher Building and Goodman Group are planning a $500 million four- to five-building commercial office precinct near Auckland's waterfront, a boss involved in the deal says.

A fee for tapping into the waterworks in parts of Auckland has gone up by 900 per cent in the past two years - from less than $850 to almost $8000.

Damien Grant writes: By law, Watercare has to keep the overall costs of water at minimum levels.

State Highway One north of Taupo has a new bridge across the Waikato River, which traffic began using yesterday.

Building and Construction Minister Maurice Williamson has thumbed his nose at public watchdog the Ombudsman by refusing to refund hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegally gathered industry levies to plumbers and other tradespeople.

The towns of Pukekohe and Warkworth and communities served by the Northwestern Motorway are among rural areas earmarked to contribute to Auckland's population.

A battle over whether job growth should come at the expense of the South Auckland countryside will go to a hearing by Auckland Council-appointed planning commissioners next month or early May.

The Government is under fire for fast-tracking legislation which retrospectively legalises the unlawful collection of thousands of dollars in fees from plumbers and gasfitters.