Skilled engineers are hot property
The need for skilled engineers and construction workers continues to grow in Christchurch and elsewhere in the New Zealand economy.
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.
Auckland's CBD has cranes on its horizon again, but not enough to resolve a critical office-space squeeze
The $30 billion rebuild of post-earthquake Christchurch will race ahead if local firms team up with British firms experienced in major construction projects.
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.
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.
Prime Minister John Key has announced a $212 million roading and construction package in a bid to shoreup National's vote in regional New Zealand for the election.
Propelled by the construction sector, the economy kept expanding at a brisk clip in the March 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.
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.
If your roof is leaking, your furnace is broken or you need a new gas fire installed, you may have to wait for a tradesperson.
New Zealand's biggest listed company, Fletcher Building, could be hurt by the Budget move to axe temporarily anti-dumping duties on building materials covering 90 per cent of a new home's construction, say experts.
Jobs and companies could be lost if masses of cheap overseas construction materials flood our boarders, say building companies.
Carter Holt Harvey, which sold its pulp, paper and packaging businesses last month, more than tripled gross margins at its Australian building supplies in 2013.