A record number of cranes have transformed the Auckland skyline, illustrating the city¹s multi-billion dollar upswing in construction.

Construction cranes are not often objects of pictorial celebration but they should be.

COMMENT: If council issued infrastructure bonds and tied them to rates targeted to residents of developments it could kill a couple of birds with one stone.

Fulton Hogan managing director Nick Miller will leave after seven years in charge.

An Onehunga property owner has been fined $30,000 for building a garage without a resource consent.

Auckland Council bought ASB Tower for $104 million after only carrying out a visual inspection.

The busiest two years of the 20-year Wynyard Quarter regeneration are now in full swing.

A record 47 tower cranes are at work across Auckland's skyline, evidence of the city's booming construction market.

Gilda Kirkpatrick has called it a "giant white boob" but the Auckland dome is almost ready to house thousands of tonnes of cement.

Carter Holt Harvey has launched a final effort to toss out a claims it's liable for 890 leaky school buildings.

The NZTA has released footage of a drone flying over the construction of Waterview footbridge.

Urgent remedial work is underway in an Auckland housing project due to fears the houses are unsafe.

Stats NZ figures show 2379 new dwellings were consented last month, the highest for a February since 2004 and up 35 per cent on the same month a year ago.

New Zealand needs more tradies - and women are being urged to take up the tools to help address a looming shortage.

The value of building consents last month rose to a record-breaking $66 million - but the mountain of construction work means many builders are booked out for the whole year.

Construction on the $681 million Commercial Bay project will begin in downtown Auckland in June.

COMMENT: The problems of a growing Auckland are becoming more and more urgent. We need to rethink the region, write Dushko Bogunovich and Matthew Bradbury.

Businesses connected to Stonewood Homes, which was placed in receivership this week, say they are unaffected.

Receivers says unsecured creditors are owed about $15 million and they hope to sell the business.

A construction sector subcontractor has expressed sympathy for Christchurch people who were now caught up in the receivership of the Stonewood businesses.

Stonewood Homes New Zealand, is in receivership, but home buyers have been told they've got a guarantee.

Director who ran trio of failed property companies owing more than $6 million is missing.

Residents of well-heeled Auckland suburbs are bristling at plans for new Special Housing Areas in their backyards.

The Government says there are strong prospects for construction, infrastructure and the IT sector. But things look dim for actors, pilots and air traffic controllers.

New Zealand shares rose, led by Fletcher Building after the country's biggest construction company bought a roading firm.

Fletcher executives will face protests from a small Maori community in Mangere when they attend a planning hearing tomorrow for a proposed new housing project.