A construction boss is promoting alliance contracting as a means for having certainty over costs and delivery.

Bill English is poised to announce an initiative to align the Australian and New Zealand infrastructure markets.

Hawkins Infrastructure boss Rory Bishop says construction is adopting technology at an ever-increasing pace.

AWF Madison Group, the country's largest contract labour company, has bought IT recruitment group Absolute IT for $15.3 million. Absolute

Fletcher Building has lifted the amount it plans to spend on land for housing.

The value of building projects in the Bay of Plenty is expected to reach $1 billion this year.

Tauranga's struggling downtown shopping centre is to get a major boost with the construction of a new hotel and retail development.

Residential building consents fell for a second month, according to new figures from Statistics New Zealand.

Auckland land earmarked for a school will be turned into a 51-home development by February - with the homes built so they can be carted off when a school is needed.

Big building companies are tapping into social media to try to tempt young unemployed Aucklanders into construction trades. Fletcher

Fulton Hogan announces 11.3% lift in NPAT for June 30, 2016 year.

Has Fletcher Building boss Mark Adamson succeeded in turning around the sharemarket giant?

New Zealand's largest listed retirement village operator has had its application to build a huge new village in the Auckland suburb

Auckland's economic growth is far outstripping the rest of New Zealand's. Here's why.

Activity in Auckland and surrounding regions has pushed residential building consents to their highest annual total in more than a decade.

The pipeline of new Auckland housing will underpin a longer construction boom for the country.

COMMENT: The practical impacts of this new legislation will be significant and will ripple across the entire supply chain.

Auckland Council has budgeted $291mi for the leaky building disaster and its financial forecasts indicate it will become an inter-generational issue.

New Zealand's economy has grown at a faster pace than expected in the first quarter of 2016.

It's Auckland's biggest new tower and shopping centre - and Commercial Bay says H & M and HSBC will be tenants.

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

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

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

The liquidator was appointed to one of property developer Tony Gapes' companies.

The cost of construction materials is rising up to 10 per cent for some products due to strong demand.

Our economy appears to be humming along, with latest GDP stats showing a 0.9 percent lift in economic activity.

To have Zara and H&M announce their first NZ stores will be opening in late 2016 speaks volumes about our vision for Sylvia Park to be a world-class retailing destination.

Fletcher Building has become the first company of its kind to achieve Rainbow Tick certification.

Heavy hint that popular clothing chains Zara and Uniqlo will be part of huge Auckland development.