As Auckland City corporates move on up to flash new high-rise towers nearer the waterfront, their dated, cast-off offices are being snapped up.

The McConnell family own construction company Hawkins. John McConnell talks to Jennifer Dann.

Downtown Auckland faces big traffic and public transport challenges with construction on the $2.5 billion underground railway to Mt Eden starting soon.

A revised design for the controversial SkyCity convention centre will be completed by the end of next month.

Auckland's rapidly expanding economy has prompted the city's biggest private developer to announce $220 million of new work.

Questions have been raised about Precinct Properties' planned $550 million 35-level Auckland tower.

Small business owners, particularly in the construction industry, should be breathing a sigh of relief this week.

Arch Hill residents have won concessions from big-box retailer Bunnings in an attempt to minimise the effects of the controversial new store on their Auckland neighbourhood.

Redevelopment and planning work for Auckland's newest CBD five-star hotel is taking longer than expected, delaying the Sofitel So opening.

A 14-unit Ponsonby apartment development is planned for a pocket 430sqm site in a street once the domain of character villas.

Finally there is progress on the St James Theatre and now all eyes will be on the developers to deliver.

Fletcher Construction's efforts here during World War II and its aftermath are detailed in a second huge volume about the business.

Auckland is being rebuilt before our eyes, as projects worth at least $10 billion-plus rise across the city.

A dispute over building defects at one of Auckland's biggest shopping malls was on the electronic online High Court list last Thursday.

A Melbourne engineer with some of London's biggest commercial and residential building projects under his belt is Fletcher Building's new housing boss.

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

The privatisation of Queen Elizabeth Square for a giant mall downtown in the CBD was initiated by Auckland Council last year, documents show.

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.

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.

Auckland Transport is about to begin buying more than 200 subterranean central Auckland properties for the proposed $2.86 billion City Rail Link.

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

Sometimes, good fortune arrives disguised as disaster. That's what happened on Karangahape Rd in central Auckland.

NZ's largest construction company will bring some of the world's biggest builders here for the $4 billion-plus new public private partnership contracts it wants to win.

About 600 construction workers are on the 17ha site of New Zealand's biggest new prison and the country's largest public-private partnership, which is recruiting staff now.