The Ormiston Rise development was being built and opened in stages and is a mix of KiwiBuild and private owners. Video / Supplied

While the city was sleeping, Auckland’s urban ngahere / forest welcomed home the first two of seven mature pōhutukawa to Quay Street in a nine-hour crane operation last night. Video / Auckland Council

Time-lapse footage of construction at Omana North. Video / Omana North

With more than half of Auckland's houses selling for over $1 million, the government is considering extending the bright-line test from five to ten years. Video / Will Trafford

Linda Trainer GM asset Management Kiwi Property talks about the Sylvia Park expansion. Video / Michael Craig / Kiwi Property

Napier Civic Building to be demolished. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Developer fined $74,000 for over-charging affordable homes. Video / Auckland Council / Supplied

Focus: Ebert subcontractors go unpaid.

Careers in Infrastructure: Harley Haywood.

Outfit with own supply chain would force pricing rethink, says expert.

Tommy Parker local training and upskilling is an imperative.

Since Mainzeal collapsed five years ago there has been considerable industry turmoil.

Precision Construction is building this new house in Sarsfield St, Herne Bay.

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

Aucklanders are about to endure a "five-year nightmare" as work starts on a raft of major jobs, including the New Zealand International Convention Centre.

The boss of the $850 million Transmission Gully project worked on one of Queensland's biggest motorway jobs before shifting here.

China Construction Bank New Zealand is on a recruiting drive as it pushes for a slice of the growing market facilitating trade between this country and the world's second-biggest economy.

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.

Scaffolding has been taken down before work is completed on what was promoted as Auckland's newest five-star luxury hotel.

Neighbours have failed to stop Ryman Healthcare getting consent for a $100 million-plus village between Greenlane and One Tree Hill.

Another construction industry player has criticised Fletcher Building's dominant position in New Zealand's plasterboard market via its Winstone Wallboards.

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

Money that Mainzeal Property & Construction owed to its staff, a trading bank and Inland Revenue has been largely repaid.

Construction workers are at Auckland University's Newmarket campus site, preparing former warehouses for the first students to move in from late July.

Australia's economic growth isn't losing pace and might have even picked up a little as the non-mining sectors of the economy start to recover.

The collapse of Mainzeal has people worrying about who will construct the residential and commercial buildings required for Christchurch, writes Liam Dann.