19/12/2008 – New guidance to help with building consent amendments
A Building Amendment Bill was introduced into Parliament earlier this year as one of the initiatives to help streamline the building consenting and approval...
Protect businesses, jobs and skills by investing in the vertical construction industry
The chief executive of one of New Zealand’s leading commercial construction companies is asking the Government to consider underwriting the vertical construction industry as...
Larsen: Any number of obstacles could trip up forestry industry transformation process
Northpine Ltd general manager Bruce Larsen wonders if the draft Forestry and Wood Processing Industry Transformation Plan will see forestry, timber manufacturing and the...
The Falling from Heights campaign — justifying the costs
Following the publication of my article in Building Today September 2015 titled The Real Cost of the Falling From Heights Campaign, I sent copies...
Working with timber weatherboards
In Building Today June 2015, Mike Fox expressed concern at what he saw as a problem with “shrinking timber
weatherboards”, and at the failure of wood...
Challenges ahead says Canadian energy efficiency expert
Canada 20 years ahead of New Zealand in terms of building energy efficient homes
New Zealand homes need improved levels of insulation and...
New building consent exemptions from August 2020 — what do they really mean?
Building Today columnist and EasyBuild director Mike Fox says overall, the changes allowing more building projects to be completed without a building consent are...
Significance of industry cannot be overstated
RMBA president Simon Barber welcomed delegates to the second Constructive Forum with a thought-provoking speech that addressed a number of issues facing the sector.
It...
Building boom — a bonanza or potential graveyard for builders?
It is often naively said that builders make a fortune in the boom times. If that’s the case, why is it that so many...
New ways to reduce housing costs must be found
New ways must be found to reduce constrcution costs in New Zealand after a recent survey of housing affordability across 22 markets found this...