Are you getting the service the fees demand?
Building Recruitment managing director Kevin Everett says taking unethical shortcuts to hire staff will backfire in the long term.
I often talk about the skills...
Cost escalation in a post-pandemic world
Timothy Bates and Bodene Robertson-Wright of Auckland law firm Tim Bates & Co highlight some common construction contract issues to look out for, and...
All about power
Ross Middleton says you can hardly produce a column called ‘Roof Irony’, continue ad-libbing about how hot it is up there, and not get...
Like a runaway climate change train on a downhill line
Ross Middleton says we might be a humble building industry magazine, but that doesn’t mean we have no room on the roof for Friedrich...
Through the 3D glass, darkly
Feel the irony? Ross Middleton says building is in a boom but reckons the economic worm is turning while costs are heading one way...
Hyperinflation, shortages, sending NZ building industry into potential meltdown
EasyBuild director Mike Fox says he’s heard anecdotes indicating that the number of product price increases builders are dealing with are up 156% on...
What’s with all this HR stuff?
Tradie HR director Leigh Olsen explains exactly what HR is really all about.
I am often asked, so what do you HR lot actually do?...
Christchurch school wins NZCPA Supreme Award
Te Raekura Redcliffs School has won the Supreme Award at the New Zealand Commercial Project Awards 2021.
Entrant Naylor Love Canterbury worked closely with the...
Constructive 2021: Restructuring New Zealand
By RMBA chief executive David Kelly
New Zealand has a problem. As a sector, how do we step up to the huge challenge of delivering...
The true cost of losing an employee
Building Recruitment managing director and Building Today columnist Kevin Everett says losing staff is more costly than you think, and provides 10 tips for...