Like a deer caught in the headlights . .
The current house price situation is a bit of a fairy tale for property owners although, unlike the three little pigs where the home...
Planning for growth in a weather-beaten world
Building Today columnist Ross Middleton says the Government wants houses, and lots of them — the irony being that the world is currently strangling...
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...
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...
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...
Don’t panic Captain Mainwaring!
Building Today columnist Ross Middleton sees a Dad’s Army irony in all the blather around Covid as it continues to disrupt. “Permission to speak...
Residential building supplies market study: what will it reveal?
Building Today's resident troublemaker Ross Middleton says while the good old plasterboard paradise is in abeyance, there is further irony in that the present...