New aluminium factory to make significant contribution to Christchurch
“A big boost to the rebuild”. That’s how Christchurch-based Fletcher Aluminium South Island window and door manager Darrell Gane is describing a new multi-million...
Awards keep flying in for MOTAT
Following on from the array of architecture awards won last year, MOTAT’s Aviation Display Hall in Auckland, which opened last November at a cost...
Mesh now available for reinforcing concrete slabs-on-ground
Grade 500E reinforcing mesh, specified in the Department of Building and Housing’s latest version of Acceptable Solution B1/AS1 for the reinforcement of concrete slabs-on-ground,...
DBH works to speed up Christchurch rebuild
The Department of Building and Housing is supporting the Christchurch City Council to improve its building consenting processes and its ways of working to...
Industry seeing potential in BIM
Masterspec, the producers of New Zealand’s national specification system — in conjunction with BRANZ and NBS (UK) — has released a report on its...
Property Council appoints new president
Tony Sewell, chief executive of Ngai Tahu Property Ltd has been elected Property Council national president in Auckland recently. As new national president,...
Construction one of five sectors with poor workplace fatalities record
A review of the Department of Labour’s Workplace Health and Safety Strategy to 2015 revealed a gap between the high level strategy framework and...
New guidelines to prevent falls on site
Minister of Labour Kate Wilkinson has recently launched new guidance to reduce the workplace death and injury toll from falls in the construction sector....
Lockwood Homes survives the test of time
Developed and patented in 1951 by Dutch immigrants Joe La Grouw Snr and John van Loghem, the Lockwood Building System is an engineering innovation...
Canterbury builders confident with most entries in House of the Year
Canterbury builders have embraced the Registered Master Builders PlaceMakers 2012 House of the Year by submitting the most entries for a single region in...