Flexibility the key for smaller sawmills’ production output
Why is Northland sawmill Northpine increasingly focusing on specialty timber products, including SG10, when the country is desperately short of standard SG8 building products?...
Help, my phone’s not ringing!
Andy Burrows — The Trades Coach — outlines a few options to keep that phone ringing with job leads to help you through the...
Re-roofing highlights H1 limitations
Roofing Association NZ (RANZ) chief executive Graham Moor is happy that H1 Energy Efficiency changes have been delayed, but says re-roofing an existing house...
Unfortunate boom-bust cycle alive and kicking
Registered Master Builders Association president Johnny Calley says to build a more sustainable construction industry in New Zealand, policymakers and industry stakeholders must take...
Sloan: Greater design oversight needed to deal with developer ‘gold rush’
An international architect and urban planning specialist is calling for the reinstatement of a century-old government agency to provide strategic design oversight as New...
New phase emerging in NZ timber market
Northpine general manager Bruce Larsen predicts that the timber market will be much more in balance by the end of the 2022-23 financial year,...
New employer accreditation: A frustrating, time-consuming process
Building Recruitment director and Building Today columnist Kevin Everett’s Building Today May article was based around the new accreditation process for employing migrant workers....
Just do your job!
Influential U senior faculty member John Baigent explains the need and benefit of having the right mix of ‘Transactional Personalities’ in your team to...
Good communication essential in busy times
During the construction boom, good communication is the key to delivering a successful project, registered architect and Te Kahui Whaihanga president Judi Keith-Brown writes.In...
Work Based Learning chief executive appointed
BCITO chief executive Toby Beaglehole has been appointed chief executive of Te Pukenga Work Based Learning Ltd (WBL), a subsidiary of Te Pukenga.
BCITO chair...