Whitianga apprentice wins Waikato
This year’s winner in the Waikato region was Aaron Blofield, employed by Brendo Builders in Whitianga.
One of Aaron’s major milestones in his apprenticeship has...
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...
Discounts worth checking out
Workplace Safety Discounts are all about demonstrating good health and safety management practices, and are a great way to save 10% of an ACC...
NZS 3604:1999 to undergo major revision
Standards New Zealand is seeking feedback from stakeholders regarding parts of NZS 3604:1999 — the key Standard for building timber-framed houses in New Zealand...
Limitation – leaky home owner left without a claim
The recent High Court decision of Associate Judge Doogue in Lawrence Bunting & Sara-Jane Gardner v Auckland City Council found the owners of a...
Jerusalem’s Wall of Tears
Forty-one years ago the Israeli army occupied Jerusalem. For the first time in nearly two millennia the city was united and back in Jewish...
Gateway package connects future apprentices
The Gateway programme is a government-funded work placement initiative for secondary school students, designed to strengthen the pathway from school into the workplace.
Year 11...
Steel frames: Cost-effective, durable, safe
There is more to a steel-framed home than meets the eye.
Good workmanship will always achieve a quality building. But all else being equal, National...
Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater
The former Government’s proposed restrictions on water flow generated a flood of responses recently.
It proposed draft alterations to the Building Code, restricting flow rates...
Replacing the faithful ute . . .
So it’s time to replace the faithful ute which has served you so well over the past three years? Now you have a problem,...