August 2009 Issue

Congratulations go to Richard Lee from K Young Ltd, the first lucky winner of Fletcher Aluminium’s exciting new fishing competition! Over the next five months, […]

Legislation to speed up the building consent process and reduce costs for builders has been passed by Parliament. The Building Amendment Act 2009, which came […]

Jennian Homes has recently seen a significant increase in building activity, with June sales more than doubling from previous months this year. Business development manager […]

Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) New Zealand buildings and infrastructure manager Tony Innes has been named the Telecom/ACENZ Future Leader 2009, in recognition of his leadership […]

Lale Ieremia has been appointed a director to the Board of Arrow International which is currently completing its 25th year as a project management and […]

It is often the case that one of the named respondents in any given leaky building claim will be the party that sold the property […]

Like some latter day philanderer, Wellington seems to have gotten over its long-professed, 103-year love affair with Athletic Park. It did so in quite unseemly […]

While the expression to “build a bridge” is often used in jest among families, it’s no joke for Bay of Plenty builder Ray Puhara and […]

One of the most frustrating forms of pollution in the home is also one of the easiest to deal with — noise pollution. Simple steps […]

To the best of my knowledge, every weathtertightness claim I have been involved with has included issues with window and door openings. At least 50% […]

It has been needed for many years, but the time has now come for a national building industry council to be established to self-regulate all […]

The recently completed concrete crib walls at Highbrook Business Park in Auckland are some the largest gravity walls of their kind built in the country […]

Entries have closed for the Registered Master Builders Carters 2009 Apprentice of the Year, with entry numbers well up on 2008 boding well for a […]

A stunning Waikanae property was a noteworthy development for S & J MacKay Builders, especially after it took out the New Homes $450,000 – $650,000 […]

A year after the Waitakere Acute Mental Health Unit was completed, Hawkins Construction was proud to show it off to the RMB Commercial Project Award […]

Prime Cost (PC) sums are an area of building contracts that can be a minefield of confusion for builders and their clients. A recent High […]

The New Zealand Fire Service provides emergency response services to communities across New Zealand thanks to more than 10,000 firefighters, 9000 of whom are volunteers. […]

The Taranaki Construction Safety Group recently hosted the first Taranaki Apprentice Safety Challenge day in New Plymouth. The group is an informal association of safety […]

Recently we’ve been reporting that we think our industry has reached the bottom of the trough and is showing slight signs of recovery, but there […]

When Registered Master Builder Stephen Jory of Jory Builders in Dunedin attended a function at his daughter’s school back in late 2007, he didn’t expect […]

“You can have any colour as long as it’s black” — those were the famous words spoken by Henry Ford when he offered the Model-T […]