July 2012 Issue

Businesses looking to reduce their energy costs will now be able to call on specialists trained in New Zealand’s first-ever comprehensive Energy Management accreditation programme. […]

The Cement and Concrete Association of New Zealand’s (CCANZ) 2012 Concrete3 Sustainability Awards are now open for entry, offering those in the construction industry the […]

New guidelines to help prevent workers falling from roofs have been launched to the roofing industry. Best Practice Guidelines for Working on Roofs was prepared […]

Welcome to the first in a series of articles based on a series of workshops on weathertight remediation for builders which the Department of Building […]

20 years ago: • Two law changes went ahead despite firm opposition from the Master Builders’ Federation. The Industry Training Act was “doomed to failure […]

At the time of a personal career change in the late 1990s, when I moved from architecture to working with industry organisations and government departments, […]

The case MJN McNaughton Ltd (“MJN”) had manufactured and delivered timber joinery to a building site of a residential building that Nikau Living Ltd (in […]

The Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO) has begun to give out around $50,000 worth of grants for employers within the construction industry. This […]

It’s been dubbed the Dunning Thornton Damper, designed in response to the specific requirements for the seismic strengthening of the Harbour City Centre. Modern earthquake […]

Our geologists have told us over the years that for many of Wellington’s fine buildings and their occupants the threat of earthquakes is real. After […]

Last month Building Today profiled Trades Coaching New Zealand, a 100% Kiwi-owned subsidiary of Business Coaching New Zealand which has been working with New Zealand […]

Entries for the Registered Master Builders Carters 2012 Apprentice of the Year competition have now closed, with regional events set to kick off in September. […]

Landmark Homes Wellington hit the perfect formula for success with their Porirua show home in the Registered Master Builders PlaceMakers 2011 House of the Year. […]

Allan Austen, managing director of Ascension Homes Ltd, has had a long career in construction — he started building houses with his father at the […]

Change was the order of the day at the Registered Master Builders Federation AGM at the Federation’s Conference 2012 in Tauranga recently. With resounding support […]

More than 300 industry people gathered in sunny but chilly Tauranga for the Registered Master Builders Federation annual conference last month. With a conference theme […]

The Taranaki Registered Master Builders Association reached a milestone landmark recently when it held its 100th AGM at the Quality Inn in New Plymouth in […]

After five years on the board, two as vice-president, it is an honour for me to be elected president of RMBF and follow on from […]

We are now midway through the year, and are we indeed starting to experience what we have been musing for some time now — that […]