July 2017 Issue

How’s your sports trivia knowledge? Try Radio Sport Breakfast co-host Kent Johns’ Sports Trivia Quiz and go into the draw to win some cool prizes! […]

After the heartbreak in San Francisco four years ago, Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) boss Grant Dalton needed financial help to re-sign key personnel, and […]

I recently arrived back from the UK on a Monday morning at 4.30am. Having walked around Devon and London in a mini heatwave of 34° […]

We can sometimes fail to recall exactly what happened in the past and why it happened. For example, I couldn’t remember what triggered the original […]

This case involved an application for summary judgment by the plaintiff, Service Painting and Building Co Pty Ltd (SPB), claiming the sum of $140,618.77, from […]

A building challenge giving secondary students hands-on experience of an apprenticeship is appealing to those looking to nail their career options straight out of school. […]

20 years ago: • Bringing to reality Mount Maunganui’s revitalisation scheme won an Auckland firm the supreme award in 1997’s New Zealand Institute of Landscape […]

By Juken New Zealand Ltd (JNL) managing director Masa Ueki You may have seen the recent media coverage regarding J-Frame. We are writing to provide information […]

Today’s market is proliferated with a wide range of timber and timber-based flooring products, including the more traditional solid tongue and groove products and parquetry, […]

Jalcon Homes has launched a new initiative targeted at Auckland’s growing urban population — a Design and Build Hub — where all questions relating to […]

A nationally consistent system for managing earthquake-prone buildings (EPBs) which  changes the way EPBs are identified, assessed and managed came into effect on July 1. […]

New Zealand’s construction industry will come together in August at the “all-of-industry” Constructive forum, tackling one of New Zealand’s key political issues just six weeks […]

Entries for the Registered Master Builders CARTERS 2017 Apprentice of the Year have now closed. Talented apprentices from across the country are ready to go […]

Building his dream home resulted in a national category win for Jeff Root of Casa Construction for his first-ever entry in the Registered Master Builders […]

An ongoing commitment to quality resulted in a fourth regional supreme award for Planit Construction at the Wellington and Wairarapa Registered Master Builders 2016 competition. […]

Built in the late 19th Century, Nelson’s Suter Art Gallery is one of New Zealand’s oldest galleries, sharing its walls with art lovers for well […]

The RMBA is delighted to be hosting the second all-of-industry Constructive Forum taking place in Auckland on August 2-4, just six weeks out from the […]

The University of Waikato has chosen Hawkins Construction to build the new Tauranga CBD tertiary campus development. Activity on the Durham Street site in central […]

Some of New Zealand’s largest construction companies have joined forces to improve workplace health and safety. Arrow International, Cassidy Construction, Dominion Constructors, Fletcher Construction, Hawkins […]

Having a lone worker solution is a good start, but there are many sad, and to us, frustrating stories about lone worker solutions which didn’t […]