November 2008 Issue

1 What inspired you to apply for the chief executive’s role at the RMBF? I have been involved in the property sector from a valuation, […]

A Building Amendment Bill was introduced into Parliament earlier this year as one of the initiatives to help streamline the building consenting and approval system. […]

Workplace Safety Discounts are all about demonstrating good health and safety management practices, and are a great way to save 10% of an ACC work […]

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 — […]

The recent High Court decision of Associate Judge Doogue in Lawrence Bunting & Sara-Jane Gardner v Auckland City Council found the owners of a leaky […]

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 hands. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, and […]

Dunedin carpentry apprentice Joe Dobson has taken out the top award in the Registered Master Builders 2008 Apprentice of the Year competition, in association with […]

Building the foundation for an aluminium smelter furnace was never going to be an easy task. But carrying out the project between two fully operational […]

Each year the PlaceMakers House of the Year and RMB Commercial Project Awards receive hundreds of entries from all corners of the country.   Entries […]

These days it’s pretty rare to see a group of professionals working hard for nothing more than a good cause. But that’s exactly what happened […]

In the past six months, I have been to many RMB Associations, and witnessed the good work happening. A great example is the Little Elms […]

The Hawkes Bay’s Registered Master Builders and Certified Builders recently came together to take on the enormous challenge of erecting five buildings from the ground […]

A new political dawn has arrived with the centre-right taking power in Godzone. And, from what National spokesman for Building and Construction Nick Smith told […]