Southland community embraces Winton
PlaceMakers is delighted to open its new store in Winton, its fourth location in the Southland region With an official…
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Sharing solutions for H1 changes
With the biggest energy efficiency changes to the Building Code in over a decade only six months away, PlaceMakers is…
Insulation implications
Builders’ Business is a column by builders for builders. Its objective is to provide a forum, particularly for small business…
Rising costs worry 95% of builders
More than 9/10 tradies are worried about the rising cost of doing business, says a new report by the Registered…
Multi-unit homes up by a third
The year ended July 2022 saw a 35% increase in the annual number of new multi-unit homes consented compared to…
ITP merge underway
The country’s 16 institutes of technology and polytechnics have been brought under the same roof From 6 October, all 16…
NZ produces surplus of homes
New Zealand built a surplus of homes in the year to March 2022 and is forecast to go into surplus…
Builders get plasterboard boost
Plasterboard suppliers received a boost in August when more than half-a-million square metres of plasterboard hit Kiwi shores In the…
Multi-unit home consents up 36%
More than 50,000 new homes were consented in the year ended June 2022 – the fourth time in a row…
SELF-INSPECTION OPTION TOUTED
Master Brick and Blocklayers CEO Brian Miller shares details on the organisation’s innovative app solution to expedite consenting for members…
LBP SCHEME REVIEW IN DETAIL
Feedback from LBPs strongly suggests the LBP scheme could be improved and some areas of licence classes reformed. In this…
Consent systems report: Part One
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has released its evaluation of the building consent system report. This is…
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