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Importance of non-structural elements

Prompted by recent seismic activity across the country, MBIE has issued two practice advisories detailing the importance of ensuring non-structural…

Residential construction booming

Statistics New Zealand’s Value of Building work report for the September quarter shows the residential construction sector won’t be cooling…

Female workers an untapped resource

BCITO identifies education as key to overcoming challenges on both sides of the fence While the proportion of women working…

Board decision on design quality

The Building Practitioners Board (the Board) recently made a significant disciplinary decision regarding negligence, incompetence and disrepute caused by Design…

Building and housing

Builders’ confidence high

Activity expectations within the construction sector reached a two-year peak in the latest ANZ Business Outlook survey The survey shows…

Construction reaches new heights

Increase in crane numbers a visual indicator of building activity The latest edition of the Rider Levett Bucknall Crane Index…

MBIE to investigate Wellington’s Statistics House

Following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that devastated Kaikoura and affected a number of buildings in Wellington’s CBD, MBIE has released…

Going green for Blue September

PlaceMakers Mt Wellington’s annual charity golf tournament and auction on 15 November proved to be a smash hit, as those…

Community & Sponsorship

Injury claims on the rise?

Statistics New Zealand provisional data shows that the total number of work-related injury claims increased by 1.5% in 2015 compared…

Reducing the risk of earthquake damage

In the light of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated Kaikoura on 14 November and the associated aftershocks, which have…

PlaceMakers dominates Hardware Awards!

PlaceMakers’ clean sweep at the Annual Hardware Awards is testament to the quality of its people and its values PlaceMakers…

Community & Sponsorship