News and Media Releases
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30 September 2019
The relationship between the Council and the local plumbing industry was celebrated at the 2019 Waikato Master Plumbers Awards last week.
25 September 2019
If New Zealand's construction industry is to thrive, the bottom line is that clients, particularly government ones, are going to have to pay more for buildings.
24 September 2019
Construction work in New Zealand is still at record levels despite a fall in the number of cranes standing tall on the skyline.
20 September 2019
The Government is taking action to ensure that the construction industry is ready and able to deliver greater quantities of warm, dry, affordable homes says Housing Minister Megan Woods.
20 September 2019
Invercargill City Council chief executive Clare Hadley says staff poaching throughout the country is rife as the city struggles to meet building consent demands.
20 September 2019
Her house reduced to little more than a storage shed, Cushla McCarthy is living New Zealand's flood-prone future.
20 September 2019
Kelvin Wilson built his own house at the weekends, over 10 months, but it had taken him nine months to get the consent in the first place.
17 September 2019
Directors of the failed Stanley Group of construction companies told the liquidator they now believe they under-priced a flagship Housing New Zealand (HNZ) project by as much as $2 million.
17 September 2019
Emails show the mayor of Lower Hutt was told in February that bad plumbing in a retirement complex was life-threatening.
17 September 2019
The housing market in the Bay of Plenty makes it difficult to rent a house, let alone buy or build one.