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A new green "ecolabel" has been launched to help tackle the truckloads of construction and demolition waste going to New Zealand landfills.

New Construction Procurement Guidelines were jointly announced by Economic Development Minister Phil Twyford and Building and Construction Minister Jenny Salesa.

Owners of Mt Maunganui's The Pacific Apartments are set for a 10-week hearing next year over a leaky building repair bill estimated at $16 million.

When Saleh Ghiyath and Leila El-Yassir signed a contract with builder KB Project Management Ltd in 2017 to build their dream home, they never thought that two-and-half years later they would be $560,000 out of pocket and yet to move in.

Building consent applications in the Mackenzie District between January and August 2019 have increased in number by 14 per cent and in value by more than 50 per cent on the same period last year.

The contract for the first stage of the lakefront development has been signed and work will get underway at the end of October.

A tiny house in Motueka has become the centre of a big row between its owner and the local council.

The technical director of an Australasian sustainable business organisation said the changing climate would influence how homes were built in future.

It is the issue that will have to surface eventually. Why are people saying both slab and ring foundations were systematically under-scoped following the earthquakes?