Auckland Council is in urgent need of dozens of qualified building inspectors.

Plans for $1.2 billion of new homes in the Three Kings Quarry in Auckland are up in the air.

A Christchurch-based property chief expressed shock at the scale of Canterbury building company liquidations.

Fletcher Residential is well advanced with 99 new apartments and terraced residences beside its Three Kings Quarry in Mt Eden. Tatua

A construction materials "crunch" prompted New Zealand's biggest listed retirement business to take matters into its own hands. Ryman

One of Auckland's most active heritage groups, Devonport Heritage, is meeting on September 14 to vote on the appointment of a liquidator.

Queenstown mayoral candidate Jim Boult is to be investigated in relation to the collapse of Stonewood Homes New Zealand Ltd, something

The annual report shows Adamson's base remuneration lifted to $1,956,250 from $1,875,000.

COMMENT: Fletcher Building boss Mark Adamson is seriously in danger of morphing into a long-term CEO.

Harry Doig, Puketapapa Local Board deputy chair, said the community was delighted with the decision.

Construction of a new $1.2 million driving attraction at Rainbow's End Theme Park is well advanced.

Fletcher Residential is pondering a damning Environment Court ruling over its plans for a $1.2b housing estate in Auckland's Three Kings quarry pit.

The Environment Court has ruled that a string of issues must be addressed before Fletcher Residential can develop a new $1.2b housing estate.

Cecil Sinclair has lost his building licence and copped a record three-year ban.

Auckland's new $1.4 billion twin-tunnel Waterview Connection will open early next year.

COMMENT: There's a cargo cult hysteria erupting over the magical cure-all abilities of Auckland Council's proposed unitary plan.

Activity in Auckland and surrounding regions has pushed residential building consents to their highest annual total in more than a decade.

The pipeline of new Auckland housing will underpin a longer construction boom for the country.

Two publicly-owned companies spearheading the city's rebuild have average salary rates in excess of $120,000.

COMMENT: The practical impacts of this new legislation will be significant and will ripple across the entire supply chain.

The prefabrication construction sector can handle Government demands for modular Auckland residences, says its boss.

Fletcher Building has gained Commerce Commission clearance to acquire rival construction company Higgins Group.

An office administrator bullied, abused and sexually harassed by her boss has been awarded $18,000 in compensation.

Our biggest building company is off to London as it searches for new staff to help keep up with a massive boom in construction work.

A tightening labour market and a slight lift in pricing intentions are among the early signs that inflation may finally be starting to edge up.

China Construction is massive and now it's here - having just won the contract to build a huge new hotel on Auckland's waterfront.

Business optimism jumps on the back of construction and tourism industries.

The value of all residential buildings based on those consents is $11.4 billion.

The half-hectare $60 million Red Stag Timber "mega-mill" is almost as big as a rugby field and the materials and construction techniques used were unusual.

Half the floor of one of New Zealand's biggest new supermarkets at a $40 million Tauranga scheme has been torn up and re-laid, the store's owner says.