Building

The Commerce Commission has taken aim at certain building material suppliers, as well as rebate and loyalty schemes, as part of its much-anticipated report into the residential building supplies… Audio

Time to check in with the Local Democracy Reporting team now and this morning we join David Hill in North Canterbury where things are growing at a rate of knots. Audio

Entire New Zealand communities could have to move to higher ground due to climate change. That was a takeaway from a major government report released by Climate Change Minister James Shaw yesterday… Audio

Tradies say the theft of their tools and equipment is happening far more often than it used to and the thieves are getting pretty sophisticated. Nathan Rarere spoke with the New Zealand Certified… Audio

Industry experts suggest Auckland is on track for another building material shortage due to a shortage of quarries in the region. Currently, one in six truckloads of quarried materials that come into… Audio

Occupiers of potentially quake prone buildings are being told that scoring a low safety rating shouldn't necessarily mean they have to evacuate the building.

Officials have fast-tracked the release… Audio

Wellington's historic St James Theatre reopens today after earthquake restrengthening that began three years ago. The Category One Heritage building in Courtenay Place was built in 1912 and houses the… Audio

A ministerial taskforce will meet next week to address plasterboard shortages.

The group - set up by Minister for Building and Construction Megan Woods - includes key construction, building consent… Audio

The public has voted. New Zealand's home in Antarctica will be painted kakariki green. Irwyn Smith was down there in the sixties as Post Master and radio operator, and helped paint the original Scott… Audio

New Zealand has spoken and voted to keep Scott Base research station in Antarctica kakariki - green!

Voters had the choice between green, orange and blue and allowed people to be a part of the design… Audio

Transmission Gully, the Christchurch stadium, the Waterview Tunnel, the Wellington Town Hall - why do big infrastructure projects take longer and cost more than we expect? Audio

Fletcher Building has trade marked four colours of plasterboard in New Zealand with another colour pending, meaning it has the exclusive rights to make and sell the product blue, mauve, pink and green… Audio

As the Gib shortage continues to place a stranglehold on the construction sector, some key players hope a new solution can be found.

The Building Industry Federation met with the Ministry of Business… Audio

Simplicity Living will meet with Fletcher Building this Friday, to ask for answers to the Gib supply crisis.

Simplicity has cancelled its contracts with Fletcher and instead started importing foreign… Audio

A crisis meeting has been called between KiwiSaver provider Simplicity and Fletcher Building over impact GIB supply problems are having on its $35 million-worth of shares.

Last week, Simplicity's… Video, Audio

There has been a shock announcement that Hutt Hospital's main building is an earthquake risk and must close.

The building built in the mid 70s, houses 70 percent of beds at the hospital including the… Audio