Building

Wellington City Councillor Tamatha Paul says it isn't good enough that Loafers Lodge was only inspected twice in a decade, when it should have been checked once per year.

Councillors were briefed… Audio

Eight months before the Loafers Lodge fire, Wellington City Council was warned it wasn't completing enough fire safety checks.

The Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) found the… Audio

In the push to get more people living in higher density housing, have our fire and building regulations been left behind? Audio

 A research team at the University of Auckland has successfully used artificial intelligence to evaluate the actual value of companies. Dr Helen Lu is a senior lecturer accounting and finance, at the… Audio

Today on part two of The Panel, Wallace and panellists Ali Jones and Martin Bosley discuss the scrutiny our building regulations are facing in light of the tragedy at a Wellington hostel last week… Audio

Papakura Marae in south Auckland has been going for more than 40 years providing cultural, health and social services to the local community. Kaumatua Brian Joyce is the chairman and has been at… Audio

There is no sprinkler system in the Loafer's Lodge, which has three residential floors and more than 90 residents.

Witnesses said the fire alarms did not go off automatically, and residents ran down… Video, Audio

Some Waikato builders are still sending leftover construction material to landfill, despite the council's plan to minimise and recycle waste.

Currently, 50 percent of what goes to landfill comes from… Audio

Health bosses desperate to recruit new cancer doctors to crisis-hit Dunedin Hospital, will need to sell them on cramped spaces and shuttling up and down the street.

Te Whatu Ora has pledged to fix… Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

Building and construction companies are being liquidated at twice the rate of the also-beleaguered hospitality industry.  Audio

Today on The Panel Wallace and panellists Julie Woods and Mark Knoff-Thomas look into falling passing rates in highschools. Plus, the new design at Wellington's bus interchange. Audio

he southern hemisphere's first commercial building utilising 3D printed concrete has just been completed in Hamilton. The building was completed by Iconic Construction using QOROX walls. Company… Audio

Hundreds of Wellington people opposed to a big housing development high up on the site of an old prison are demanding to have a say in the project. Local iwi through the Port Nicholson Block… Audio