Construction

After a year of uncertainty, the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of the La Biennale di Venezia in 2021 has opened, featuring an  installation from UoA's Auckland's School of Architecture… Audio, Gallery

Builders are having to wait nearly half a year to get supplies and say it's getting worse.

It's putting strain on finishing projects, at a time when New Zealand desperately need more homes.

Our… Audio

Parliament is in line for a multi-million dollar upgrade - with three new buildings planned for the precinct.

The Speaker Trevor Mallard says the current set-up is sub-par, uneconomic and… Audio

A new documentary by building experts John Gray and Roger Levie has uncovered the shocking state of apartment buildings around New Zealand. Entitled A Living Hell: Apartment Disasters. Roger is with… Audio

Statistics from the Chief Coroner show one hundred and sixty one construction workers may have died from suicide between 2017 to 2020. The construction industry has the highest suicide numbers for any… Audio

To other news now and the country's biggest construction company has made a significant lift in its earnings thanks mainly to a strong housing market.

Fletcher Building has reported a profit of $121… Audio

Construction of Auckland's City Rail Link is well underway and don't local retailers know it. It's killing the heart of the city and turned it into a cone zone, the sound of construction replacing the… Audio

A new report puts the cost of having to fix defects in new house builds at $2.5b each year. The figure's been hammered out by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research in an analysis of direct… Audio

Former Samoan international Lama Tone tells Kathryn how rugby career ending injuries led him to architecture. Audio, Gallery

When Mike Leach turned 21, his parents brought him a one-way ticket to Canada so he could indulge in his love of bike racing. That was in 1989. Since then he has got married, had two kids and still… Audio, Gallery

Our weekend panellists Jane Clifton and Richard Harman offer their thoughts on the past week's news from Aotearoa and abroad. They're looking at Covid-19-related matters and the launch of the… Audio

Construction and infrastructure leaders are decrying the government's drip-feeding of new project announcements, saying that approach prioritises politics over jobs.

The government set up a… Audio

Casa Adelante, a breakthrough building in San Francisco, is showing it doesn't have to cost a fortune to build resilient housing that keeps functioning in a big earthquake. Audio

Three Minutes Max, succinct opinions from New Zealanders on topics of their choice. Here's Brad Olsen, Senior Economist at Infometrics, on investing in the foundations of New Zealand. Audio

We speak to the project leader Shayne Cunis. Audio

The construction sector can get back to work today, albeit with very strict safety rules. Employees will have to work at a distance from each other, some builders and allied trades will have to work… Audio