News and Media Releases
Please see below for news and media releases relating to Building Officials.
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3 October 2019
Engineering New Zealand (formerly IPENZ) will continue its complaints process against engineer Alan Reay over his alleged part in the CTV building debacle.
2 October 2019
A Christchurch property developer spent about $30,000 on consent fees to replace a dilapidated villa with units, only for a council panel to reject his plans.
1 October 2019
The Government is attempting to reset the construction industry's troublesome 'lowest-price model'.
30 September 2019
The relationship between the Council and the local plumbing industry was celebrated at the 2019 Waikato Master Plumbers Awards last week.
25 September 2019
If New Zealand's construction industry is to thrive, the bottom line is that clients, particularly government ones, are going to have to pay more for buildings.
24 September 2019
Construction work in New Zealand is still at record levels despite a fall in the number of cranes standing tall on the skyline.
20 September 2019
The Government is taking action to ensure that the construction industry is ready and able to deliver greater quantities of warm, dry, affordable homes says Housing Minister Megan Woods.
20 September 2019
Invercargill City Council chief executive Clare Hadley says staff poaching throughout the country is rife as the city struggles to meet building consent demands.
20 September 2019
Her house reduced to little more than a storage shed, Cushla McCarthy is living New Zealand's flood-prone future.
20 September 2019
Kelvin Wilson built his own house at the weekends, over 10 months, but it had taken him nine months to get the consent in the first place.
