Member Spotlight: Isaac Kett

Posted on Tuesday 01 October, 2024

On 30 August at the 2024 NZ Building People Awards Isaac Kett was named as the GIB Supreme Winner! Earlier in the evening Isaac had won the Keystone Trust Consultants | Matanga Award category.

He was nominated for his work as Delivery, Interface and Design Manager on the Pukekohe to Papakura (P2P) Project in Tāmaki | Auckland. Isaac is a Senior Associate at Frequency.

While we heard about Issac’s project on the night and in his citation we asked him a few questions to get to know the person behind the project.

Read on to find out more about Isaac including what he’d like to see change in the industry, who inspires him, and his Salsa habit.

Honouring our Institute Members

Posted on Tuesday 03 September, 2024

On Friday 30 August we celebrated excellence in the construction industry at the 2024 NZ Building People Awards. Along with honouring our fantastic finalists and winners we also took the opportunity to honour some of our outstanding Institute volunteers with Member Honour Awards.

The NZ Institute of Building relies heavily on the generosity of time, energy and care from its members. There are so many fantastic people giving their dedication and passion to the Institute – four of those people were honoured at the Awards.

Terry Buchan, Hayley Groves and Guy Marriage received Regional Member Honour Awards and Graeme Birkhead was awarded an Institute Service Medal. 

NZ Building People Awards 2024 Winners Announced

Posted on Monday 02 September, 2024

More than 600 construction industry professionals came together on Friday 30 August to celebrate the winners of the 2024 NZ Building People Awards. The gala dinner celebrating the excellence of the people behind the projects took place at the Viaduct Events Centre in Tāmaki | Auckland.

Winners and highly commended finalists, along with a couple of special mentions, were announced across ten categories with a Supreme Winner named to top the evening off. The Resene Next Gen Awards were also announced as part of the evening with three winners and one supreme winner named.

 Congratulations to all the finalists, special mentions, highly commended and winners of the 2024 NZ Building People Awards.

Pamela Bell - new Chair of NZCIC  

Posted on Tuesday 30 July, 2024

 At a recent NZ Construction Industry Council (NZCIC) AGM, the Institute of Building’s CE Pamela Bell was accepted as the incoming Chair.

The NZCIC is an industry association of associations in the building and construction, design and property sectors. The membership associations who are part of the council represent about 200,000 workers of the 300,000 total workers in Aotearoa.

“I follow in the footsteps of Malcolm Fleming who chaired the Council through a period of great turbulence with Covid and other changes. I’m grateful to Malcolm and the other members of the Council leadership for their support.”

Pamela is looking forward to continuing to build strong relationships with other associations, and to leading more conversations about the future of associations and preparing for a resilient future.