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Awards 2024

Nominations for our 2024 NZ Building People Awards and Next Gen Awards will be open 17 April - 29 May. 

The awards evening will take place on 30 August at the Viaduct Event Centre in Tāmaki | Auckland. 

Who will you nominate?

LATEST NEWS

COVID-19 update for the Building and Construction sector

Posted on Wednesday 22 December, 2021

The CHASNZ website has been updated with the latest COVID-19 guidance for the construction sector. We encourage our members to become familiar with the guidance and its implications for working and travelling around New Zealand under the new Traffic Light System.

National Construction Pipeline Report 2021

Posted on Wednesday 22 December, 2021

The National Construction Pipeline Report 2021 was commissioned by MBIE and jointly prepared by BRANZ and Pacifecon. The Report projects building activity for the next six years and includes national and regional breakdowns of actual and forecast residential building, nonresidential building and infrastructure activity.

Apply to be part of the Engineer to the Contract Panel

Posted on Wednesday 22 December, 2021

Engineers to the Contract (EtCs) play a vital role in the delivery of building and civil engineering construction projects as described in the New Zealand Standard (NZS) 3910:2013 conditions of contract. Engineering NZ is establishing a Panel of recognised EtCs who meet set criteria, with applications opening in January 2022, for practicing EtCs to join the Panel.

Te Waihanga’s Research Insight series launched

Posted on Wednesday 22 December, 2021

New Zealand Infrastructure Commission / Te Waihanga has recently launched the Research Insight series which will be published quarterly. The first one is called ‘Investment gap or efficiency gap? Benchmarking New Zealand’s investment in infrastructure.’

New Code of Ethics for LBPs

Posted on Wednesday 22 December, 2021

The Government has announced a new Code of Ethics for Licensed Building Practitioners (LBPs) to ensure high standards are maintained in the industry. The Code of Ethics will also give the public more confidence that LBPs are reputable and operate ethically.

Relaunch of Product Substitution Guidance

Posted on Wednesday 22 December, 2021

MBIE has re-released guidance on product substitution. The guidance provides key points to consider when thinking about using building products different from those originally requested and specified.

BIMinNZ Conference 2022 – Meet the Speakers

Posted on Friday 03 December, 2021

Over the next few editions of News from the Source, we will be profiling our BIMinNZ Conference speakers. In our Sustainability Programme Stream, Chris Scott and Jun Tsujimoto from Jasmax will be presenting a case study on the adaptive reuse and sustainability in the University of Auckland B201 project, and Emily Newmarch, a PhD candidate at Victoria University of Wellington will be presenting on BIM-enabled carbon calculation.

COVID-10 update for the Building and Construction sector

Posted on Friday 03 December, 2021

A construction industry advisory group has revised the previous COVID-19 Alert Level System Protocols in response to the Government’s recently announced COVID-19 Protection Framework – also known as the Traffic Light system. Read on to learn more.

Revision of NZS 3910

Posted on Friday 03 December, 2021

NZS 3910:2013 Conditions of contract for building and civil engineering construction is used as the foundation for the majority of New Zealand contracts in the building, engineering, construction and infrastructure industry sectors. Co-Commissioners, the Construction Sector Accord and the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, have engaged Standards New Zealand to lead and manage a review of NZS 3910.

NZIOB events update

Posted on Friday 03 December, 2021

Now that the New Zealand Government has confirmed the way forward for running events during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are slowly but surely locking in a full event programme for 2022. See below for the list of what we have coming up for you in the first quarter of next year.

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