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Awards 2024

Nominations for our 2024 NZ Building People Awards and Next Gen Awards are now open! 

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

Help us recognise the people doing great things in the construction industry and nominate someone today. 

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New learning modules to understand the Building Code

Posted on Friday 19 June, 2020

To help better understand the Building Code and how it works, MBIE’s Building Performance Team have created some online learning modules covering the Building Code, performance requirements, and compliance.

NZCIC & CHASNZ COVID-19 update

Posted on Monday 08 June, 2020

8 June 2020. With the announcement today that New Zealand is moving to COVID-19 Alert Level 1 at 11:59pm tonight, CHASNZ (in conjunction with the NZ Construction industry Council) has published a revised standard and protocols for ongoing operations. The…

NZCIC & CHASNZ COVID-19 update

Posted on Tuesday 02 June, 2020

2 June 2020. With New Zealand moving to COVID-19 Level 2, the sheer volume of government and industry information required to be shared with construction practitioners during the lockdown, and subsequent shifts to Levels 3 and 2, has subsided. The…

NZIOB COVID-19 themed webinars

Posted on Tuesday 02 June, 2020

2 June 2020. This week’s NZIOB webinar represents a change of tack. While the NZIOB’s previous COVID-19 themed webinars dealt with topics that the construction industry needed immediate information on as COVID-19 struck, the focus now is to provide guidance…

NZIOB Level 2 event planning

Posted on Tuesday 02 June, 2020

2 June 2020. With New Zealand now operating under COVID-19 Level 2, there is an ability for organisations to hold gatherings of up to 100 people under certain conditions (that are expected to be eased further over the next month).

With this…

Recent government initiatives in the construction sector

Posted on Tuesday 02 June, 2020

2 June 2020: Changes to Building Consent exemptions

In a move designed to fast-track small residential projects from proposal to construction, the government has increased the size of detached buildings that are exempt from a Building Consent. The previous exemption was for buildings…

Construction related announcements in brief

Posted on Tuesday 02 June, 2020

2 June 2020. Following the recent National Party’s recent leadership change and reshuffled line-up, the Building and Construction portfolio has moved from Andrew Bayly to Waikato MP, Tim Van de Molen.

View additional information on National’s new spokesperson for Building and Construction
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