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Posted on Monday 11 May, 2020
Upcoming NZIOB webinar: Employment Law considerations under COVID-19
The NZIOB is currently working on a new suite of webinars, the first of which is likely to be next week on the topic of 'Employment Law considerations under COVID-19', as presented by...
Posted on Friday 08 May, 2020
In this week’s NZCIC/CHASNZ weekly update, the key themes are 'Preparing for Level 2', and a summary of the current Construction Sector Accord workstreams, primarily being:
Monitoring Alert Level 3 operations to understand potential financial and health and safety impacts
Development of...
Posted on Friday 08 May, 2020
This week the NZIOB ran two webinars, both of which were part of a COVID-19 themed series that sought to provide the NZIOB membership and broader construction industry with timely, relevant, and immediately useful content. The eight webinars that ran...
Posted on Friday 08 May, 2020
It has been announced today that the Construction Industry’s Level 2 Protocols will be available on the CHASNZ website from Monday (11 May) afternoon. As it was with the Level 3 Protocols, the development of the update represents a collaborative effort between...
Posted on Friday 08 May, 2020
Fast-tracking development and infrastructure proposals
To ensure ‘shovel ready’ projects are not unnecessarily impeded by the Resource Management Act, Environment Minister Hon David Parker has announced measures to fast-track eligible development and infrastructure proposals.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/fast-track-consenting-get-shovel-ready-projects-moving
'The state of the construction industry'
NZIOB Chief Executive,...
Posted on Friday 01 May, 2020
In this week’s NZCIC/CHASNZ weekly update, the key themes are 'Being back at work under Level 3' and 'Looking forward'. In preparation for operating at COVID-19 Level 2 (no date has been announced on when that might occur), the industry...
Posted on Friday 01 May, 2020
This week’s wellbeing webinar was the third of the series that NZIOB and Site Safe are collaborating on. Titled ‘Back on site, though not back to normal’, the webinar occurred the day after construction sites reopened under Level 3. To maximise...
Posted on Friday 01 May, 2020
RLB Forecast
In analysing the impact of COVID-19 on the construction supply chain, RLB has summarised the key factors and observations that they anticipate will influence construction pricing over the next 12 months.
April 2020, RLB’s NZ Construction Market & Escalation Forecast
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Posted on Friday 24 April, 2020
The theme for this week’s NZCIC/CHASNZ weekly update is 'preparing for the return to work'. It contains clarification on areas of ambiguity within the government guidelines, including:
Works that can be undertaken to prepare sites for a restart on Tuesday 28 April
Physical...
