Building consent data due out this morning could show an even more strengthened sector and a rapid escalation in work.
Statistics NZ is due to release the figures for January around the middle of the morning.
At the end of last year, consent for about $1.6 billion worth of work was being issued monthly. But January could be somewhat slower due to the holiday season.
Annual new dwelling consents for 2015 reached an 11-month high in December with 27,132 new dwellings getting sign-off throughout all of last year.
That was the highest annual total since 2004.
