Summerset Group has been granted resource consent for a $100 million village in the Christchurch suburb of Casebrook.

More Fonterra job cuts have raised questions about whether the dairy giant will need all the space it has leased in new upmarket Auckland headquarters.

Auckland University today released an image of its planned $281.9 million engineering faculty building.

Auckland University's $2 billion two-decade upgrade is halfway as it narrows its focus from five to three campus sites and upgrades, demolishes or extends a swag of buildings.

Martin Hutchin sold investment properties in Invercargill and Huntly and was described as a "risk to the community".

Last month saw the highest number of new dwellings consented in a month since March 2005.

If Auckland has an architectural boy wonder, it's Nat Cheshire, who is the delineator behind two rural cabins that won the 2014 Home of the Year.

Construction firm chief does damage control after suggesting that builders who carried out shoddy repair work on quake damaged homes had "gone back to Ireland".

"Over time" and "over budget" are two phrases well known in construction, so a couple of industry veterans have created a solution they believe has global potential.

Profit fell to $270 million in the year ended June 30, from $339 million a year earlier, the company said.

Auckland could take another 86,400 dwellings in the next eight years without any risk of over-building.

Dual-listed giant Fletcher Building is tipped to push up annual operating earnings 4 per cent to $652 million when it declares its full-year result tomorrow.

A leaky building lawsuit against cladding manufacturer James Hardie is looking more likely to expand into a class action.

The cladding manufacturer is facing a leaky building lawsuit that could balloon into class action.

People working in the construction industry continue to enjoy the benefits of the building boom in Christchurch and Auckland.

Auckland projects including a Titirangi art gallery and a Manukau campus building have been short-listed for architecture awards.

New Zealand residential building consents fell 4.1 per cent in June as construction intentions in Canterbury tapered off.

Owners of a huge apartment complex are about to endure their second round of building repairs, and taxpayers could be up for half that bill.

A new $50 million dome-shaped silo for storing cement is due to spring up at Ports of Auckland next week or the week after.

One of NZ's biggest off-site housing manufacturers is now in liquidation, but creditors have hope of getting paid.

Initial geotechnic testing has been carried out on the site for the 52-level NDG Auckland Centre and construction might begin next year.

The head of New Zealand's biggest insulation manufacturer welcomed the Government's decision to require all tenanted properties to have ceiling and underfloor insulation.

Auckland needs to squeeze in and up and move to having more suburban units and apartments to meet buyers' growing financial constraints and limitations.

A council body has four months to produce a viable film studio plan at Hobsonville Pt or the land will be used for housing.

Aucklanders are divided on either side of the movies versus home debate that’s been raging over a prime piece of land in Hobsonville Pt.

One of New Zealand's largest privately owned elderly-care, rest home and retirement village businesses is planning a $450 million to $500 million expansion.

A pre-fabricated housing business, which built four new multimillion dollar Auckland houses aims to build new places within only four weeks.

A second Kiwi engineer is working on the world's tallest new tower and the first kilometre-high building.

Two Auckland Council bodies are at loggerheads over whether 20ha of land at Hobsonville Pt should be used for housing or a film studio.

The Bunnings chain of hardware stores have been a great success story, but the chain is at risk of becoming a victim of its own success, writes Christopher Niesche.