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Safety delays hit Auckland housing project

Fire safety issues have stopped construction on the first 20 terraced homes at Auckland's biggest affordable housing project.

Convention centre ready to break ground

Work is about to start on the NZ International Convention Centre, ready for a 2019 completion of the project which will include a 300-room five-star hotel.

Fletcher wins $477m SkyCity contract

Building project announced to take 38 months.

Heritage protection to be slashed

Entire suburbs have no heritage protection, leaving them open for demolition.

Shoddy build: $50m project in video

Developer admits his $50 million-plus housing project at Albany is the site of a video highlighting shoddy building practices.

Leaky home owners apply to court for class action

More than 500 owners of leaky homes have come forward to explore whether they can be part of a claim against James Hardie.

Shoddy work: investors get out

$50 million-plus housing project in Auckland has been identified by a property investor as the site of shoddy building.

Council silent on shoddy project

Auckland Council is refusing to divulge details about a shoddy housing development that the Master Builders Association says deliberately flouts the law.

Factory of dreams churns out homes

In Lego-style but on a giant scale, 10 housing components are almost finished at the city's only high-rise house factory.

$100m Summerset village gets OK

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

Construction chaos to hit Auckland

Aucklanders are about to endure a "five-year nightmare" as work starts on a raft of major jobs, including the New Zealand International Convention Centre.

Fonterra job cuts raise questions about new HQ

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.

Engineers get first look at new digs

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

Uni's $2b upgrade hits halfway mark

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.

Former property developer bankrupted

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

Building consents hit 10-year high

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

Twelve Questions: Nat Cheshire

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.

Fletcher boss sorry for Irish slur

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".