The building industry is in crisis.

National architecture awards have been handed to projects including an Onehunga helicopter base, a group of Waiheke houses, and a Queenstown bus shelter and toilet.

Fletcher Building has big plans for Chinese arm of the laminates giant.

Japan's magnitude-9 quake and tsunami damaged about 1500 roads, 48 bridges and 15 railways.

There was a modest recovery in both home sales and prices in February.