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Local Focus: Shrink-wrap solution gives builders head start at level 3
Local construction firms ready to follow new guidelines. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
What's opening in level 3? Auckland CBD begins road to recovery
Construction workers and coffee are returning to the Auckland CBD next week.
Construction workers ready to dig in on transport projects
AT has also made advanced payments to contractors to help keep workers employed.
SkyCity fire: Waterproof membrane workers questioned in blaze probe
'Ignition of the cardboard centre of a roll of cap sheet" caused blaze
Construction sector 'ready to come out punching'
Survey of the construction sector has found a workforce ready to mobilise next Tuesday.
What lockdown's end means for hundreds of thousands of Kiwi workers
The difference between alert levels 4 and 3.
Construction sector businesses get $160m+ wage grants
Builders, contractors, civil works businesses use Government support.
'Economic carnage': Mall owners decry lockdown continuation
"We're now faced with just an outright 'you're closed'," - NZ Council of Retail Property.
Leaders back construction 'mega-comeback' later next week
'The matua is hoping for a mega-comeback' - Shane Jones
NZ seeing 'immense economic destruction', plea to PM to listen
One of New Zealand's biggest landowners is forgoing millions of dollars in rent.
Christchurch's $475m convention centre opening pushed back
Construction issues delay opening of Christchurch's new Te Pae Convention Centre.
Humble windowless hut makes architecture awards shortlist
Shortlist of the Auckland area's best new buildings includes a surprise.
From the Warehouse to Destiny Church - the Kiwi businesses taking up Govt's wage subsidy scheme
The Warehouse has been paid $52 million through the wage subsidy scheme.
Covid-19: Rescue package for Auckland Council contractors
The NZ Transport Agency is also make advance payments to contractors.
Construction giant asks 5000 staff to take two weeks' leave through crisis
The company is also moving staff to 80 per cent of their usual income.
Fletcher Building's Ross Taylor on coronavirus crisis
"That goes with the territory - I don't look for sympathy" - Ross Taylor.
Fletcher Building hits back at union claims
Company refutes union claims about how it's acting during the pandemic.
The Antipodean apartment buyers complain of settlement demand
"Purchasers can't even view the completed development" - The Antipodean buyer.
NZ's highest-paid boss takes $140,000 12-week pay cut
Union: "It shows a lack of respect for the workforce that keeps their company moving."
FE Investments collapse: 'Too early' to say how much of $54.3m investors will get back
The receivers don't yet know how much money investors will get back.
Reserve Bank told of FE Investments' imminent failure
The Reserve Bank recognises the financier's failure is "distressing".
Union decries Fletcher cutting staff pay by up to 70%
"We are simply not able to continue to pay all our New Zealand people" - chief says.
$100m-plus deal cleared: Costco takes next step to open first NZ store
The land bought by Costco is classified as sensitive.
$160m housing developer uses lockdown to get 'shovel ready'
"We all need to keep cool heads, this thing will pass" - Brealey
New post-pandemic infrastructure group to spark $10m-plus projects
Infrastructure projects of $10m-plus in the new group's orbit.
House-building approvals break 45-year record, coronavirus impact still unclear
But where to from here for house building?
Over $1 billion in property deals on ice
Investors across the industry have been hit by the downturn.
Coronavirus: 128 cranes on big building sites stand idle
Contractors could suffer severe financial hardship.
Working from home? Employer still has obligations to you
Employees checklist or audit of their new workplace suggested
Fletcher Building cancels dividend, buyback, guidance
Fletcher is the latest company to can its dividend.
Retirement giant abandons profit outlook, shuts NZ building sites
"Ceasing construction in New Zealand within the next 36 hours" - Ryman
Retirement village posts security guards at gates
Summerset has ramped up security around its retirement villages.