Issues

February - March 2023

Key highlights

  • RMA reforms set to reduce confusion & cost
  • Asbestos risk in spotlight
  • How to avoid not getting paid
  • Be more secure online
  • Do you need professional indemnity insurance?

December 2022 - January 2023

Key highlights

  • Apprentice of the Year 2022
  • Lessons from Constructive 2022
  • How to avoid not getting paid
  • Should you offer shares to your employees?
  • Increased focus on construction Health and Safety

October - November 2022

Key highlight

  • Implementing H1 insulation regulations
  • The implications of undertaking supervision
  • 7 things you must do in a recession

August - September 2022

Key highlights

  • H1 Insulation regulations - What's changing and when?
  • Work should not hurt - new CHASNZ initiative
  • 5 Tips for smooth sailing with clients
  • Hired scaffolding, are you responsible?

June - July 2022

Key highlights

  • BIMSafe NZ – taking health and safety to another dimension
  • 5 ways to keep young staff working hard
  • Apprentice of the Year for all ages
  • The battle to control inflation

April - May 2022

Key highlights

  • 5 ideas to stop your staff from leaving
  • Disposable respirators and COVID-19
  • Trend towards townhouses
  • Implications of sunset clauses

February - March 2022

Key highlights

  • 3 simple ways to free up your time
  • Proposed construction vaccination protocols
  • Building License cancellations
  • Building industry set up for a fall

December 2021 - January 2022

Key highlights

  • Secure your site for Christmas
  • Uncertainty over Clean Car Feebate Scheme
  • Building for diversity
  • Report highlights sector trends

October - November 2021

Key highlights

  • Failures in weather tightness
  • New COVID guidelines released
  • Stay safe working this summer
  • Estimating your time

August - September 2021

Key highlights

  • Save lives with Life Shavers
  • The building supply crisis - new normal?
  • Are policies favouring new builds?
  • Fix the fails that derail your business

June - July 2021

Key highlights

  • Important times for apprenticeships
  • Build a plan to keep your business moving forward
  • Suicide programme seeks support
  • How to reduce building waste  

April - May 2021

Key highlights

  • Changes to insulation requirements
  • COVID recovery and mortgage interest rates
  • Why you need a shareholders agreement
  • What to consider before you take on more staff

February - March 2021

Key highlights

  • Report show future impact of COVID-19
  • House of the Year winners announced
  • Managing Business Capacity
  • Implications of low interest rates 

December 2020 - January 2021

Key highlights

  • Apprentice of the Year 2020 national winners announced
  • What does the election mean for residental building
  • Protect yourself during summer
  • The duties of directors