Big Tauranga office building
A newly built, three storey 6000 sq m office building at 108-128 Durham St, Tauranga, has been sold by Zariba Holdings to a Queenstown investment group for just over $40 million in a deal brokered by Simon Clark and Duncan Woodhouse of Colliers International. Continue reading
New Zealand building consents fell last month as a drop-off in Canterbury construction intentions offset growth in other regions, although Auckland continued to lag behind the estimated level needed to match growth in housing demand. Continue reading
Insurers are not expecting a big financial hit from the 5.7 earthquake in Christchurch.
Tim Grafton, chief executive of the Insurance Council of New Zealand, said he had been in touch with insurers following the quake which shook the city at 1.13pm on Sunday.
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All building work in New Zealand must comply with the Building Code, which is the first schedule to the Building Regulations 1992.
The Building Code does not prescribe how work should be done but states, in general terms, how the completed building must perform in its intended use. Continue reading
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to building owners (and their agents) on how to meet the requirements of the Building Act 2004 (the Building Act) relating to building warrants of fitness, compliance schedules and related matters. Continue reading