LBP Skills Maintenance, June 2024 — for brick and block, carpentry, external plastering, foundations, and roofing licence holders | When completing and issuing records of work (RoWs), licensed building practitioners (LBPs) have certain obligations.

LBP Skills Maintenance, April 2024 — for all LBP's | Starting your own business can be a daunting task and often we learn on the job. You’re confident on the tools and know you can do a great job on-site, but ensuring your business practices are up to scratch is just as important for building a successful business.

Fiona Caulfield, Declare Manager New Zealand, looks at how Declare labels can help us understand how safe a building product is to human and environmental health.

Many missed the release in April by Statistics NZ which calculated 43,200 homes received council sign-off (CCC) in 2023. This was a 20% increase on the number of homes completed in 2022, and was the result of the long tail of the 50,000 consent approvals in 2021/22 delivering high levels of building site activity and building product sales into the fourth quarter of 2023. Delve deeper and the data reveals far more about how we’re building and what has to change to meet the increasing demand for homes in New Zealand.

Skills maintenance, April 2024 — for all LBPs | What you need to know when repairing flood damaged buildings and carrying out work under the schedule 1 exemptions of the Building Act.

7 encouraging factors to support your conversations with clients who are considering the timing of when they should build (and why 2025/26 is an excellent window for building).

Next year will be the biggest election year in history. 2bn people in more than 70 countries go to the polls in 2024, starting with Taiwan in January through to the US presidential election in November. And the one thing that will likely dominate in all of them? The economy.

If we don’t support a younger, less experienced workforce, do we risk reducing the efficiency and quality of our built environment?

In this guest post by the team at Tricia Love Consultants, we share an exciting update on the first Landscape and Infrastructure project in the world to receive Living Building Challenge vs4.0 Petal Certification.

A common question for manufacturers and importers of building products is when and how to batch BPIR information for product families or ranges. Here's a guide to help you manage these complexities.