Daniel Fitzpatrick, business coach at Next Level Tradie. 7 things you should know, and be working into your plan now, while you still have time Coronavirus has sparked a chain reaction of events that is completely changing the landscape of how we all do business. For most tradies, it’s little to no income until your […]

The latest QV House Price Index data for March provides us with a view of the housing market as New Zealand headed into lockdown on 25th March. But what it doesn’t tell us is what happens beyond the proverbial brick wall that the COVID-19 lockdown has created. The data shows the property market was continuing […]

By Commerical lawyer, Geoff Hardy. At the time I wrote this, we were a week into Alert Level 3 and we were preparing for the transition to Level 2. Building firms had returned to work but they were having to observe all the social distancing, personal protection equipment, hygiene, contract tracing, and other precautions that […]

The construction sector has an important role to play in kick-starting the New Zealand economy. To support this, the Construction Sector Accord has temporarily shifted focus from industry transformation to industry resilience and recovery. The Accord is a collaboration between construction sector leaders from across government and industry. The Accord Steering Group (ASG) has been […]

Burcin Kaplanoglu – Executive director Innovation, Oracle Construction and Engineering, www.oracle.com/nz As more stories come out about the potential use of 5G across different industries, the construction industry is one that could quickly see specific – and significant – benefits from the technology. One such use case could be around the “network slicing” capability of […]

By Jon Grayson – Chief executive, NZ Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga. The average New Zealander rarely gives infrastructure a second thought unless it isn’t working. It’s in times of crisis that we start to value the essentials such as energy, clean water, good telecommunications and transport systems. Life as we know it in this country […]