Those with an aptitude for things hands on often look towards a career in the trades, yet our primary qualification – an apprenticeship – can take 4 years to complete....
Malcolm Fleming, New Zealand Certified Builders Association Chief Executive, says vocational training needs to embrace not just the delivery of technical skills but the deeper education necessary to create successful business people.
BRANZ CEO Claire Falck says one of the highlights of her year is seeing the energy, enthusiasm and optimism of the students competing in BRANZ’s ArchEngBuild challenge. She is blown away by their teamwork, skills and ideas.
There are many different roles in building fire safety. To smooth the career pathway, various educational options are available to suit different careers.
The new New Zealand Diploma in Engineering (Fire Engineering) should help ensure a steady stream of fire engineering technicians entering the industry.
The New Zealand construction and infrastructure industry is labour intensive and dependent on the availability of skilled labour to meet demand and maintain quality. Therefore, it is critical that careers...
This third article in a series examining the skills and competencies needed by the building sector to transition to zero-carbon construction looks at the challenges of developing the capabilities of tradies.
The first stage of a BRANZ project on zero-carbon construction looked at international evidence on the topic while the second stage developed an understanding of present knowledge and experience of...
BRANZ brought a range of industry players together to brainstorm ways that zero-carbon construction skills can be engrained in the construction sector.
Blockchain is a decentralised, distributed record or ledger of transactions that are stored in a permanent and nearly unalterable way using cryptographic techniques.Blockchain has generated a renewed interest in enabling...
This report outlines a nationwide survey that sought to gain an understanding of the building and construction industry’s knowledge and experience in relation to zero-carbon construction. This research study is...
The research identified analysed the legal, ethical and behavioural concerns for Real-time Employee Monitoring Technologies (REMT) implementation in NZ construction industry.
Product Description Computers are now a vital part of all effective businesses. However, the current extent of computer use in the New Zealand building and construction industry is not known....
BRANZ CEO Claire Falck says it’s clear the industry would like BRANZ to take a stand on impactful issues such as housing affordability, based on our independent scientific expertise, so that’s what we are doing.
BRANZ Chair Nigel Smith is more convinced than ever of the benefits of collaboration and systems thinking when it comes to transforming building performance.
While writing this column in early December with the holiday season yet to begin and this issue of Build not released until early February, BRANZ CEO Claire Falck says her hope is that all our readers enjoyed a refreshing and relaxing break after what was a very challenging 2023 for many.
David Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of Registered Master Builders, says that resilience is what will get the building industry through the impact of COVID-19.
A Free Trade Agreement signed between India and Aotearoa New Zealand promises to help relieve the shortage of skilled workers in the construction sector and deliver access to lower cost building materials.
This article is provided by authors at Dentons Kensington Swan.
Product Description This report is the culmination of a number of projects and additional primary research into the questions of industry and sub-industry level productivity measures and performance measures. It...
This report explores the feasibility of implementing a building pathology approach to monitoring building defects in New Zealand. The focus of this research is on residential buildings.This research focuses on...
This is the first in a series of reports prepared during research into small building industry firms. It reports on the type of work done by industry firms, who their...
This is the eighth in a series of reports on construction industry productivity.The first report was a general review of construction industry productivity and how to measure it (SR219).The second...
This study draws on firm-level data from the Longitudinal Business Database to examine productivity in the New Zealand construction industry. It finds that, over the period 2001-2012, on average, labour...
This guide is designed to support the creation, ownership and administration of a construction sector performance measurement system. It sets out a framework for performance measurement in simple terms, despite...
The purpose of this study is developing a better understanding of measures related to productivity for achieving sustained growth.Given that there is no agreed set of systemic measures across the...
