Auckland Council has now streamlined their process for assessing product substitutions to help builders deal with supply chain issues. 

With supply delays, product shortages and price increases affecting the industry, do we need to change our approach to managing pricing for upcoming projects?

With potentially thousands of product suppliers needing to provide mandatory information, we need to develop some consensus on how to approach issues so as not to create confusion. In this first blog post in a series on preparing for mandatory product information, I will describe the code and how it relates to products.

The Government has launched the process of Auckland-based businesses looking to operate under Level 4. 

In this webinar held on Tuesday 7 September 2021, Matthew Duder (Managing Director, EBOSS) analyses the results of the EBOSS Construction Supply Chain Report 2021 and Julien Leys (Chief Executive, Building Industry Federation of New Zealand) provides an update on travel and business exemptions.

On Tuesday 31 August, Matthew Duder of EBOSS was joined by David Kelly (Chief Executive, Master Builders), Bruce McEwen, (Chief Executive, Placemakers) and Stephen Voyle (Principal, Context Architects) in a webinar looking at the return to Level 3 for sites South of Auckland, and the impact of supply chain issues. 

PRESS RELEASE: The EBOSS 2021 Construction Supply Chain Report gives fresh insights into the challenges the New Zealand construction industry is currently facing — with freight, price hikes and staff shortages shared concerns across the board.

Durability in the NZ Building Code is simple in concept but probably needs more than normal maintenance.

When it comes to the building and construction sector, there is a strong case for collaboration and, taking it a step further, a long-term programme to unify as much as possible our building regulatory systems.

Can we develop new compliance pathways for innovations that respond appropriately to the relative risk of non-compliance but in a cost-effective manner?