Housing a successful society. Part One: Playtime!
Good housing is fundamental to a successful society. Have you ever considered, though, the relationship…
Browsing: Our Environment
In defence of planners?
Town planners have been getting a hard time lately. Listening to the rhetoric of government…
Productivity improvements
It’s a tricky time to write about the construction industry without getting drawn into political…
Building project advice
As we begin to hear more noise about interest rate cuts, many people who have…
Bank’s other tool
The Reserve Bank has announced the introduction of Debt-to-Income (DTI) restrictions on new lending for…
Marae as infrastructure
As with any crisis, disaster or societal challenge, the extreme weather events of the last…
Consultation season
We’re very fortunate in New Zealand to live in a fairly stable democracy. The flip-side…
Let’s talk about it
This column doesn’t relate to my ‘built environment’ remit, at least not directly. Rather I…
The time looks right
Midway through last year I wrote about some of the market conditions and suggested that…
Ambitious plans – good and not so great
We (finally) have a new government, and with an ambitious programme of work they have…