New Zealand's Building Environment Needs Standards!
Why New Zealand’s built environment needs a greater commitment to standardisation. Recent media articles in Stuff have highlighted the many factors that can have an impact on new residential building costs from delays in the consenting process, labour rates, construction materials and of course the exponential increases in land prices over the last 10 years. Earlier this year the global accounting firm Deloitte produced a Fletcher Building Commissioned report on the ‘Cost of