Serious cases of flouting the building rules in Auckland have come to light, causing safety concerns. The number of serious complaints about people not getting building consents has increased since the building boom began. In some cases...
Auckland Council Building Compliance Manager Ian McCormick says: "It's important to note that the building code addresses how a building should perform structurally over its lifetime, not the quality of finish. This is not something we...
Over the last few years construction work at many Schools in Scotland has been carried out under Public Finance Initiative Schemes (PFI), where the building contractor self-certifies their own work as being to the correct...