Property has been in hot demand for years now, and the building industry is doing its best to catch up. Land doesn’t grow on trees though, so architects and city planners are thinking differently about how best to utilise the land at hand. With buildings in New Zealand starting to progress in an upwards direction… Continue Reading

Having the freedom to turn on the tap and receive fresh, clean water is a service that too many of us take for granted. At the twist of our taps, water at a quality that exceeds most bottled H2O tumbles freely forth. Hot or cold, high pressure or barely dripping, the freedom to conjure and… Continue Reading

The most expensive commodity applicable to any project these days is time. Time spent designing, constructing and eventually inspecting (and hopefully passing) your project will cost up to thousands of dollars per minute. Avoiding setbacks is essential to the smooth delivery of any project, and while most might think that the delays occur in the… Continue Reading

If there’s one valuable lesson we’ve learned in our 30+ years working in the Wellington plumbing and pipework industry, it is that our clients have nearly always had a really hard time when working their way through the paperwork-heavy labyrinth that is Council Regulations. We’ve learned that navigating these turbulent regulations can be an extreme… Continue Reading

From 1 July 2017, big changes are happening to Auckland Council’s water and wastewater compliance and connections. Watercare, who deliver water and wastewater services to around 1.4 million people in Auckland, are introducing a raft of compliance changes that will essentially regulate and allow qualified contractors to certify their own work in the water system.… Continue Reading