Building cheaper, faster, better

Peter Nunns, Nick Leggett and Sam Stubbs all have their views on productivity. (Image: NZME/Supplied)

Mon, 01 Sep 2025

Mon, 01 Sep 2025

Big builds equal big problems in New Zealand. But could one company's methods change everything? In a feature and video documentary for our Productivity Unleashed series, Oliver Lewis and Garth Bray investigate construction’s productivity divide.Peter Nunns is breaking it down as simply as possible.Imagine you have a builder called Betty, the general manager for strategy at the Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga, says. Betty has a van and a set of tools, and one year she builds a house.The next year, she hires another bu...

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