Material Matters
BusinessDesk investigates the business of building materials
Property
Material Matters: Govt to bear more building consent liability
Chris Penk signals a liability shift to speed up housing consents and boost innovation.
Law & Regulation
Leave steel out of building product changes: sector boss
Changes may lead to cheap, low quality steel imports, sector fears.
Infrastructure
Limited materials, data and benchmarking for building green
The size of our domestic market means fewer choices around lower-carbon materials.
Investigations
In-depth
Offsite building industry struggling to stay afloat
Govt's pausing of projects and economic downturn have had a devastating impact.
Maria Slade
Property editor
Maria Slade is the NZ Shareholders Association 2021 Business Journalist of the year and was runner-up in the 2021 Citi Journalism Awards. She joined BusinessDesk in 2024 from NBR where she was a senior journalist. Prior to that she was business editor of the Spinoff. Slade has worked for most major NZ media outlets including NZ Herald, Stuff, Newstalk ZB and RNZ, and is the author of a how-to book for house hunters, Buyer Beware: A New Zealand Home Buyer’s Guide.
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