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World's builders squeezed
Rider Levett Bucknall Directors Julian Anderson, Bob Richardson and Brian Dackers' specialist knowledge is used as a key source of information for an article in the Australian Financial Review drawing attention to the effects tightening credit lines and rising building costs are having on the global construction industry...

Congratulations to all winners of the 2008 Innovation and Excellence Awards
Rider Levett Bucknall would like to congratulate all winners and finalists of the 2008 Rider Levett Bucknall Property Council of Australia's Innovation and Excellence Awards...

Queensland Health has appointed Rider Levett Bucknall as Quantity Surveyors to their Sunshine Coast Hospital development.
The hospital is to be constructed on a 20 hectare Greenfield site at Kawana Waters, Sunshine Coast. When completed in 2014, the development will provide in excess of 450 beds...

Westfield Albany wins Rider Levett Bucknall Supreme Award
Rider Levett Bucknall would like to congratulate Westfield Albany and all Property Council of New Zealand 2008 award winners...

Uncertain Times Ahead for the Construction Industry

Rider Levett Bucknall's April 08 Oceania Construction Cost Commentary confirms there are uncertain times ahead for the Australian and New Zealand construction industry.

In construction markets, the global credit squeeze has affected New Zealand confidence levels to a greater extent than it has in Australia where as Mark Lochran, director of Research at Rider Levett Bucknall states: "Australia-wide, there is an abundance of workload at an all time high, although the latest building Approvals have slipped somewhat."

Forecast 49 - New Zealand Trends in Property and Construction

Read Forecast 49, the latest in New Zealand trends in property and construction

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