RLB CRANE INDEX®

Residential activity continues across a diverse pipeline of projects, while civic, education and data centre / industrial activity recorded modest increases. Civil projects continue to feature prominently across Auckland, driven by major transport works.

The total value of building work put in place in Auckland in the 2025-26 financial year was down 1.7% from the previous year (to $12.5 billion), well below building work in 2022-23 and 2023-24. The number of new Auckland dwelling consents has risen strongly, up 20.3% in the year ended July 2026 (to 17,260 dwellings).

Current activity by sector:

• Aged Care: Summerset Village, Half Moon Bay
• Civic: Auckland Airport Domestic Processor (5 cranes); Te Hono Community Centre & Library Project
• Civil: O Mahurangi-Penlink (5 cranes); Bledisloe Wharf Extension (5 cranes); SH1 Papakura to Drury Motorway Upgrade (5 cranes); Orakei Infrastructure and Pedestrian Works (3 cranes); Waihoehoe Road Upgrade (2 cranes); Rosedale Park – Bridge Construction; Stage 5 Eastern Busway civil works, Waihi Way
• Commercial: Graham Street, Auckland CBD
• Data Centres / Industrial: Data Centre, Hobsonville (2 cranes)
• Education: Carlaw Park Student Village – 22 Stanley Street (2 cranes); B230 Law School and Performing Arts – University of Auckland
• Health: MPI; AlleVia Health – Urology Institute; Middlemore Hospital – Kidz First and McIndoe External Envelope Remediation
• Hotel: Moxy Hotel; Me.de.tel Hotel Development
• Mixed Use / Other: Ireland Street, Freemans Bay
• Residential: Simplicity Living Morningside (2 cranes), Lake Road, Northcote and Ascot Avenue, Remuera; Seascape; New Residential House, Paritai Drive; Pompallier on Ponsonby; Sero Apartments; Apartments – 87 Shelly Beach Road; The Hill; Kensington Park; Residential Development – Riddell Road; 41 Jervois Road; Ollila Developments; Middlemore Apartments, 30 Hospital Road; Epping–Evandale N2.4 Housing Development; Precinct Student Accommodation, 256 Queen Street

Cranes were removed from:

• Aged Care: Metlifecare Gulf Rise
• Civil: Central Interceptor (5 cranes); Glen Innes Station Pedestrian Overbridge; Orakei Infrastructure and Pedestrian Works (2 cranes removed, 3 remaining)
• Commercial: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare; Orams Marine – Building and Retail
• Data Centres / Industrial: Warehouse Construction, Puhinui Road
• Health: Kakariki Stage 2 Development
• Hotel: DoubleTree by Hilton
• Residential: The Domain Collection; York House; Elysian Apartments; Chelsea Rise Apartments; Ockham “Station M”, together with reductions/removals from other residential developments.