Taxpayer Talk: David Baker on Exposing Inefficiencies in our Building Sector

This week Peter Williams is joined by social media sensation, David Baker, from Rapid QS. David is a quantity surveyor by trade, specialising in pricing residential buildings—and has spent the last year blowing the whistle on why so many public housing and infrastructure projects cost so much. But price is just the start—David also raising growing concern with agencies being unable to explain why the costs are so high, and has stated a wide-ranging social media campaign to expose these costs and inefficiencies within the industry. Support the show

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Taxpayer Talk: David Baker on Exposing Inefficiencies in our Building Sector is an episode from Taxpayer Talk - podcast by the New Zealand Taxpayers' Union by New Zealand Taxpayers' Union Inc..

This episode is 46:34 long.

This episode was published on May 13, 2025.

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