Education and employment – the great divide
By Peter Silcock, chief executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand. The CCNZ is setting out up a Civil Workforce Forum which will complement its Civil Trades...
Category : CCNZ update
When the going gets tough – looking back at 2020
By Peter Silcock, chief executive, CCNZ. The 2020 year was strange by any measure. Who could have predicted the global pandemic – a topic I...
The standard you walk past is the standard you set
Fraser May talks to Tim Ford about his long career in civil construction and his time as CCNZ president. Tim Ford says he is is...
The value of working together
By Peter Silcock, CEO, CCNZ. You may have noticed a surge in CCNZ membership featuring in the back page of Contractor magazine over the past...
NZTA’s new way forward
Fergus Gammie, chief executive of the NZTA, spoke to delegates at the 2019 CCNZ conference about the new direction of the agency and the start...
Digging into Government’s transport investments
Last month (May) this column highlighted the changes in investment signalled in the Draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport. By PETER SILCOCK For members...
Connected thinking
by Vijay Naidu
By the time you read this the election will be all over. Depending on the result, we will have a government, or we will be...
ConstructSafe – providing powerful information
By Peter Silcock, chief executive, CCNZ. Do you want to ensure that the people working on your sites have entry level health and safety knowledge?...
Lowest price seldom delivers outcomes
This article first appeared in Contractor March 2017. By MALCOLM ABERNETHY, Executive officer, Civil Contractors New Zealand THE ISSUE OF LOWEST price versus value for...
Making and taking opportunities in 2017
This article first appeared in Contractor February 2017. By PETER SILCOCK, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand THE 2017 CONTRACTOR Perspectives provides very interesting reading....