Contractor
After a year of reviews – we now need action
The 2018 year was interesting for a lot of reasons and this year could be a game changer. By Peter Silcock, chief executive officer, Civil Contractors New Zealand. Last year (2018) major projects came into shape, and we saw new bridges and roads spring into being on Puhoi to Warkworth, Transmission Gully and the Waikato Expressway. The...
Not such a Bella Vista
by CHARLOTTA HARPUR, HEANEY & PARTNERS In March 2018, a number of families living in newly built houses within the Bella Vista subdivision in Tauranga were told by the Tauranga City Council that they had to leave their properties due to safety concerns. Twenty-one properties at various stages of completion were affected and the evacuees were...
Looking after the industry
by PETER SILCOCK, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, CCNZ The need for a strong organisation and a powerful voice for contractors remains as important today as it was when Civil Contractors New Zealand’s predecessor the Contractors’ Federation advocated for more work to be tendered on the open market in the days of the Ministry of Works and council works...
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 of the light rail project in Auckland. By Alan Titchall. Led by the Government’s own transport agenda, Transport Agency chief Fergus Gammie spoke on the different path the NZTA has set before it and...
Looking back on an on-going project
As work progresses on extending the (current) New Plymouth Airport and building a new terminal, Neil Ritchie looks back on its chequered, 55-year-old history. Local company Clelands Construction is the main contractor for the construction of the new terminal building that will almost treble the size of the current terminal at New Plymouth...
Southland’s big roading project
It says something for the growth of our dairy industry that they’ve had to build a new road round the original Edendale factory, and this roading project is the biggest in the Southland region for many years. Hugh de Lacy checks it out. A herd of 300 cows was the basis for the country’s first dairy factory, at Edendale, 40 kilometres north...
Highest bridge required biggest dig
The highest bridge to be constructed on the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway required 144,000 cubic metres of earth to be excavated beneath it. Richard Silcock talks with those involved in the project. This 18.8 metre high curved bridge on the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway straddles an excavated cutting through what is...
