Legal Comment
The real cost of a workplace injury
One company’s experience of worker injury, enforcement action from a Government regulator and their efforts to improve their own and others’ work in the glass industry. Article supplied by Woods Glass (NZ). In January 2017 a Woods Glass worker was seriously injured while attempting to clear a jam on a CNC controlled glass-cutting table. The...
Expressway build milestones
Construction of the Peka Peka to Otaki Expressway has reached a number of significant milestones over the past six months. Richard Silcock checks them out. Fletcher/Higgins JV project construction manager, Steve Findlay1 says the Peka Peka to Otaki Expressway is progressing well with weekly targets being met. “With the dry weather we’ve had...
West Coast challenge – 50,000 cubic metres of spoil
It was a case of all hands to the pump – including the local fire brigades’ – as a massive slip closed SH6 north of Whataroa. Hugh de Lacy tells the story. When 200,000 cubic metres of primeval rain-forest decided to decamp from the hills above the Whataroa River and relocate across the only road giving access to the tourist hotspots of the...
From the rugby field to Downer’s management
After a promising career as a professional rugby player, Craig West hung up his boots and re-joined his former employer, Downer NZ in 2009 and is now executive general manager for transport infrastructure services. Richard Silcock interviews him over his career and the civil contracting industry in general. Let’s start with a brief look at your...
Our land transport under Industry 4.0
Based on a RIMS presentation by Myles Lind, Senior Project manager Complex Projects, NZ Transport Agency, who is leading the agency’s digital engineering programme. If you have ever watched ‘Star Trek’, you would remember the Starfleet officers posing questions to the on-board computer on almost any engineering topic and receiving...
Classic Machines: The Wabco 35 Haulpak
While somewhat better known for its range of scrapers, LeTourneau-Westinghouse (later Wabco) sought to diversify and expand its product range in the late 1950s. The result was some of the best haul trucks of the day and a legacy that continues. By RICHARD CAMPBELL The ‘35’ series of 35-ton off-highway dump trucks was first introduced in 1957...
A slice of our crane industry history
Liebherr New Zealand has now acquired Morrow NZ, former distributor of Liebherr tower and marine cranes here, and a new chapter in an interesting crane story begins. Richard Campbell explains. A look around any cityscape will reveal tower cranes, they are everywhere and pop up seemingly overnight in some places. A closer look will reveal that...
