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FOUNDED ON RED ROCK
Auckland might seem far away to a business based in Taupo, but four-laning has brought it well within reach. Hugh de Lacy explains. EARTHMOVING AND QUARRYING comprise the two otherwise separate businesses run out of Taupo by Seay brothers Graham and Bruce, but while the dozers and excavators operate around the central North Island, the...
Kapiti Expressway heads north
The second section of the Kapiti Expressway is advancing northwards with construction well underway. Richard Silcock went to check on progress. PHOTOS: MARK COOTE PHOTOGRAPHY Over the years... The present concrete, two-lane-bridge over the Otaki River on SH1 was built in 1955, replacing a 272-metre-long wooden bridge which was built in 1901...
Classic Machines: Euclid's Big Singles- The S-28 and S-32
Designed to compete directly with the Caterpillar 651, the Euclid S-28, and later S-32 were the largest single engined overhung scrapers that the company ever manufactured, and as it turns out, also the rarest. By RICHARD CAMPBELL During the 1960s, there was a surge of interest in really big single engined motor scrapers. Projects had gotten...
Updating IPWEA
Samantha Gain, president of IPWEA, updated RIMS conference participants about the engineering association’s current activities and future plans. IPWEA NEW ZEALAND, as you hopefully know, is a membership organisation. We support the provision of public works through training and events, publications and manuals, and branch meeting and...
CCNZ EPIC industry careers launch
Designed by CCNZ, EPIC is an industry career promotion platform designed to make working on our roading, water, energy and other infrastructure networks more accessible to those who may not have been aware of the opportunity. CCNZ chief executive Peter Silcock says this initiative is long overdue, and opportunities in civil trades and...
A road a long-time in the making
New roads in the 19th century meant new areas being opened up to pastoral farming and, sometimes, warfare, but the Desert Road offered neither. Hugh de Lacy delves. Of all the key roads in the North Island, none was as late coming into regular usage as that which runs across the Rangipo Desert between Waiouru and Tokaanu, east of the mountains...
Leaky buildings and bodies corporate
WHEN CONTRACTING with a body corporate to carry out a leaky building remediation, contractors may not be aware of what is going on behind the scenes with their client. Bodies corporate are a complicated entity, with many different stakeholders – these stakeholders may not all have the same interests. The recent judgment of Manchester...
