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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...
In the depth of the forest
Forestry roading contractors work out of public sight and usually do not have high visibility. In the first feature we have ever published on a forestry contractor, Alan Titchall talks to Malcolm Edridge, the managing director of Edridge Contracting, one of the larger earthworks contractors in the Nelson/Marlborough region. Your business is...
The right attitude
Engineer Amy O’Donnell was named 2018 Young Engineer of the Year by the Auckland branch of Civil Contractors New Zealand. MARY SEARLE BELL catches up with her Winning Young Engineer of the Year is an accolade of which Amy is justifiably proud, yet humbled to receive. “My project manager wanted to nominate me for the award, so I filled out...
