Project
Tight site and a tight frame
For Fulton Hogan, tasked with constructing a new section of road, installing stormwater pipes and upgrading the sewer on a narrow site near Queenstown Airport, it was a race against the onset of winter and the tourist season. Richard Silcock explains. Since opening in late December last year, the Eastern Access (Hawthorne Road extension off SH6)...
Now is the time for exponential growth
PETER BENFELL, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, CONNEXIS ALMOST THREE YEARS since the launch of Civil Trades, the nationally recognised accreditation programme for civil contractors in New Zealand we find ourselves at a tipping point. From that landmark moment in December 2015, we have continued to grow awareness, engagement and, crucially, participation in...
Urban efficiency at the touch of a button
The new next-generation Cat 323 excavators have arrived and one of the first units to be delivered has gone straight into Pukekohe-based TDM Construction’s busy machine fleet. With 15 Cat excavators already on-fleet and a robust company programme for updating older gear in place, it was perhaps inevitable that TDM Construction would end up with...
Forgotten companies: Carco
Many of the readership will identify the name Carco as being associated with logging winches and forestry equipment. However, Carco’s roots go much further back in history to the dawn of the track-type tractor. By Richard Campbell Originally founded in 1905 in Seattle, Washington, Carco (originally known as the Seattle Car Company) set up a...
A 55-kilometre engineering feat
The new Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has cut the travel time between the two Chinese territories from three hours to 30 minutes. After seven years, the 55-kilometre bridge, which is 20 times the length of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and extends above the Pearl River Delta sandwiched between Hong Kong andHong Kong, is now open to...
A case for e-training
DARREN COTTINGHAM, DT DRIVER TRAINING I’M FREQUENTLY ASKED how such a manual and physical task as driving, or operating a piece of machinery can be taught using a computer. Isn’t it better to have in-person training? The answer is not necessarily and certainly not always. Significant cost benefits and improvements in learning outcomes can...
Committed to working with contractors
BRETT GLIDDON, GENERAL MANAGER, SYSTEM DESIGN AND DELIVERY, NZTA THIS IS MY FIRST COLUMN as the NZ Transport Agency’s new general manager, System Design and Delivery, and my appointment comes at a time of significant change for land transport; it is both challenging and exciting. The NZ Transport Agency is committed to working with contractors...
