Thomas lays the pipeline for an epic career
Thomas Reddiex turned his love of machinery into a dream career in civil construction, laying pipelines on high-profile projects such as the Peka Peka to...
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Goodbye Covid blues
The construction industry is gearing up for a robust future, if only chronic labour shortages can be addressed, writes James French, Construction Industry Specialist, Teletrac...
Providing local roads for the oversize transport
By Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, chief executive, NZ Heavy Haulage association. The specialised sector of transport industry that moves large oversize freight provides a valuable service to...
Getting back to business with our conference
By Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, chief executive, NZ Heavy Haulage Association. This year’s full NZ Heavy Haulage Association conference from 18 to 21 August is promising to...
The LeTourneau Model B Tournapull
LeTourneau was the pioneer in motor scraper development in the late 1930s, nobody else came close to replicating his success. With his Model A Tournapull...
The Allis-Chalmers TS-360 scraper
Following its buy out of LaPlant-Choate in 1952, Allis-Chalmers proceeded to improve and enhance its products. One of the first machines to receive attention was...
SkyPath morphs into expensive standalone bridge
It started out a decade ago as a $16 million, privately funded SkyPath project attached to Auckland’s harbour bridge, and has now morphed into a...
Escalated cost and climate policies compromise NZUP
The Government’s New Zealand Upgrade Programme (NZUP) has been in limbo while the NZTA has been doing project baseline cost analysis. The results were released...
The Caterpillar 941 Traxcavator
There is an old adage that says “If it looks right, it probably is right”, and that appellation most certainly describes the Caterpillar 941 Traxcavator....
Privacy Act changes and your company policy
By Stacy Goldsworthy, Technical Manager, Civil Contractors New Zealand Recent changes to privacy legislation have implications for contractors, who collect and store people’s personal information,...