The dream job
Huck McCready’s passion for tow trucks started when he was a boy. Now, aged 65, he looks back on a career that’s been a dream...
Author : Contractor Magazine
Legal pot: what happened overseas?
In a typical Kiwi way we are struggling with our own debate over Cannabis reform while ignoring the fact it has been legal in Canada...
Director’s liability in the construction sector
The ‘limited’ aspect of a limited liability company, or the idea that a company is a separate legal person whose liabilities do not extend beyond...
Kensington Swan Comment: Letters of what intent?
LIAM BULLEN, LAW GRADUATE, HELEN BROWN, SPECIAL COUNSEL, KENSINGTON SWAN’S CONSTRUCTION AND MAJOR PROJECTS TEAM. Construction works often begin under a letter of intent when...
Recovering costs in adjudications – shifting the presumption
It is no secret that dispute resolution is a costly exercise. However, most forms of dispute resolution recognise this expense and include a mechanism where...
The thin black line
A precis of a presentation by Clare Dring, national product manager at Fulton Hogan, on asphalt thickness and are we paving layers too thinly? At...
Creating world records
Built by McConnell Dowell, award-winning Army Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall Replacement at Shakespear Regional Park north of Auckland city makes a big improvement in...
Kensington Swan Comment: Changing the perception?
The Infrastructure Transactions Unit looks at issues with the NZS Conditions of Contract. A new report, titled ‘An examination of issues associated with the use...
Heavy hauling 2019
The Heavy Haulage Association conference has always been a very popular and well-organised one, but this year it added peanut butter to its content recipe....