Celebrating 50 years of specialist industry services
Grouting Services was founded in Auckland and the company, still Kiwi-owned and operated with 50 employees (the longest standing – 40 years) and a number...
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A lifetime love for the D8 bulldozer
If bulldozer driver Dave Lott isn’t the oldest in the world, he’d be the only nonagenarian still working an 11-hour day on the machines. Hugh...
Introducing Alan Pollard
Alan Pollard, the long-serving chief executive office of NZ Apples & Pears, will be taking over as new CEO of CCNZ from Peter Silcock in...
Upgrade announcement short sighted
While the CCNZ applauds the extra $1.9 billion for the NZ Upgrade Programme it says it is still uncertain when many of the green-lit projects...
CCNZ Auckland branch awards night
Stellar People Awards Young Contractor of the Year: Cooper Murdoch, J&R Contracting. Young Engineer of the Year: Kristan Dantas, Fletcher/Acciona Joint Venture. Outstanding Individual of...
Celebrating 40 years of Kiwi mateship
Two Kiwi mates who started their business in a London flat reached the significant milestone of 40 years in business together this year. TransDiesel, the...
Last piece of Auckland’s SCI project finished
The Southern Path connecting communities along the Southern Motorway and built by CPB Contractors opened May 24, 2021. This specific project was designed to provide...
Leading the charge for female workers
Paare Ahuriri-Leach is one of a growing number of women in civil construction and her story is an inspiring one for recruitment in the industry....
Icing on the cake ready for new motorways
Higgins has opened its $13 million state-of-the-art asphalt batch plant in Silverdale. The plant rated at 240 tonnes an hour will be the sole supplier...
As normal Transmission resumes, problems will be forgotten
Above: One of the asphalt paving machines working along a section of the motorway. Photo by Mark Coote Photography. When the first sod was turned...