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.
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Enhancing Napier’s sporting status
Above: One of the first rugby games to be played on the new ground gets underway. McLean Park has undergone a significant upgrade with specially
Employment education and training shakeup
After a brief five months of industry consolidation, the Government is pushing ahead with its big shakeup of work education and training it claims will
Underground overground and everyway that works
Mary Searle Bell updates the largest civil contract project in the country, Auckland’s City Rail Link. Auckland’s City Rail Link has a current budget of
Making plastic pavements
Using waste materials for road paving may not be unheard of, but a recent combination of minds has seen the use of waste plastic trialled
New bridge connection
Aerial view at sunrise of the completed He Ara Kotahi cycle and walkway bridge over the Manawatu River, looking NE towards Palmerston North CBD and
Purpose-built for cruise ships
Above: Reclamation and early construction work for the new cruise ship wharf, looking east towards the entrance to Lyttelton Harbour. Construction of this country’s only
Southern contractor takes out best rig award
A strong supporter of CCNZ, Craig Jolly, made a significant win at the annual truck show in Gore this year. Peter Owens was there. For
Change of guard
Above: Ash Drake (left) and Gary Smith, the new owners of Gold Coast Building Removals. Local entity and former owner of Gold Coast Building Removals
A reminder of days past – Opiki suspension bridge
PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF THE PALMERSTON NORTH CITY LIBRARY/MANAWATU HERITAGE COLLECTION When driving north on SH56, over the low-lying flood plains flanking the Manawatu River, you