Edie Asher, Author at Contractor Magazine

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Growing a successful business

Business success is all about risk, reward and knowing where you are going. With every contract there is risk, potential rewards and the opportunity to grow and develop. While successful businesses often grow, it is not a prerequisite for success. Growth comes with its own set of risks, and sometimes success is all about keeping...

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Widening the Waimakariri bridges

Capacity for extra lanes on a pair of Christchurch motorway bridges was built into the original structures, but the passage of time has complicated the job. Hugh de Lacy reports. The necessary headstocks jutting out from the piers are there from when the twin motorway bridges were first built over the Waimakariri River north of...

Company Profile

C. Lund and Son - Carrying on with tradition

If there’s one Canterbury company bound to survive the current post-quake economic tightening, it’ll be the old family firm of C. Lund and Son. Hugh de Lacy looks closer. A love affair with strut cranes Bruce Lund, pictured (above), with the 80-tonne Kobellco mobile strut crane he bought off the Marsden Point oil refinery in...

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Safety at heart

Richard Silcock interviews Nicole Rosie, the head of WorkSafe NZ, over industry safety. We are some years behind other countries when it comes to health and safety best practice, says Nicole Rosie, the chief executive of WorkSafe. “While we have seen a reduction in fatal and serious injury recently, there were 49 workplace-related...

Contractor

Common bonds and challenges

By Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, chief executive, NZ Heavy Haulage Association. Attendance at the Specialized Carriers and Rigging Association’s Transport Symposium in Houston recently by myself enabled new levels of information sharing and common concerns between the two Associations. It was a huge honour to be invited to be a speaker at...

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