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...
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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...
A winning specialist contractor
Concrete Treatments is a comparatively small family-owned business making a name tackling some challenging and unique projects. Richard Silcock profiles this 11-year-old company and some...
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....
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...