Jonathan Whittaker

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Kaimai Tunnel rail slab re-level innovation Project

Kaimai Tunnel rail slab re-level innovation

Ground engineering and asset preservation specialist Mainmark filled voids and lifted the slab and re-levelled the railway line in the Kaimai Tunnel. The Kaimai Tunnel first opened in 1978 and plays an important role as the only rail link from the Port of Tauranga. Its location within the North Island’s Kaimai Range creates unique...
End of a Christchurch icon Demolition

End of a Christchurch icon

Holy ground to Cantabrians, Christchurch’s iconic sports stadium Lancaster Park was levelled in the biggest post-earthquake demolition yet. Hugh de Lacy explains. It was a small mercy that Charles Luney died before the earthquakes that destroyed much of his life’s work, including his beloved Lancaster Park. Previously known as Jade...
Continuing a family legacy Profile

Continuing a family legacy

There’re a few conversations going around about university relevance and the benefits of learning on the job that has school-leavers thinking twice about their options. As an apprentice or trainee, you can land a job in your chosen industry and earn while you learn. There is also no student debt mountain to pay off once your studies...
Northland bridges finally underway Project

Northland bridges finally underway

Northland is experiencing its largest ever programme of work on its State Highways. Among the numerous projects the Transport Agency has underway in the region, a number of existing single lane bridges are currently being replaced. By Mary Searle Bell. IN MATAKOHE, two new bridges are being built and 2.5km of road realigned. The...
Not such a Bella Vista Comment

Not such a Bella Vista

by CHARLOTTA HARPUR, HEANEY & PARTNERS In March 2018, a number of families living in newly built houses within the Bella Vista subdivision in Tauranga were told by the Tauranga City Council that they had to leave their properties due to safety concerns. Twenty-one properties at various stages of completion were affected and the...
Looking after the industry Comment

Looking after the industry

by PETER SILCOCK, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, CCNZ The need for a strong organisation and a powerful voice for contractors remains as important today as it was when Civil Contractors New Zealand’s predecessor the Contractors’ Federation advocated for more work to be tendered on the open market in the days of the Ministry of Works and council...
NZTA’s new way forward CCNZ update

NZTA’s new way forward

Fergus Gammie, chief executive of the NZTA, spoke to delegates at the 2019 CCNZ conference about the new direction of the agency and the start of the light rail project in Auckland. By Alan Titchall. Led by the Government’s own transport agenda, Transport Agency chief Fergus Gammie spoke on the different path the NZTA has set before...
Looking back on an on-going project Historical

Looking back on an on-going project

As work progresses on extending the (current) New Plymouth Airport and building a new terminal, Neil Ritchie looks back on its chequered, 55-year-old history. Local company Clelands Construction is the main contractor for the construction of the new terminal building that will almost treble the size of the current terminal at New...
Southland’s big roading project Project

Southland’s big roading project

It says something for the growth of our dairy industry that they’ve had to build a new road round the original Edendale factory, and this roading project is the biggest in the Southland region for many years. Hugh de Lacy checks it out. A herd of 300 cows was the basis for the country’s first dairy factory, at Edendale, 40...
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