Contractor Magazine (May 2017) Archives

Contractor Magazine (May 2017)

On the cover: Ammam expands compaction range Coverlines: Talking with the King of Airports – Arnold Bayliss in profile ... National Excavator Operator Competition – behind the scenes ... Transmission Gully – a major motorway project in progress ... Moving in a new direction – Alpha Specialised Movers update ...
Contractor magazine (April 2017) Archives

Contractor magazine (April 2017)

On the cover: Hamm  and Vogel – smoothing the road ahead Coverlines: 2017 National Excavator Operator Competition – highlights … ConExpo in Las Vegas – not just abut big machines … Kapiti Expressway – reviewing the first complete section … A work in progress – Auckland International Airport ...
Contractor magazine (March 2017) Archives

Contractor magazine (March 2017)

On the cover: Hitachi ZW-5 wheel loaders hit NZ Coverlines: Working together for women – Fulton Hogan steps up … Stretching bottlenecks – Auckland's southern motorway … Slip lessons in Northland – a tricky repair underway … Killing us softly with H&S – a veteran's personal view ...
Heritage Trails: Skippers Road Archives

Heritage Trails: Skippers Road

Arguably the scariest if not the most dangerous roading in the country, Skippers Road, is as much an engineering as a scenic gem, as Hugh de Lacy discovers. It may not be the most dangerous road in the world – you’ve got to go to Bolivia for that – but Otago’s Skippers Canyon road has enough of a fear factor to whiten the...
Contractor magazine (February 2017) Archives

Contractor magazine (February 2017)

On the cover: Fully loaded ... Purpose-built Hyundai excavator getting the job done at Lyttelton Port Coverlines: bauma Shanghai – a big machinery show in pictures ... Auckland's City Rail Link – the initial construction ... Taylors Contracting – GPS fleet management in review ... Burgess & Crowley Civil and energy –...
Raising the dough to build New Zealand Archives

Raising the dough to build New Zealand

More than a century after his death, Sir Julius Vogel’s legacy lives on in every branch of New Zealand civil construction. HUGH DE LACY retraces the career of the original big-thinker. He stands out like a beacon in New Zealand politics in the second half of the 19th Century, catapulting the infrastructure of Britain’s most remote...
Heritage Trails: Building the Backbone Archives

Heritage Trails: Building the Backbone

From military beginnings to tourist day-trip, the Napier-Taupo Road cuts across the backbone of the North Island. Hugh de Lacy checks out its colourful history. When the 21-year-old 11th Duke of St Albans, Lord Burford, set a record for the fastest trip from Napier to Taupo in 1891, it took a Pony Express-style relay of speedy horses...
Heritage Trails: Through mist and mystery Archives

Heritage Trails: Through mist and mystery

To the 19th century Tuhoe, a road through their beloved Urewera country spelt capitulation, which is why it was never completed until 1929. Hugh de Lacy continues his series series on historical New Zealand roads. The sun glinting on the biscuit-tin lid way up there on the summit of Mount Maungataniwha was a morale-crusher to the party...
Contractor Perspectives 2017 Archives

Contractor Perspectives 2017

An annual publication from Contrafed Publishing made up of commentary written by industry peers from government level to associations representing every sector involved in making civil contracting in this country a success. ...
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