A new era for TransDiesel as TDX
TransDiesel has grown from small beginnings in the 1980s to now employ about 300 people across a nationwide network of 18 branches and is entering...
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A perspective on national security
By Peter Dunne. In many ways, the essential story of New Zealand over the last hundred years or so has been our search for security....
Supporting workers and the businesses they work for
By Alan Pollard, chief executive, Civil Contractors NZ. The past couple of years have been tough. Following two years of a global pandemic, we have...
CCNZ Workforce development
Year on year, the civil construction industry has faced a shortage of skilled workers. Last month a new report on entering the civil infrastructure construction...
Unlocking the value of standardised transport data
Supplied by the Asset Management Data Standard Programme Team at the NZ Transport Agency. Picture a world where data is easily described and recorded, readily...
A modern-day version of borrow and hope
By Peter Dunne. An elaborate but ultimately irrelevant game of ‘pass the parcel’ is being played out at present about who is responsible for inflation...
It’s land and its wet but is it a wetland?
By Mike Doesburg, partner at Wynn Williams, specialising in resource management and environmental law. The Government’s Essential Freshwater Package had admirable ambitions: halting degradation of...
Transmission Gully – the pathway to the Wellington region’s future
Caption: At the very beginning and the Transmission Gully projects Sod-turning in September 2014 were from left: David Jurd, Leighton Contractors managing director; Ohariu MP...
NZS 3910 – the standard is changing
Paul Buetow (partner) and James France (solicitor) in Dentons Kensington Swan’s Major Projects and Construction team. The NZS 3910:2013 standard is the most widely used...
Industry-led, with government support
Alan Pollard, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand. In May 2021, Economic and Regional Development Minister Stuart Nash addressed an audience of government, industry, and...