Putting the machines through their paces
It is simply billed as the ‘Expo’, but this legendary quarry and mining event this year, in the face of Covid, lived up to expectations...
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Managing cost escalations is more important than ever
By Peter Silcock, chief executive, Civil Contractors NZ. Global supply shortages, snap Covid restrictions and some of the worst disruption to shipping since the Second...
Where’s the light at the end of the tunnel?
By Nick Leggett, CEO, Transporting New Zealand, and republished from the association’s website. I remain an absolute optimist in life, but I do feel for...
Once in a generation chance to nail infrastructure legislation
By Peter Silcock, chief executive, CCNZ. CCNZ is a passionate advocate of the power of well-considered infrastructure projects. These projects can propel a country forward...
From the home office
The October issue of Contractor will be winging its way to you soon. Meanwhile, over this long Auckland confinement, it has been interesting comparing the...
Adversity is good for networking but in limited doses
By Alan Titchall, managing editor, Contrafed Publishing. The lockdown came hard and fast but, unless we had applied the sort of border control imposed in...
Wellington, we have a problem
Caption: Infrastructure CEO Ross Copland By WAYNE SCOTT, CEO, AGGREGATE AND QUARRY ASSOCIATION. Our country has a $75 billon plus infrastructure deficit to meet, Infrastructure...
Winning against the recruitment crisis
By ROB SELLARS, EIGHTY4 RECRUITING. Recruitment has always been high on the agenda as far as significant challenges for the civil construction industry and has...
How well are you scoring on sustainability?
In the 2021 Construction Industry Survey respondents were asked whether sustainability practices will impact on them winning business: 48 percent of respondents said yes; 11...
Thomas lays the pipeline for an epic career
Thomas Reddiex turned his love of machinery into a dream career in civil construction, laying pipelines on high-profile projects such as the Peka Peka to...