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...
Category : Contractor
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...
All in the family
Three civil engineers in the Browne family from left: Mary (grandmother to Katrina), Allen, Murray, Katrina, Nathan (Katrina’s brother who is in year three Civil)...
Hauling on a handshake
The Waimea Heavy haulage driver team (from left): Andrew Brown; Lee Wiren; Grant Schroder; and Steve Gilmore. Richard Silcock talks with Peter McIntyre, the co-owner...
Preventing Tarmageddon
Preventing Tarmageddon was New Zealand’s first full-day road surfacing and pavement workshop in the five years since the last Auckland Asphalt Forum event. After almost...