The great relocation?
Rob Sellars, managing consultant, Eighty4 Recruitment. I’m writing this article in my home office, a portable sleep-out room that we were lucky enough to get...
Category : Contractor
BIM technology – a powerful tool to save lives
Digitisation of the real world into virtual representations is ever increasing. Just as Google Maps has created a virtual representation of roads and places, Building...
Celebrating 50 years of specialist industry services
Grouting Services was founded in Auckland and the company, still Kiwi-owned and operated with 50 employees (the longest standing – 40 years) and a number...
A lifetime love for the D8 bulldozer
If bulldozer driver Dave Lott isn’t the oldest in the world, he’d be the only nonagenarian still working an 11-hour day on the machines. Hugh...
Introducing Alan Pollard
Alan Pollard, the long-serving chief executive officer of NZ Apples & Pears, will be taking over as new CEO of CCNZ from Peter Silcock in...
Cost saving Cats Eyes covers for road resealing
By Bryan Ferguson, engineering officer Transportation, Taupo District Council. It is standard industry practice with chip reseal to remove all retroreflective RRPMs (Cats Eyes) and...
Roadworks detours are not always viable for oversize
By Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, chief executive, Heavy Haulage Association. Roading contractors are becoming ambitious in the way they go about the upgrading and renewal of the...
Confused about vaccination policies?
FAQs answered by James Warren of Dentons Kensington Swan and organised by the CCNZ. There is some continuing uncertainty as to what guidance or rules...
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...
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...