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...
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Give us all the courage
By Andrew Olsen, CEO, Rural Contractors New Zealand. When he was Prime Minister in the 1990s Jim Bolger had a plaque in his Beehive office...
Show me the money!
Rob Sellars, managing consultant, Eighty4 Recruitment. One of the main reasons we go to work is for the money. As Abraham Maslow theorised back in...
Comparing apples and contracting
Alan Pollard, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand As I write this column, I have been on the job at Civil Contractors New Zealand for...
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...
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...
Once more unto the breach – or maybe not
By Alan Titchall, managing editor, Contrafed Publishing. A ‘forlorn hope’ is a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the vanguard in a military...