CCNZ Auckland branch awards night
Stellar People Awards Young Contractor of the Year: Cooper Murdoch, J&R Contracting. Young Engineer of the Year: Kristan Dantas, Fletcher/Acciona Joint Venture. Outstanding Individual of...
Category : Contractor
Celebrating 40 years of Kiwi mateship
Two Kiwi mates who started their business in a London flat reached the significant milestone of 40 years in business together this year. TransDiesel, the...
SkyPath morphs into expensive standalone bridge
It started out a decade ago as a $16 million, privately funded SkyPath project attached to Auckland’s harbour bridge, and has now morphed into a...
Last piece of Auckland’s SCI project finished
The Southern Path connecting communities along the Southern Motorway and built by CPB Contractors opened May 24, 2021. This specific project was designed to provide...
Leading the charge for female workers
Paare Ahuriri-Leach is one of a growing number of women in civil construction and her story is an inspiring one for recruitment in the industry....
Icing on the cake ready for new motorways
Higgins has opened its $13 million state-of-the-art asphalt batch plant in Silverdale. The plant rated at 240 tonnes an hour will be the sole supplier...
Privacy Act changes and your company policy
By Stacy Goldsworthy, Technical Manager, Civil Contractors New Zealand Recent changes to privacy legislation have implications for contractors, who collect and store people’s personal information,...
As normal Transmission resumes, problems will be forgotten
Above: One of the asphalt paving machines working along a section of the motorway. Photo by Mark Coote Photography. When the first sod was turned...
Stepping up to the challenge
Above: Ethan photographed at the 2020 Water New Zealand Association Conference in Hamilton. Ethan Keith’s life has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride, from...
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...