It’s land and its wet but is it a wetland?
By Mike Doesburg, partner at Wynn Williams, specialising in resource management and environmental law. The Government’s Essential Freshwater Package had admirable ambitions: halting degradation of...
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Transmission Gully – the pathway to the Wellington region’s future
Caption: At the very beginning and the Transmission Gully projects Sod-turning in September 2014 were from left: David Jurd, Leighton Contractors managing director; Ohariu MP...
NZS 3910 – the standard is changing
Paul Buetow (partner) and James France (solicitor) in Dentons Kensington Swan’s Major Projects and Construction team. The NZS 3910:2013 standard is the most widely used...
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...
Road Infrastructure Management Forum
IPWEA and its specialist interest group – RIMS – are holding their annual forum on road management between 28-29 July at the Palmerston North Conference...
National politics and ministers of finance
By Peter Dunne. In our system of government, the Prime Minister is often described as “primus inter pares”, the first among equals, or the chair...
Flying the dream
Being dyslexic has not stopped Craig Walker from forming and running one of the most successful building removal companies in the country. Richard Silcock spoke...
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...
Regulatory efficiency the way to go
Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, CEO, New Zealand Heavy Haulage Association. The Oversize Freight Sector is one that has many extra layers of regulation on top of the...
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...