SiteApp helps assess workplace risk from every angle
Businesses working in potentially hazardous environments have increasingly sophisticated tools at their disposal for assessing and reducing risk, as well as for engaging in a...
Category : Contractor
Old dogs, new tricks: Nelson Civil Construction boosts output
Nelson Civil Construction is leveraging the experience of its employees with advanced GNSS-based grade-checking technology and boosting its productivity by more than 50 percent as...
Ones, zeros and dollar signs – talking with Roger Ford
Business development consultant Roger Ford is president of the New Zealand Software Association. Contractor caught up with him recently for a discussion about the ways...
A Social life at Contract Landscapes a.k.a CLL
Regardless of your industry, you avoid engaging with social media at your peril, says Chelsea Ford from civil construction firm Contract Landscapes (CLL). The Auckland-headquartered...
Navman Wireless instrumental in tracking progress
Navman Wireless helps John Jones Steel track its large fleet of trucks, mobile cranes, elevated work platforms and other vehicles across Canterbury and beyond. Structural...
Komatsu puts customers first
Komatsu Australia’s recently opened INSITE Fleet Management Centre – centrally located within its new headquarters – has been designed to squarely put the focus on...
Hamm Compaction Quality technology launches in NZ
Fulton Hogan has recently taken delivery of two new Hamm HD80+ eight ton twin drum vibratory rollers; among the first such machines in New Zealand...
EROAD announces next-generation platform
EROAD has announced the release of its world-leading, second-generation in-vehicle hardware, Ehubo2, which supports multiple applications on a single device. The first application for the...
Early adoption key to profitability for Schick Construction
Being early adopters of technology including machine control and GPS-based survey systems is the best way to overcome the contracting industry’s inherent skill shortage says...
Binding the metal with a simple solution
In an effort to reduce maintenance costs and extend road budgets, councils and road contractors are turning to a technologically-advanced binding agent called PolyCom Stabilising...