Civil Contractors New Zealand appoints a new chief executive
Civil Contractors New Zealand (CCNZ) has named Peter Silcock as its new chief executive. Mr Silcock will step into the position from his current...
Category : Contractor
Resource development needs urgent reform
by Vijay Naidu
The EEZ Act needs fixing says Straterra, after the Environmental Protection Authority declined Chatham Rock Phosphate’s seabed mining application. “The decline of Chatham Rock Phosphate’s...
Dealing with tight tolerances
A family run contractor employs the latest surveying technology to build a council roading project with challengingly tight tolerances. IN OCTOBER LAST year Jilesen Contractors...
Government procurement rules
CAROLINE BOOT, PLAN A TENDER SPECIALISTS SINCE FEBRUARY THE Government’s Rules of Sourcing have been mandatory for a whole bunch more organisations than...
Lest we forget
The land wars in New Zealand were preparation for the terrain-tortured European battlefields of WW1 in that Maori defences featured ramparts, bunkers and trenches...
Consideration of oversize load movers
JONATHAN BHANA-THOMSON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, NZ HEAVY HAULAGE ASSOCIATION THE ROAD CONSTRUCTION season is well underway and this time of the year this Association receives...
A case for concrete pavement intersections
ROB GAIMSTER, CEMENT & CONCRETE ASSOCIATION AND NZ READY MIXED CONCRETE ASSOCIATION EVER PULLED INTO the car park of your local shopping precinct, come to...
Why Government needs to take water funding seriously
JOHN PFAHLERT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, WATER NZ IT TOOK OUR Prime Minister less than 12 hours to dismiss the latest request by Local Government New...
Contract retention provisions
MALCOLM ABERNETHY, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CIVIL CONTRACTORS NZ. RETENTIONS ARE A HOT TOPIC at the present time with the Minister for Building and Housing, Dr...
Runway Innovations
Lawrence Schäffler looks back on how the looming threat of WWII kick-started the development of the NZ Air Force’s infrastructure and how a shortage of...