Built tough, built to last
Bill Perry has led a varied and tough life: Pest control, contract fencing, an army service with frontline combat duty, farming, civil contracting – and...
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Southern contractor takes out best rig award
A strong supporter of CCNZ, Craig Jolly, made a significant win at the annual truck show in Gore this year. Peter Owens was there. For...
A veteran well-travelled
Snow Edgar’s career spans decades and countries, but he hasn’t lost his passion for the people and industry he loves. By Mary Searle Bell Well-travelled...
Crane chief executive calls time
For the past 12 months Crane Association CEO Rod Auton and his wife Kui (Kuimira) have been living in their motorhome in preparation for a...
Safety at heart
Richard Silcock interviews Nicole Rosie, the head of WorkSafe NZ, over industry safety. We are some years behind other countries when it comes to health...
From the rugby field to Downer’s management
After a promising career as a professional rugby player, Craig West hung up his boots and re-joined his former employer, Downer NZ in 2009 and...
Speaking frankly
Many men in the construction industry wonder (some out loud, some silently) whether the push for things like stricter health and safety regulations and the...
An industry advocate
Tossing aside a career behind a desk for one behind the controls of a big digger, Shannan Bell is thriving in the male-dominated civil construction...
Continuing a family legacy
There’re a few conversations going around about university relevance and the benefits of learning on the job that has school-leavers thinking twice about their options....
A ‘people’ person
Richard Silcock talks with Graeme Johnson, Fulton Hogan’s chief for New Zealand, who has been with the company since 2003. At 37 years of age,...