Samantha Gain: The new face of public works engineering
Samantha Gain, the newly elected president of IPWEA, is also the manager, legal and procurement at the Greater Wellington Regional Council. She talks with Ruth...
Category : Profile
Business on a handshake
Over four decades ago two industry veterans, one in extraction, the other in civil contracting, crossed paths and sealed a huge deal on a handshake...
Arnold Bayliss: The king of airports
How many runways do you need to build to be crowned ‘the king of airports’? MARY SEARLE BELL talks to Arnold Bayliss about his career...
Tim Dodge: Filling the cracks
When Kaikoura was severely shaken in the massive earthquake last November, Hawkes Bay contractor Tim Dodge was moved in a completely different way. He was...
Sandy Southcombe: Taranaki’s heavy mover
At last year’s Heavy Haulage Conference, industry veteran Sandy Southcombe sat with MARY SEARLE BELL to reflect on his long career as a house mover....
Keeping it local
This article first appeared in Contractor magazine’s December issue. A wife’s charitable nature sees an Ashburton contractor donating his time, money and equipment to his...
A good man at Goodman
This article first appeared in Contractor magazine’s December issue. He drove a motor scraper at age 15 and now drives a multimillion-dollar business. RICHARD SILCOCK...
Robert Jones: Leading from the front
RICHARD SILCOCK profiles Fulton Hogan’s New Zealand chief executive Robert Jones, a Yorkshireman and natural leader who doesn’t hesitate to roll up his sleeves and...
Greg Sheehan
Top flight pilot
Greg Sheehan has been a stalwart of the heavy haulage industry for years. At this year’s HHA conference he received the Gus Breen Memorial Award,...
The new CCNZ president: Brian Warren
It’s barely a year since the merger of the old Contractors Federation with Roading New Zealand to form Civil Contractors NZ, and new president Brian...