Keeping our heads under pressure
By Alan Pollard, CEO, CCNZ. How the world has changed since the US and Israel attacked Iran. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to understand...
Category : Contractor
Bitumen – the move to emulsion
Bitumen is predominantly used for our road surfacing, featuring a mix of chipseal on lower-volume roads and asphalt on high-traffic roads; used as hot mix,...
O2NL on a fast track
Image: A Goodman’s CAT 374F excavator shifting tonnes of soil at a time near a residential area – near the alignment. After 12 years of...
A very large motor scraper
Image: Following their removal from production for engine and structural upgrades, a model 562B series was introduced and this is one of them. Even fewer...
Learn and wash responsibly
Image: At the TopCon Positioning booth (Left to right): Charles Fairbairn, Contractor magazine; Corey Prutton, Aptella; and Chris Groll from TopCon. Charles Fairbairn from Contractor...
Welcoming the EIISB
Vocational training has been reformed again, with the replacement of Te Pukenga by 10 new polytechs and eight Industry Skills Boards, including our own Energy...
The very British self-propelled motor grader
Image: An Austin-Western Pacer 300, the motor grader on which Aveling-Barford’s highly successful model 99-H was based. Over 60 years old, this example is having...
What we can control in times of instability
By Alan Pollard, CEO, CCNZ I recall a line from an old Kiwi movie: “There is one thing for sure in this world, and that is...
Choosing the right insurance broker
Affiliated Insurance Brokers, a CCNZ associate, is celebrating 25 years in business this year and is proud to count two civil contractors among its longest-standing...
Northland wins again
Image: NEOC 2026 Winner Steven George (centre) with runner-up Marcus Ingram (right) and third place finisher Ryan Prankerd (left). Whangarei’s Steven George made his second...