Infrastructure challenges must be addressed
By Alan Pollard, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors NZ The New Zealand Infrastructure Commission released its 30-year infrastructure strategy last month. It is sobering reading. The...
Category : Comment
A perspective on national security
By Peter Dunne. In many ways, the essential story of New Zealand over the last hundred years or so has been our search for security....
A modern-day version of borrow and hope
By Peter Dunne. An elaborate but ultimately irrelevant game of ‘pass the parcel’ is being played out at present about who is responsible for inflation...
It’s land and its wet but is it a wetland?
By Mike Doesburg, partner at Wynn Williams, specialising in resource management and environmental law. The Government’s Essential Freshwater Package had admirable ambitions: halting degradation of...
NZS 3910 – the standard is changing
Paul Buetow (partner) and James France (solicitor) in Dentons Kensington Swan’s Major Projects and Construction team. The NZS 3910:2013 standard is the most widely used...
Industry-led, with government support
Alan Pollard, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand. In May 2021, Economic and Regional Development Minister Stuart Nash addressed an audience of government, industry, and...
Give us all the courage
By Andrew Olsen, CEO, Rural Contractors New Zealand. When he was Prime Minister in the 1990s Jim Bolger had a plaque in his Beehive office...
Show me the money!
Rob Sellars, managing consultant, Eighty4 Recruitment. One of the main reasons we go to work is for the money. As Abraham Maslow theorised back in...
Comparing apples and contracting
Alan Pollard, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand As I write this column, I have been on the job at Civil Contractors New Zealand for...
The great relocation?
Rob Sellars, managing consultant, Eighty4 Recruitment. I’m writing this article in my home office, a portable sleep-out room that we were lucky enough to get...