How financially secure is your project?
ARIE MOORE, ASSOCIATE, AND KATE HENDERSON, SOLICITOR, KENSINGTON SWAN’S CONSTRUCTION TEAM OFTEN NEW ZEALAND contractors operate on little more than a handshake. Recent liquidations,...
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EROAD sets Kiwi contractors on the right road
When EROAD implemented the world’s first network-wide GPS/cellular-based road user charging system in 2009, it revolutionised the way New Zealand transport operators managed and paid...
Introducing Peter Silcock
The new Civil Contractors New Zealand chief executive Peter Silcock is no stranger to running an association but it will be his first experience with...
Working out whether you are a ‘quarry operator’
MinEx, the national Health & Safety Council for the minerals industry, has worked out a clever, online flowchart that has been adapted from a...
Quarry definitions: new flowchart resource
A new Flowchart Resource has been developed to assist relevant industries in understanding their potential obligations under the Health and Safety in Employment Act...
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...