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...
Category : Comment
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...
Contract retention provisions
MALCOLM ABERNETHY, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CIVIL CONTRACTORS NZ. RETENTIONS ARE A HOT TOPIC at the present time with the Minister for Building and Housing, Dr...
Contracting politics can be a lonely game
For nearly six years Jeremy Sole lived alone in Wellington without his family while working on behalf of contractors. He talks about the experience to...
Common sense approach to claw back payments
Contractors and sub-contractors benefit from the Supreme Court decision on a liquidator’s powers to claw back payments made by an insolvent company to a contractor....
The power behind the president
Civil Contractors’ leader DAVE CONNELL is not the only smart operator in his family. His wife Margo talks to GAVIN RILEY about her key role...
The contractor’s new best friend
A milestone was reached in the civil-construction industry last year when contractors and consulting engineers held a joint annual conference – mutual recognition of being...
Increased funding and focus on cycling
by Vijay Naidu
TOMMY PARKER, NZ TRANSPORT AGENCY GROUP MANAGER, HIGHWAYS & NETWORKS OPERATIONS. WE HAVE AN ONGOING commitment to all modes of transport and cycle ways and...