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...
Category : Comment
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...
The engineer and performance bond
by Vijay Naidu
DORAN WYATT, PRINCIPAL AT GREENWOOD ROCHE CHISNALL A RECENT HIGH COURT decision relating to Mainzeal’s construction of Vector Arena underscores the critical role of the...
Doors of Opportunity
by Vijay Naidu
Contractor magazine talks to Auckland Transport chairman Dr Lester Levy about business ethics, management, his career, and society in general as the city deconstructs and...
Paying respect to Arnold Downer’s legacy
by Vijay Naidu
Of the handful of family names indelibly etched in the history of our civil contracting industry is Downer, founded by engineer Arnold Downer over 80...
Concrete masonry – the silent workhorse
by Vijay Naidu
ROB GAIMSTER, CEMENT & CONCRETE ASSOCIATION (CCANZ) NEW ZEALAND READY MIXED CONCRETE ASSOCIATION (NZRMCA) I’LL GET STRAIGHT to the point, concrete masonry doesn’t receive the...