1950s – the pursuit of industry representation
Caption: Back row from left: Trevor Culley (fifth president); Vic Draper (second president); John Feast (seventh president); Harold Parsons (fourth president); Noel Margan (third president);...
Category : Comment
Dumb tunnels and dumb laws
Wayne Brown, engineer and mayor of Auckland. As mayor of Auckland I am fighting a constant battle with Wellington bureaucrats to enable Aucklanders to actually...
A history of the CCNZ: Part One
Caption: From the archives: On his retirement Ron Tarr and his wife are presented with a silver tea set in 1972 (from the Auckland Branch)...
Stronger together – the value of membership
Alan Pollard, Civil Contractors New Zealand Chief Executive. I have frequently written of late of the major challenges that the civil sector is facing, primarily...
A new broom sweeping through transport
The Transport Minister, Simeon Brown is rapidly sweeping away many of the cobwebs from the previous Government, and our association certainly welcomes the direction...
Re-shaping training and qualifications
Alan Pollard, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand. It may seem strange to talk about training at a time when work has dried up and...
‘Lowest cost’ doesn’t equal ‘best value’
Contractors should be involved early on in council and government decision making, there is a lot to fix in regard to infrastructure and our involvement...
Weaving around governments
We are a captious wee country, especially when it comes to politics. We might only host a population equal to a medium size, overseas city,...
Compliance from a guy on the pumps
By Brent Petrie, Project Manager, Prime Pump. As suppliers we’re witness to the time and energy that goes into developing work programmes to meet compliance....
Impact of works and closures on routes
Over the past 12 months we have seen an unprecedented number of closures to the roading network because of weather issues. Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, Chief Executive,...