Business; A tug between Chaos and Order
By Brett Crombie, Director, Straightedge Accounting As I write, yet another wave of Covid is sweeping through the country and impacting businesses in all the...
Category : Contractor
A man of many talents
Ollie (right) at the Brian Perry Civil themed dinner (Steampunk masquerade) at the CCNZ conference in Christchurch last month, with Paul Prendergast from Z Energy. ...
Changing of the chair at CCNZ
Following the CCNZ conference in Christchurch this month (August) Napier business consultant and former Gair Contracting managing director Bailey Gair was elected unopposed at the...
Time for bold action to get the skills we need
By Alan Pollard, chief executive, Civil Contractors NZ. Having access to a skilled and reliable workforce remains the most critical issue facing the civil construction...
Changes to independent contractor’s status?
By John Farrow from Anderson Lloyd. (first published October 2021) The Labour-led Government signalled that it would introduce statutory support and legal rights for dependent...
Project completion reporting
A tool for accountability and learning, or a pain in the ….? Many managers I talk with admit they struggle to get good project completion/close reports...
Do it once and do it well
There’s an old saying – do it once and do it well. This approach may take a bit longer, but it can lead to better...
Indemnities in construction contracts
Indemnities are powerful risk allocation devices. When you indemnify a party for a loss, you hold harmless and absolve that party from any responsibility for...
Cost fluctuation provisions and their implications for contractors
By Stuart Robertson, partner, and Victoria Bortsova, solicitor, in Dentons Kensington Swan’s Major Projects and Construction team. Over the past few years, New Zealand (like...
Super-dozer – the Komatsu D455A
Second of the very large track type tractors, or ‘Super-Dozers’ to emerge during the 1970s (the first was the Allis-Chalmers HD-41), the Komatsu D455A went...