‘Sorry’ seems to be the hardest word
At the end of November 2022, as Parliament sat under Extended Hours to pass the Committee of the Whole stage of the controversial Water Services...
Category : Contractor
The NZS 3910 interim review
By Paul Buetow (partner) and Caitlin Hogan (law graduate) in Dentons Kensington Swan’s Major Projects and Construction team. Paul is also a CCNZ representative on...
Fair Pay Agreements are here, like it or not
By Alan Pollard, chief executive, CCNZ. The Fair Pay Agreements Act has now passed and will come into effect this month (December 2022). CCNZ submitted...
Micro-TBM project
Wellington Water and contractor McConnell Dowell are involved in a project at Barber Grove in Lower Hutt using micro-tunnelling for the first time in the...
Providing for oversize at your roading work sites
By Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, CEO, Heavy Haulage Association. The NZTA says this road maintenance season will be the busiest ever on the State Highway network and...
The Michigan 210 series
Michigan motor scrapers are probably unfamiliar to a lot of earthmovers these days, but they occupy a place in the development of this type of...
Taking the pulse of the industry
By Alan Pollard, CCNZ chief executive Civil Contractors NZ released the annual Construction Industry Survey in August. This annual research is a partnership with Teletrac...
Friend or foe? The engineer’s representative
By Stuart Robertson (partner) in Dentons Kensington Swan’s Major Projects and Construction team While much attention has recently been directed at the role of the...
Inspiring younger generations
A civil contractor veteran who has done so much to recruit young people into an ageing workforce has himself reached the twilight of his working...
CCNZ Wellington office sold
CCNZ Wellington office sold At a Special General Meeting of CCNZ, held in November last year the Executive Council decided to sell the CCNZ national...