The road to recovery
By Brett Gliddon, Group General Manager, Transport Services, Waka Kotahi, NZ Transport Agency. Five weeks after Cyclone Gabrielle left many of our North Island communities...
Category : Contractor
Skills shortage needs urgent action on multiple fronts
Photo: Otago’s Troy Calteaux took out the 2023 Civil Contractors NZ CablePrice National Excavator Operator Competition. The Milton local and Andrew Haulage 2011 employee is the...
Pilot power recognised and awarded
Both a pilot and an industry advocate for many years, Pat Power’s service to the Heavy Haulage Association was recognised with the Chairman’s Award that...
Supporting the recovery
By Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, chief executive, Heavy Haulage Association. It has been devastating to see the destruction to roads, property, but most significantly to peoples’ lives...
Demanding times ahead for a tough industry
By Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, CEO, Heavy Haulage Association Over the course of the past year, the oversize transport industry has faced a number of different pressures,...
Fast tracked visas
A new fast-tracked visa category to help with the cyclone recovery should enable civil construction to ramp up its response, says CCNZ chief executive Alan Pollard He...
Responding in times of crisis
Photo: Gisborne clean-up – Phil-Yeo. By Alan Pollard, CCNZ chief executive. As I write this column, cyclone Gabrielle has wreaked havoc in Northland, Auckland, Coromandel,...
A love of engineering and earthworks
At just 26 years of age, Te Amorangi (TA) Simeon can already lay claim to having better work stories than most contractors of more vintage...
Making wet weather claims
This article was written by Paul Buetow (partner) and Emma Poland (law graduate) in Dentons Kensington Swan’s Major Projects and Construction team. Contractors play a...
Hard work and devotion pays off
Photo: Mussolini Crawley, from Pipeline & Civil receiving his ‘Apprentice of the Year’ recognition at the CCNZ Auckland branch awards from sponsor Roald Badenhorst, the...