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...
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Is the Government listening?
By Alan Titchall, Editorial Manager The industry welcomed the Infrastructure Commission‘s Infrastructure Strategy 2022-2052 as not only recognising our massive infrastructure deficit, but for calling...
New Zealand’s most challenging NOC
Fulton Hogan‘s West Coast Network Outcomes Contract (NOC) for the NZTA started in September 2015 as a collaborative partnership between five West Coast companies on...
Recruiting staff in a tight labour market
Downer has held the Three Waters Maintenance Contract for Tauranga City Council for over eight years after starting the contract in 2013 for the maintenance...
Infrastructure challenges must be addressed
By Alan Pollard, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors NZ The New Zealand Infrastructure Commission released its 30-year infrastructure strategy last month. It is sobering reading. The...
A new era for TransDiesel as TDX
TransDiesel has grown from small beginnings in the 1980s to now employ about 300 people across a nationwide network of 18 branches and is entering...
A perspective on national security
By Peter Dunne. In many ways, the essential story of New Zealand over the last hundred years or so has been our search for security....
Supporting workers and the businesses they work for
By Alan Pollard, chief executive, Civil Contractors NZ. The past couple of years have been tough. Following two years of a global pandemic, we have...
CCNZ Workforce development
Year on year, the civil construction industry has faced a shortage of skilled workers. Last month a new report on entering the civil infrastructure construction...
Unlocking the value of standardised transport data
Supplied by the Asset Management Data Standard Programme Team at the NZ Transport Agency. Picture a world where data is easily described and recorded, readily...