Show me the money!
Rob Sellars, managing consultant, Eighty4 Recruitment. One of the main reasons we go to work is for the money. As Abraham Maslow theorised back in...
Category : Contractor
Comparing apples and contracting
Alan Pollard, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand As I write this column, I have been on the job at Civil Contractors New Zealand for...
Graphene proving itself in kiwi concrete
It’s been said that graphene is currently the world’s most promising material with a huge impact on strengthening construction materials. GtM Action is the Kiwi...
Heavy haulage perspective 2021-22
Oversize sector adaptability and tenacity by Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, chief executive officer, Heavy Haulage Association. Adaptability and tenacity are two traits that have come through for...
‘I put my all into it’
CCNZ chief executive, Peter Silcock retired at the end of last year after six-and-a-half years in the job. Richard Silcock (no relation), who interviewed Peter...
Into the wild weather with innovative machines
Facing difficult ground conditions and dire weather, the team at Marais Laying has successfully laid optic fibre cable along the highway between Haast and Lake...
The great relocation?
Rob Sellars, managing consultant, Eighty4 Recruitment. I’m writing this article in my home office, a portable sleep-out room that we were lucky enough to get...
BIM technology – a powerful tool to save lives
Digitisation of the real world into virtual representations is ever increasing. Just as Google Maps has created a virtual representation of roads and places, Building...
Celebrating 50 years
Grouting Services was founded in Auckland and the company, still Kiwi-owned and operated with 50 employees (the longest standing – 40 years) and a number...
A lifetime love for the D8 bulldozer
If bulldozer driver Dave Lott isn’t the oldest in the world, he’d be the only nonagenarian still working an 11-hour day on the machines. Hugh...