Unwinding the politics of Infrastructure construction
Alan Pollard, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand. The current absence of construction project works across the country highlights a fundamental issue with how infrastructure...
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Engineer under spotlight
Rebecca Saunders, Partner, Wynn Williams’ Construction Team and George Sutton, law graduate, Wynn Williams. The recent decision of Hawkins Limited v Elizabeth Properties Ltd confirms...
Fast-track Approvals Bill
Christina Sheard (Partner), Liam Bullen (Associate) and Sarah Scrivener (Solicitor) in Dentons’ Environment and Planning and Major Projects and Construction teams. The ‘Fast-track Approvals Bill’...
The rise of the small scraper
Appearing at a time when the popularity of small elevating scrapers was on the rise, the Terex S-11E entered a highly competitive field of machines...
Fourth title makes history in Otago
Troy Calteaux from Otago emerged as the industry’s ultimate digger driver at the CCNZ/CablePrice National Excavator Operator 2024 Competition held at Manfeild Park in Feilding....
‘Lowest cost’ doesn’t equal ‘best value’
Contractors should be involved early on in council and government decision making, there is a lot to fix in regard to infrastructure and our involvement...
Weaving around governments
We are a captious wee country, especially when it comes to politics. We might only host a population equal to a medium size, overseas city,...
A legendary tractor – the Caterpillar D8
There are not too many tractors that can be considered truly legendary. However, the Caterpillar D8 is one of those machines, and in this issue,...
Compliance from a guy on the pumps
By Brent Petrie, Project Manager, Prime Pump. As suppliers we’re witness to the time and energy that goes into developing work programmes to meet compliance....
Impact of works and closures on routes
Over the past 12 months we have seen an unprecedented number of closures to the roading network because of weather issues. Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, Chief Executive,...