Road Asset Management (RAM) contracts
Road asset management is about managing existing roads as an integrated asset in the most cost-effective manner. RICHARD SILCOCK talks with some of those involved...
Category : Contractor
Mark Pizey at the coalface of health and safety
He had a job that nobody could envy in an organisation going down the tubes, but Mark Pizey survived two tumultuous upheavals at state-owned collier...
CANZ 2016: A conference to remember
ALAN TITCHALL has covered literally hundreds of conferences in his journalism career but says the 2016 Crane Association Conference and Trade Show (CANZ) will be...
Foxbox cage for sewer project
Even the most straightforward of projects will have its challenges, as Higgins discovered when building the Havelock North Relief Sewer.
By MARY SEARLE BELL. HAVELOCK...
Hugh Johnstone – award winner
RICHARD SILCOCK catches up with Hugh Johnstone and gleans some insight into what makes him an award
winner and the leader of his own successful...
Prosecutions and the HSWA 2015
Legal comment on prosecutions and the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA 2015), by Mallory Ward, solicitor, Kensington Swan’s Health and Safety team....
Pile integrity testing
Concrete Structure Investigations (CSI) says it is the only organisation getting reliable results from Pile Integrity Tests (PIT); establishing toe depth and identifying segregation, necking...
Waikanae image gallery
Picture credit: Mark Coote photography ...
High tech monitoring in CRL construction
The construction of the City Rail Link (CRL) tunnels underneath Auckland’s city centre is a major challenge requiring a robust and innovative approach to construction...
New era from Lafarge and Holcim merger
The merger of the world’s biggest cement makers, Lafarge and Holcim, has had a significant impact on the way this country sources its cement. CHRIS...