Right to suspend left dangling
This article was written by Stuart Robertson and Sam McCutcheon. Stuart is a partner and Sam is a solicitor in Kensington Swan’s construction team. The...
Category : Contractor
The new CCNZ president: Brian Warren
It’s barely a year since the merger of the old Contractors Federation with Roading New Zealand to form Civil Contractors NZ, and new president Brian...
Update from the NZ Transport Agency
Tommy Parker, Group Manager, Highways, NZ Transport Agency I’VE JUST RETURNED from a period of time over in the UK – this time away was part...
Stopping a slip
slip-sliding away
This massive slip took ingenuity, logistics and careful planning to clear and stabilise.
RICHARD SILCOCK reports on how working safely was paramount on the highly...
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...
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....