Profit and health and safety: comment from Malcolm Abernethy
Malcolm Abernethy, Executive officer, Civil Contractors NZ This month (June 2015) I am writing this column in two sections that are loosely linked. It is...
Category : Contractor
Zero Harm Group: leading the industry through reform
by Vijay Naidu
MALCOLM ABERNETHY, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CIVIL CONTRACTORS NZ AS WITH THE PREQUALIFICATION work that I mentioned in this column last month, there is considerable work and...
Transport Agency projects – Fixing SH20A
IN SIMPLE TERMS, the SH20A (Auckland) to Airport upgrade involves turning a current expressway standard intersection into a motorway standard one. A lot of readers...
The Masher – a seismic breakthrough
by Vijay Naidu
Wellington’s Te Papa museum is internationally renowned for its fine collection as well as its ingenious earthquake-proof technology – the 135 base isolators (lead-rubber bearings)...
Harsh lesson with non-payment
A Civil Contractors NZ member has just endured an 18-month struggle chasing just over $1 million owed it by a developer of a lifestyle...
Skid Resistant Roading Material: looking for the God particle
AQA technical advisor BILL BOURKE updates the continuing search for the ideal skid resistant roading material. The AQA’s technical group has been consulting with the...
A winning change of direction
The popular image of a heavy-haulage operator is someone who entered the industry early and drove a truck for years before rising through the ranks...
Higgins sets roundabout straight
Two and a half years after 31-year-old American tourist Kallan Stithem died at a notorious King Country intersection while on his honeymoon, the New Zealand Transport...
Waterview Tunnel footage shot from UAV
A drone with a video camera attached has been flown from one end of the first Waterview tunnel to the other. Here’s the footage that...
Please don’t stress the pipes
Anecdotal evidence points to a slight increase in the incidence of cracks appearing in newly-laid concrete stormwater pipes. The Concrete Pipe Association says multiple...