Chocks away for Transmission Gully
Physical work has started on Wellington’s $850 million Transmission Gully Motorway. It is the first New Zealand motorway to be constructed, financed and maintained under...
Category : Contractor
Contractors’ challenges – may common sense prevail
by Roger Parton, CEO of Aggregate & Quarry Association Access to resources and the new health and safety requirements are two of the biggest challenges...
Keeping on the move
SIMON BRIDGES, MINISTER OF TRANSPORT The government is making a record investment in transport infrastructure, while preparing for new technologies that will change how we...
Civil Trades regime launched
The first Certified Civil Tradespeople were honoured at the Civil Trades national launch, which took place at parliament on December 1st. The group, made up...
Lyttelton Port expansion
Earthquake-battered Lyttelton Port, our third largest and the South Island’s biggest container terminal, is a step closer to major expansion after Environment Canterbury commissioners approved...
Devonport’s Calliope Drydock – favored by fate
When it opened 130 years ago Devonport’s Calliope drydock was the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Dug by hand in a little over three years,...
Innovative infrastructure
DR BRYAN PIDWERBESKY and CHLOE SMITH of Fulton Hogan explore innovation, sharing insights on how it is viewed within the infrastructure industry and providing examples of how it...
Catching up with Joe Edwards
After many years on the Contractor’s Federation national executive, Joe Edwards made a graceful exit at this year’s CCNZ AGM. He talks to Alan Titchall...
Linking communities: The Waitaki Bridges Replacement project
The Waitaki Bridges Replacement project is an example of both construction excellence, innovation, and outstanding community engagement. BY MARY SEARLE BELL. THE WAITAKI RIVER runs...
A day at Christchurch’s Avon-Heathcote Estuary
Repairing and widening the roads around Christchurch’s iconic Avon-Heathcote Estuary posed many interesting challenges, not all of them anticipated, as CHRIS MACANN explains. FOR MANY,...