A night shift
Yet another great crane shot, this time a Terex Superlift 3800 crawler crane lifting a bridge over a French highway by a Belgium company called...
Category : Contractor
McConnell Dowell – a view from the top
by Vijay Naidu
Roger McRae has spent most of his working life with McConnell Dowell. He talked to our sister magazine Local Government recently about the industry from...
Sorting haulage rules: Jonathan Bhana-Thompson comments
by Vijay Naidu
JONATHAN BHANA-THOMSON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, NZ HEAVY HAULAGE ASSOCIATION THE POSITION OF an industry association can be a difficult one. First and foremost you are representing...
Waterview off-casts make great Memorial
In time for the 2015 ANZAC commemorations, a small rural town has built a monument to its people who fought for this country over...
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...
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...