The epic guy every crew wants
Image: Taylor received the Trainee of the Year Award at the CCNZ Northland Branch Awards in June 2025. When he started with Clements Contractors three...
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Working with friends
Image: As the CCNZ President, Dave Howard welcomed a large gathering of guests at the CCNZ function at Parliament in November last year to celebrate...
Learning on the golf course
From building prestige golf courses to futureproofing the Capital’s water and sewer mains, and being crowned Wellington Wairarapa’s best excavator operator, Corey Olson’s career has...
Putting in the hard yards
Image: L to R: Garth Taylor, MIMICO’s Material Processing Business Manager; Nathan Gibbons, Stevenson Quarry Manager; and Rex Davies, MIMICO’s Managing Director, at the IOQ...
On the frontline of traffic management
Moala Ofa, a finalist for the 2023 CCNZ Emerging Leader Award, is a hard-working Delivery Manager whose motivational and safety-focused leadership style has been noticed...
Emerging leader makes his mark
The winner of the 2023 CCNZ Emerging Leader Award is a young project manager making a big impression at Utilities Infrastructure. By Mary Searle Bell....
Talking with a technical diplomat
Stacy Goldsworthy left his role as Technical Manager for CCNZ last month after five years in the role. Contractor magazine talked to him on the...
Pilot power recognised and awarded
Both a pilot and an industry advocate for many years, Pat Power’s service to the Heavy Haulage Association was recognised with the Chairman’s Award that...
A love of engineering and earthworks
At just 26 years of age, Te Amorangi (TA) Simeon can already lay claim to having better work stories than most contractors of more vintage...
A man of many talents
Ollie (right) at the Brian Perry Civil themed dinner (Steampunk masquerade) at the CCNZ conference in Christchurch last month, with Paul Prendergast from Z Energy. ...