Strong case for a NZQA generic procurement qualification
By Caroline Boot, Clever Buying. Public sector organisations spend more than $99 billion of taxpayer and ratepayer money each year, which is more than 40...
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Skills shortage – a company perspective
This is a precis of a presentation by Domenic De-Fazio, chief executive officer, New Zealand Construction, Fulton Hogan, at the Infrastructure NZ Building Nations Symposium...
Recent trials test road markings
After a lot of research, newly developed road marker products are lasting longer on road pavement surfaces laid by roading contractors in this country. Richard...
Wasps and other challenges
The Midland Line dodged a bullet from New Zealand’s biggest-ever earthquake – the South Island Main Trunk didn’t – but copped a beating from other...
Container crane reshuffle at Fergusson Container Terminal
A recent project at the Ports of Auckland has seen two of its smaller container cranes relocated from one end of the wharf to the...
Swinging from the job
The past quarter-century has seen abseiling rise from a pastime for the not-so-faint-at-heart to a vital service in the civil construction industry. Hugh de Lacy...
The dissolution of SCIRT
Just as the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority was disbanded after five years of painstaking reconstruction, so too will SCIRT be dismantled and ‘normality’, of a...
Western Belfast Bypass project
Three major highway projects in a row are under construction around the western side of Christchurch. HUGH DE LACY takes a look at the northernmost...
An eye on Bathurst
ALAN TITCHALL looks at the relationship between an up-and-coming civil contractor and a young racing car driver with an eye on Bathurst. MARK NEILSON, managing...
Upgrading the Remarkables ski-field access road
One of the country’s highest roads was recently upgraded and extended by over five kilometres. RICHARD SILCOCK explains how this difficult project was achieved. THE...