Rapid repairs kept highway open
SH94 to remote Milford Sound was severely damaged during a savage storm and, despite the various pandemic lockdowns, the Milford Road Alliance worked tirelessly to...
Category : Feature
Legal pot: what happened overseas?
In a typical Kiwi way we are struggling with our own debate over Cannabis reform while ignoring the fact it has been legal in Canada...
Lifting for the America’s Cup
NZ Crane Hire is providing a lift in lead up to America’s Cup as an official Team New Zealand supplier responsible for lifting the race...
A near miss
A truck crashing through the side of a Desert Road bridge in 2017 threatened to shut the entire highway for months. It didn’t, but it...
Corrosion impact on bridge infrastructure
Throughout the region there are tens of thousands of bridges and related infrastructure and the design and construction material used to build these assets presents...
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...
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...