The Golden Years
It is a great honour to present this issue to mark Contractor magazine’s golden anniversary. I wonder if the founders imagined this magazine would endure...
Tag : Aggregate and Quarry Association
Beneath the BLACK ART
Proving aggregate quality properly, before the surfacing goes on, protects the whole pavement and everyone’s margin in it, writes Arne Corrie-Johnston, Civil Contractors New Zealand...
Wellington, we have a problem
Caption: Infrastructure CEO Ross Copland By WAYNE SCOTT, CEO, AGGREGATE AND QUARRY ASSOCIATION. Our country has a $75 billon plus infrastructure deficit to meet, Infrastructure...
Growing pains need careful management
Wayne Scott, CEO of the Aggregate and Quarry Association says real reforms are required from this year’s review of the RMA, if only to provide...
Let’s not become a BANANA republic
By Wayne Scott, joint chief executive of the Aggregate and Quarry Association AQA and MinEx, the Mining/Extractives health and safety organisation. We seem to like...
Change and challenge ahead for quarry sector
A new year, a new government, a half century celebration and potentially for the quarry sector, a change in structure; that’s how 2018 is shaping...
Aggregate matters and concerns
High failure rates for B Grade quarry qualifications are a symptom of wider issues within the quarry industry which it is determined to address as...
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...