Widening the Waimakariri bridges
Capacity for extra lanes on a pair of Christchurch motorway bridges was built into the original structures, but the passage of time has complicated the...
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End of a Christchurch icon
Holy ground to Cantabrians, Christchurch’s iconic sports stadium Lancaster Park was levelled in the biggest post-earthquake demolition yet. Hugh de Lacy explains. It was a...
High stakes – are you covered?
by Vijay Naidu
THE SKYLINES OF our major cities are dotted with high rise cranes. Major construction works are underway in Auckland. The reconstruction of Christchurch continues and...
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...
The new CCNZ president: Brian Warren
It’s barely a year since the merger of the old Contractors Federation with Roading New Zealand to form Civil Contractors NZ, and new president Brian...
Worthington Contracting: from strength to strength
It’s now a case of where to from here for a small family company that grew rapidly in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes. HUGH...