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 : civil construction industry
Third generation CCNZ member honoured
Image: CCNZ Wellington Wairarapa Branch Chair David Philipson congratulating Vic Draper. The Wellington Wairarapa Branch of Civil Contractors New Zealand has recognised the outstanding career...
Young leaders and training excellence celebrated
Image: Razia Mirzayi from Ghella won the Z Energy Personal Improvement Award. L-R: Fiona Morton (Connexis), award recipient Razia Mirzayi (Ghella) and David Howard (CCNZ)....
Civil contractors demand certainty
David Howard has used his last conference speech as Civil Contractors New Zealand President to highlight the importance of certainty in infrastructure planning, no matter...
Celebrations all round
It was great to attend the Civil Contractors Conference in Wellington in August, along with around 550 other people from the industry. I enjoyed catching...
Civil construction front and centre
Image: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on the conference expo floor in 2025. Some key players in New Zealand civil construction will gather in the capital...
Handing over the baton
The time has come, after 19-plus years, to hand over the editorial content and production of this great publication to Natasha Jojoa Burling, our new...
We offer practical knowledge to policymakers
Voting in the local body elections is in progress and we are already turning our attention to the national elections next year, with the three-year...
A legal perspective for 2023/24
Even with lockdowns a distant memory and a declaration that life was back to normal in 2022, 2023 has nonetheless still had a “crisis feel”...
Thinking differently about immigration
By Alan Pollard, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand. Access to a skilled labour force remains highly constrained for the civil construction industry. Even before...