Working the dream
When your childhood passion is making things, the choice between following your father into a career in accountancy, or opting for an engineering degree is...
Tag : civil construction
Poor procurement holding us back
By Peter Silcock, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand. ONE OF THE CENTREPIECES of Finance Minister Steven Joyce’s Budget was the $11 billion per year...
Fulton Hogan & Endometriosis NZ: Working together for women
This article first appeared in Contractor March 2017. An unlikely relationship was cemented earlier last year when Fulton Hogan, a large company with 80 percent...
Network Outcomes Contracts – an industry game changer
The Transport Agency’s new Network Outcomes Contracts (NOCs) model represents a paradigm shift in the way our highway network is maintained, and it has changed...
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...
Learning the basics at Tai Poutini
ALAN TITCHALL revisits a polytechnic dedicated to training basic skills for those looking for work in the civil construction and surface extraction industries, and explains,...