‘I put my all into it’
CCNZ chief executive, Peter Silcock retired at the end of last year after six-and-a-half years in the job. Richard Silcock (no relation), who interviewed Peter...
Tag : civil contracting industry
From the rugby field to Downer’s management
After a promising career as a professional rugby player, Craig West hung up his boots and re-joined his former employer, Downer NZ in 2009 and...
Connected thinking
by Vijay Naidu
By the time you read this the election will be all over. Depending on the result, we will have a government, or we will be...
On the job front: a recruitment perspective
by Jason Walker, Managing Director of Hays New Zealand Recruitment activity in New Zealand’s civil contracting industry certainly experienced a monumental shift in focus in...
Paying respect to Arnold Downer’s legacy
by Vijay Naidu
Of the handful of family names indelibly etched in the history of our civil contracting industry is Downer, founded by engineer Arnold Downer over 80...
John Deere makes the Grade
Even before Sam Pemberton’s new full-featured John Deere 670 Grade Pro (GP) motor grader arrived at his company’s Hamilton yard, it had already created...