Year on year, the civil construction industry has faced a shortage of skilled workers. Last month a new report on entering the civil infrastructure construction...
Construction gears up for a return to work The Construction Industry Standards and Protocols Group has been involved in drafting a health and safety framework...
By Alan Titchall, managing editor, Contrafed Publishing. In the October 2004 issue of Contractor magazine, the then chief of Roading New Zealand (which later merged...
Stormy weather didn’t deter a good turnout to the Civil Contractors NZ annual stakeholders’ function in Wellington last month. Tuning into CCNZ chief Peter Silcock’s...
The Construction Safety Council is ramping up its activities, especially the ConstructSafe programme, under its new chairman Roger McRae. Hugh de Lacy catches up with...
This article first appeared in Contractor February 2017. A group of Bay of Plenty civil infrastructure workers have new industry Trade Certification to their name...
This article first appeared in Contractor Perspectives 2017. A two-year view of the civil construction industry from its Infrastructure Industry Training Organisation (ITO). David Worsnop, interim...
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...