Latest Civil Trades achievers
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...
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On board with Civil Trades
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...
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...
Auckland – a congestion nightmare
Auckland’s traffic is not as dense as many other cities such as Sydney and Beijing (pictured) but its traffic management leaves a lot to be...
Contract retention provisions
MALCOLM ABERNETHY, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CIVIL CONTRACTORS NZ. RETENTIONS ARE A HOT TOPIC at the present time with the Minister for Building and Housing, Dr...
Contracting politics can be a lonely game
For nearly six years Jeremy Sole lived alone in Wellington without his family while working on behalf of contractors. He talks about the experience to...
Common sense approach to claw back payments
Contractors and sub-contractors benefit from the Supreme Court decision on a liquidator’s powers to claw back payments made by an insolvent company to a contractor....
Women to the rescue
The critical shortage of skilled truck drivers has been well documented in the news media, but not so well known is an equally threatening shortage...
Parting words from Jeremy Sole- a final column
…much of what the organisation does is not obvious to outside observers and you can only get the value and wider knowledge by participating....