Gender pay gap revealed in construction
OneStaff has released its ‘What’s My Rate? New Zealand Industrial and Trades Wage Report’ which provides some interesting insights into our core industrial sectors including...
Tag : construction industry
Speaking frankly
Many men in the construction industry wonder (some out loud, some silently) whether the push for things like stricter health and safety regulations and the...
Perspectives 2019: Legal Report
By Brendan Cash, partner, Helen Brown, special counsel, and Sam Thyne, solicitor, Kensington Swan’s Construction and Major Projects team. Last year in our perspectives article...
Perspectives 2019: World class effort for construction health and safety
by Roger McRae, independent chair, Construction Health and Safety New Zealand (CHASNZ). A new entity has been set up to meet the health and safety...
Classic Machines: International-Harvester’s 495 PayScraper
A large brute of a motor scraper, the International-Harvester model 495 was the only three-axle, open bowl scraper ever offered by the Company and it...
Have you got a plan?
By Charlotte Henley, Partner and Ruvini Rendle, Associate, Kensington Swan When a giant in the construction industry, like Ebert, fails it affects a large part...
Avoiding the disconnected jobsite
The future of the construction industry is not only dependent on developments in large construction equipment but also digital technologies. By James French, Construction Industry...
Constraining factors in construction
By ROB STUMMER, MANAGING DIRECTOR, IFS NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA IN OUR EXPERIENCE – reinforced by a recent construction industry roundtable discussion – there are...
Solving it with containers
by Vijay Naidu
A lot of the innovative work has gone into replacing Queenstown’s iconic Kawarau Falls Bridge with a two-lane bridge including the use of containers. THE...
Risk management in construction
By KENT PERRY, associate, Heaney & Partners THOUSANDS OF PROJECTS involving thousands of contractors are ‘on the go’ in New Zealand every day. These projects...