Lessons for directors from the death of a titan
By Patrick Glennie (Partner), Brendan Cash (Partner) Ella Arbuckle Page (Associate), and Caitlin Hogan (Solicitor) in Dentons New Zealand’s Major Projects and Construction team. On...
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Rapid construction restart key to economic recovery
Government guidance on handling construction contracts will give many construction companies the confidence to continue to employ their people and take a lead role in...
Former All Black suicide prevention educator
by Drew Padgett
Former Maori All Black Slade McFarland is to lead MATES In Construction work with Kainga Ora to reduce NZ suicides. MATES was set up in...
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...
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: 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...
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...