The Infrastructure Comission’s recent findings
Two new research papers from the Infrastructure Commission provide baseline information on our infrastructure workforce and global and local factors impacting on labour and material...
Tag : horizontal infrastructure
BIM technology – a powerful tool to save lives
Digitisation of the real world into virtual representations is ever increasing. Just as Google Maps has created a virtual representation of roads and places, Building...
Working against the elements: Mingha Bluff realignment on SH73
Rain, wind and snow have conspired to delay a major realignment on SH73 between Canterbury and the West Coast. Hugh de Lacy gets his wet...
Swinging from the job
The past quarter-century has seen abseiling rise from a pastime for the not-so-faint-at-heart to a vital service in the civil construction industry. Hugh de Lacy...
Guidelines for resilient underground utilities
John Pfahlert, CEO, Water New Zealand and Philip McFarlane, Opus water sector leader, asset management. WE CAN’T PREDICT when an earthquake will occur but it...
A day at Christchurch’s Avon-Heathcote Estuary
Repairing and widening the roads around Christchurch’s iconic Avon-Heathcote Estuary posed many interesting challenges, not all of them anticipated, as CHRIS MACANN explains. FOR MANY,...