The value of working together
By Peter Silcock, CEO, CCNZ. You may have noticed a surge in CCNZ membership featuring in the back page of Contractor magazine over the past...
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Economic situation remains a contradiction
By Dr Ganesh Nana, chief economist, Business and Economic Research. Looking back on 2019 from one perspective, I point to remarkable employment numbers, house construction...
Farewelling Geoff Dangerfield
NZ Transport Agency CEO Geoff Dangerfield recently stepped down from his role as leader of the agency, after taking the organisation through a complex merger...
Dad’s idea – as realised by his son (Chris Olsen)
The idea of bundling performance contracts had an interesting beginning – it started with a Hutt Valley contractor and his son. By ALAN TITCHALL. TODAY’S...
Local authorities teaming up with NZTA – how is the NOC model impacting local government?
The NZTA’s new NOC model has affected contract work from contractors’ other main source of work – local governments which, around the country, are...
Why Government needs to take water funding seriously
JOHN PFAHLERT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, WATER NZ IT TOOK OUR Prime Minister less than 12 hours to dismiss the latest request by Local Government New...
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....