New Zealand’s most challenging NOC
Fulton Hogan‘s West Coast Network Outcomes Contract (NOC) for the NZTA started in September 2015 as a collaborative partnership between five West Coast companies on...
Tag : Network Outcomes Contracts
Road Asset Management (RAM) contracts
Road asset management is about managing existing roads as an integrated asset in the most cost-effective manner. RICHARD SILCOCK talks with some of those involved...
Concerns over pavement quality
During the latter half of last year the Transport Agency commissioned a report on pavement quality in capital projects. This was carried out by Chris...
SCRIM trucks: Sharp Eyes on the Road
The SCRIM trucks were back on our highways over the summer, with the last surveying completed over the lower North and South Island regions in January....
Investing in roading construction: National Land Transport Programme
GEOFF DANGERFIELD, NZTA CHIEF EXECUTIVE Parting NZTA chief executive Geoff Dangerfield puts the huge investment in the country’s roading projects into perspective. THE NEW ZEALAND...
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...
All about relationships- CCNZ’s contracting industry assessment
Civil Contractors New Zealand chief executive Peter Silcock reviews the challenges and wins of the past year and the changes the industry faces during 2016....
Network Outcomes Contracts: early maintenance and operations model results
by Vijay Naidu
Nearly halfway through the roll-out of the NZ Transport Agency’s network outcomes contracts (NOCs), early indications are that the new maintenance and operations approach is...
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...
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....