The dissolution of SCIRT
Just as the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority was disbanded after five years of painstaking reconstruction, so too will SCIRT be dismantled and ‘normality’, of a...
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Heavy Haulage Conference 2016
Heavy hauliers gathered in Christchurch last month for their annual Heavy Haulage Conference. MARY SEARLE BELL was there. THE HOT TOPIC THIS year was the proposed...
Stopping a slip
slip-sliding away
This massive slip took ingenuity, logistics and careful planning to clear and stabilise.
RICHARD SILCOCK reports on how working safely was paramount on the highly...
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...
Fergus Gammie: In charge of our transport
Fergus Gammie explains the meaning of ‘transport’ from his role as the Transport Agency’s new chief executive. By RICHARD SILCOCK. QUIETLY SPOKEN but confident perhaps...
French giant steps up its Kiwi presence
One of our biggest privately-owned contractors, HEB Construction, has been sold to French construction group Vinci for an undisclosed sum. The sale is consistent with...
zero harm safety app for association members
From next month most Civil Contractors New Zealand members will have free access to a new award-winning app for iPhone and Android to record incidents...
Zero Harm Group: leading the industry through reform
by Vijay Naidu
MALCOLM ABERNETHY, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, CIVIL CONTRACTORS NZ AS WITH THE PREQUALIFICATION work that I mentioned in this column last month, there is considerable work and...
Higgins sets roundabout straight
Two and a half years after 31-year-old American tourist Kallan Stithem died at a notorious King Country intersection while on his honeymoon, the New Zealand Transport...
Taking the high road
DR BRYAN PIDWERBESKY, Fulton Hogan’s resident pavement and surfacing expert, reviews the country’s current approach to roading design. DESIGNING AND CONSTRUCTING the country’s roads...