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BRETT GLIDDON, GENERAL MANAGER, SYSTEM DESIGN AND DELIVERY, NZTA THIS IS MY FIRST COLUMN as the NZ Transport Agency’s new general manager, System Design and...
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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...
Robot assists Christchurch rebuild
CONTRACTORS REPAIRING EARTHQUAKE-HIT Christchurch are using a hydro-demolition robot in a project to rebuild part of the city’s wastewater system. The Aqua Cutter from Aquajet...
On the job front: a recruitment perspective
by Jason Walker, Managing Director of Hays New Zealand Recruitment activity in New Zealand’s civil contracting industry certainly experienced a monumental shift in focus in...
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,...
Worthington Contracting: from strength to strength
It’s now a case of where to from here for a small family company that grew rapidly in the aftermath of the Canterbury earthquakes. HUGH...
Ferrymead Bridge: a classic lesson
The piles on Christchurch’s Ferrymead Bridge would never survive a decent earthquake, the experts said – and then one arrived and proved them right. Hugh...
Christchurch soldiers on
Construction activity in Christchurch may well have plateaued, but rumours of the demise of the earthquake-induced construction boom have been greatly exaggerated, says HUGH DE...