In the two biggest sales in its 81-year history, the Christchurch-based Gough Group is supplying 95 pieces of Caterpillar machinery, worth $120 million, to Solid Energy's Stockton opencast coking coalmine north of Westport.
At the time of its construction Benmore was the largest earth-fill dam in the Southern Hemisphere and certainly the biggest construction job ever attempted in New Zealand.
The southernmost and coldest wind farm in the world was completed this year thanks to a collaborative effort between New Zealand and the US, and innovative designs by Kiwi engineers and construction teams.
Tricky manoeuvres and clever machines were required to move a very new and very large boat from land to sea.
When cost and environmentally conscious construction and demolition companies combine, everyone benefits.
New Zealand consumers of ready mixed concrete can take comfort in the knowledge that concrete produced and supplied by a plant certified under the Ready Mixed Concrete Association plant audit scheme meets high quality standards.
While all reputable contractors will stand by the quality of their work, contractors are right to be wary of requests to correct so-called ‘defective’ works which are in fact outside the contract scope, particularly where this requires a return to site.
Training and assessing in recent years has definitely increased and, with unit standards included in the latest Approved Code of Practice for cranes, we don’t see it slowing any time soon.
Perhaps no other motor scraper in the history of the genre helped to change the way that contractors thought about moving earth than the LeTourneau C Tournapull.
