Auckland-based retaining wall specialists, ICB Retaining and Construction, has recently taken delivery of a 22.5 tonne, short rear-end swing radius Hitachi ZX225USRLC-3, fitted with the DH18 LoDrill telescopic hole borer.
A unique set of challenges faced the builders of a new bridge on the West Coast. Hugh de Lacy examines how they did it.
A notorious black-spot on State Highway 1 is getting a long-overdue makeover.
The use of concrete in deep-sea offshore energy projects is becoming more common as explorers are forced into harsher ocean environments.
As well as encouraging employees to work towards qualifications, Underground Connections owner Greg Parkin is an InfraTrain registered assessor and was involved in the review of the National Certificate in Civil Construction Works (Horizontal Directional Drilling) last year.
As the scope for international companies working within New Zealand increases and contracts are formed with local companies by global logistics suppliers, there is an increasing need for harmonisation of standards and better communication globally.
The federation conducted a survey of job numbers in the industry in late 2009 and found the workforce had declined by almost 12 percent over six months, especially in the latter part of what should have been the strongest phase of the construction season.
Fifteen years after the mandatory tendering out of all roading work, competition is still strong in the sector with 189 different contractors actively winning work in the sector during 2008/09.
What happens when title in the construction site (generally the only asset owned by the development company) is transferred away to a related party, to frustrate a contractor’s efforts at recovery?
Simply loading all risks on to the contractor – regardless of his ability to manage them – is not good risk management. But it does give the legal profession lots of work!
This rather interesting piece of machinery can trace it’s origins through three decades and three countries: the USA, Australia and New Zealand.
Trains, cars and whitebait
Concrete paves the way at sea
Keeping training underground
Heavyweights push for partnerships
Nursing the industry through the recession
Roading competition still strong and healthy
Associates beware
Complicated contracts stymie projects
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