The government’s budget announcement of an increased infrastructure investment to $71b over five years has potential to deliver results, but civil contractors say the investment must come with more certainty around the work programme ahead and focus on the work at hand. CCNZ Chief Executive Alan Pollard welcomed the new National Resilience Plan, which has an initial funding pool of $6b and a focus on building infrastructure resilience in the medium and long term for at-risk areas, and a $279m investment package for State Highways that focusses on slip prevention, flood mitigation and managing ..read more

By Brayden Hawkes CEO of BoomsUp The civil construction industry is remarkable. What if each new car had to be completely unique and manufactured in your driveway. In construction our plans are always individual and our factory floor might be the middle of a four lane motorway. We are proud of our work and so we should be! Construction professionals don’t ask for a lot of credit, we don’t talk ourselves up. The one platform designed for talking about your professional life (LinkedIn), isn’t used by the majority of our workforce. LinkedIn’s app was created for office workers and that’s exactly ..read more

November is Safe Digging Month, a new initiative supported by beforeUdig and the utility suppliers that use this service to provide maps and safety information on the location of underground services. Each year an average of 15 people suffer life-changing injuries, or worse, after coming into contact with electricity or gas. On top of this, major inconvenience to homes and business can occur following a strike to underground cables or pipes when digging. Whenever you are digging, no matter if your job is big or small you must follow the Five Key Rules of Safe Digging in order to avoid striking ..read more

A new era of how road work sites are managed has arrived with the release of the New Zealand Guide to Temporary Traffic Management, which sets out how road work sites should be managed, replacing the Code of Practice for Temporary Traffic Management. Civil Contractors New Zealand Chief Executive Alan Pollard said the changes from the new guidance meant road work sites would be managed based on assessed risks, rather than the previous compliance-based approach. “The way we manage traffic around road work sites is changing to be based on managing specific risks for each site. The new app ..read more

Tunnelling works under the Auckland Central Post Office for City Rail Link, winner of the Category 5 Award in 2022 Entries are open for the annual Civil Contractors New Zealand Hirepool Construction Excellence Awards. This year’s awards follow on from the 2022 awards, which featured entries for projects across six categories, chosen from 46 finalists.  Hirepool has sponsored the awards since 2009 as CCNZ’s Principal Business Partner. The 2023 awards will be presented at a dinner to be held Friday 1 September at the Cordis Hotel in Auckland as part of The Civil Contractors Contractors Conf ..read more

West Coast sunrise at Stockton Mine We have a new EPIC Work photo contest underway. The theme is ‘Matariki’ (EPIC Spirit) so go ahead can capture that element in your entries. There is the usual selection of fantastic prizes to be won for the person who takes the winning picture. Entries for this round close on July 16 ..read more

Wellington Water and contractor McConnell Dowell are involved in a project at Barber Grove in Lower Hutt using  micro-tunnelling for the first time in the Capital. This unique project is using this trenchless tunnelling innovation to strengthen the Hutt Valley’s wastewater network in preparation for future growth and reduce the risk of wastewater entering the environment in the event of a major earthquake. Watch the short clip below ..read more

A new report on entering New Zealand’s civil infrastructure construction workforce has been published by national association Civil Contractors New Zealand, with support from the Ministry of Social Development and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Titled Developing a Skilled Civil Construction Workforce, the 67-page report explores the challenges and solutions the civil infrastructure construction industry faces in bringing new entrants into the workforce and developing them into skilled civil tradespeople. Civil Contractors Chief Executive Alan Pollard said New Zealand ..read more

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Following the CCNZ conference in Christchurch this month (August) Napier business consultant and former Gair Contracting managing director Bailey Gair was elected unopposed at the association’s 2022 AGM. Bailey replaces outgoing president Tony Pike from Downer and has been on the association’s executive council since 2015, serving her most recent term as vice president. She has previously served on the executive committee of the Hawke’s Bay East Coast Branch, including as its chair, from 2012 until 2014. Bailey acknowledges the immense efforts of Tony during a particularly challenging few year ..read more