New Zealand’s Cat® dealer marked a new era at a special event in Auckland last night. Chief Executive Grant Whitelaw revealed a new company name, Terra Industrial New Zealand Ltd, and outlined a vision for a revitalised future based on new ownership, customer passion for Cat® products and expanded customer solutions. “We are building on…
We have created a slideshow of Champion motor grader images , published with a full profile in our November issue. Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel after watching the latest clip.
We have created a slideshow of Champion motor grader images , published with a full profile in our November issue. Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel after watching the latest clip.
Here’s the latest clip supplied from the CRL Project team of the tunnelling under the Britomart Central Post Office building.
Here’s the latest time-lapse footage of tunnelling activity under the former Chief Post Office.
The NZTA has not made a big fuss about it, but it has changed from a prescriptive PPE policy, to a risked based policy for PPE. “From 2 July 2019 regarding the review of our full PPE policy, we are moving to a risk-based approach for PPE.” Effectively, this now allows businesses to use a…
We’re partnering with Civil Contractors NZ to present the EPIC Photo Competition! Get amongst it and win – enter now at www.epicwork.nz/photocomp and share the amazing sights of civil construction from your work sites. The first round focuses on EPIC Outlooks – so show us what’s great about a job where you can work in the great…
The 27-kilometre, $850 million Transmission Gully Motorway (TGM) project is on schedule for completion in mid-2020, with an official opening to follow. Despite unprecedented issues the JV of CPB and HEB Construction has kept progress tracking. This selection of images- photographs taken by Mark Coote- show the magnitude of the work.
The third and final earthworks season at Ara Tūhono commenced on October 1st. There are 3.5 million cubic metres of earth to move! Have a look at the progress on the latest drone flyover.
After 18 months of construction and renovation TransDiesel celebrated the opening of its newly refurbished building at Halswell Junction Road, Christchurch with two functions held back in October to host staff, suppliers and clients at the functions, including representatives from Volvo, Yanmar, and Terex Finlay. Vincent Tan, CE APAC region president, Volvo officially re-opened the…
This ‘slightly-worn’ HD-14 is one of a pair of Allis-Chalmers tractors that have an interesting backstory. John Schmidt has hunted this tractor down- and wrote to us with the story. The essence of John’s story is thus. A pair of HD-14s, one a dozer and the other a towed scraper tug were probably ex WW11…
Late last month Dignity Ace berthed up at P.O.A with ex-United States consigned goods. Our spy down on the berths spotted a twin engine dozer rolling ashore. The Euclid 8280 is bound for Christchurch, according to our contact. We have some snaps to share with our Contractor audience.
This content was supplied by Principle People, a UK recruitment company. Accidents involving heavy earthmoving equipment are growing in frequency. Aside from the structural damage, there have also been instances of people being injured or killed. These accidents are often caused by equipment failure, human error or both. So, consider implementing steps that can reduce…
Although its demolition started in January the demolition crew responsible has finally brought down the final section of Seattle’s Alaskan double-deck highway. The footage is pretty impressive…
On my way to work yesterday I checked my emails. Jeff Dean, marketing manager of CCM Inc (Classic Construction Models), a construction equipment toy designer based in Oregon, was in touch with a ‘thank you’ note. I pulled over. CCM specialise in making limited edition scale models, and Dean had some direct news. The company…
