Peter Silcock, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand I attended a Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment workshop yesterday to provide contractor input into the draft strategy on Government Procurement, and the Ministry’s draft Construction Skills Action Plan. It was great to see procurement at the centre of this new Government plan – and it…
A new Taranaki firm, Utility Scan, specialises in state-of-the-art underground services in the region. “Strikes on underground services like electricity, gas, water or sewerage are surprisingly common,” says Utility Scan operations manager Ben Giles. Utility Scan supplies detailed information of underground assets by using cutting-edge technology and internationally recognised training and industry experience. Giles says…
Auckland based earthmoving company The Digger Collective has recently purchased its second Sumitomo SH235X-6 from New Zealand distributor, AB Equipment. However, there was something very special about this one. It was wanted in a hurry! “We put it out to tender but on the condition that it was very time critical, the excavator needed to…
Peter Silcock, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand Over the past few months, Civil Contractors New Zealand has been working to develop new tools to represent and assist the industry. These efforts have resulted in the release of our new website at http://www.civilcontractors.co.nz, and the release to members of the EPIC Careers in Infrastructure toolkit.…
New images released by London’s new Crossrail underground highlight construction progress across the route to deliver the city’s newest railway, the Elizabeth line. Construction of the Elizabeth line has entered its final stages with fit-out of the new Elizabeth line stations and tunnels advanced with intensive work underway. From the summer, Crossrail will begin handing…
Hey guys, an open letter to all of you that do contracting work on our state highways. I know that it is an NZTA requirement that all STOP/GO operators are to be fully in ORANGE PPE while on site operating the traffic control, but why not pressure NZTA to change this colour to Hi-Viz Green/Yellow.…
The 2018 regional excavator operator competitions kicked off at Mystery Creek during FieldDays, 13 – 16 June last week. The CCNZ Waikato and Bay of Plenty Branches competed against operators in their regions, with registrations closing early to accommodate the 32 competitors over two days of competition. Congratulations to: Waikato Branch Winner Clayton Daldy (Brian…
Time for some visuals from Huntly, where bulk earthworks around Taupiri Pass have slowed down with the arrival of Winter. Kade Croft from Geotechnics Ltd paid a site visit to Huntly Bypass last week.
Komatsu has released the HD1500-8 mechanical drive dump truck, a 142 metric tonne capacity hauler designed to reduce cost per tonne through such features as highest payload in its class, faster cycle times, improved fuel efficiency, longer component life and enhanced maintainability. It replaces Komatsu’s HD1500-7, introduced in 2008 and with more than 50 units…
Three big Hitachi Zaxis excavators at work – a 480, 450 and 200 – demolishing a 21-year-old, multi-level Auckland apartment building on Mt Eden Road Auckland to make way for the new Mt Eden Railway Station on the city’s $3.4 billion City Rail Link. The 11 apartments cost the council $7.8 miliion to buy all…
Grant Rinkhoff from the US enjoyed our Classic Machine article on the Oliver OC-18 so much he sent us his own story of an Oliver rebuild organised by his father Ed. This Oliver OC-18 was bought new in 1956 with a 12 foot angle dozer blade, a double cable winch, 24 volt battery starter and…
Kubota’s KX033-4 compact, three tone excavator is the latest member of its KX series and replaces the KX91-3. The machine shares many of the standard features that Kubota’s larger class machines including a larger cab, dash-controlled pre-sets for auxiliary circuits and a standard hydraulic diverter valve are a few examples of the new features. “The…
