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Magazine is the voice of the New Zealand civil contracting industry. It provides readers with the news and views, along with in-depth coverage of projects underway throughout the country. The magazine also profiles prominent people and businesses within the industry. Provides health and safety advice, recruitment and training stories, as well as authoritative comment from industry experts. In addition. Is the official magazine of the Civil Contractors New Zealand (CCNZ), the Crane Association of New Zeal...
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Auckland Council's Wai Care Programme: Highly Commended - Local Government Magazine Local Government Magazine
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Auckland Council’s Wai Care Programme: Highly Commended. August 3rd, 2015. At the 2015 LGNZ EXCELLENCE Awards. Air New Zealand EXCELLENCE Award for Environmental Impact. Highly commended – Auckland Council’s Wai Care Programme. Launched in 2000, Wai Care is a collaborative water action programme run by Auckland Council to encourage citizens to form groups to monitor local waterways and catchments. Judges praised the long-term commitment and community involvement of the project and said achieving the end ...
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Grey District Identity Project highly commended - Local Government Magazine Local Government Magazine
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Grey District Identity Project highly commended. July 27th, 2015. At the 2015 LGNZ EXCELLENCE Awards. Fulton Hogan EXCELLENCE Award for Community Impact. Highly Commended: Grey District Council The Heart of the West Coast, Grey District Identity Project. The Heart of the West Coast, Grey District Identity Project was developed in response to the ‘perfect storm’ in the wake of the Pike River disaster, global recession, the effects of the Canterbury earthquakes and the closure of Spring Creek Mine. The pro...
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On a slippery slope? - Local Government Magazine Local Government Magazine
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On a slippery slope? April 22nd, 2015. Changes to standards are on the way, says Water NZ chief executive John Pfahlert. In the coming months it is expected the government will pass the Standards and Accreditation Bill, disestablishing Standards New Zealand as the body responsible for the development and maintenance of standards. There is unease within the wider building and engineering industry in New Zealand that locating standards development within a government department comes with certain risks.
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And/And vs Either/Or - Local Government Magazine Local Government Magazine
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June 17th, 2015. Why we need to integrate green and grey infrastructure in our towns and cities. By Shaun Jones. Yet the concept of project efficiency becomes muddled when factors such as resilience, costs over the project’s entire lifespan and design integration are considered. Arguably, the attention paid to cost becomes a cost in itself. When design and innovation is limited by this framework, an opportunity to integrate the benefits of green infrastructure is lost. The result is that while the tradit...
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Gigatown Timaru highly commended - Local Government Magazine Local Government Magazine
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Gigatown Timaru highly commended. July 24th, 2015. At the 2015 LGNZ EXCELLENCE Awards. Fulton Hogan EXCELLENCE Award for Community Impact. Highly commended: Timaru District Council (Aoraki Development Business and Tourism) Gigatown Timaru. Timaru set out to make the best use of the high-profile national Gigatown competition with a successful initiative that increased the uptake of ultra-fast broadband in the area. The many education, community, promotion and digital enablement initiatives ranged from qui...
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Queenstown Lakes District Council Local Government Magazine
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Adam Feeley: Why measuring performance matters. August 22nd, 2014. Less than two years into the job, chief executive Adam Feeley has made some big changes at Queenstown Lakes District Council. He tells Ruth Le Pla how he’s focusing on fewer measures and driving better performance. That’s all true. But Feeley’s impressive career to date has criss-crossed the private sector and central government and he brings an energetic clarity and decisiveness to a role that can easily be derailed by detail. I mean, we...
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NZ Local Government magazine [July 2016]. LG magazine [June 2016]. June 2016's issue Go disrupt: become your council's digital hero.Road Contract Collaboration: Four councils share their learnings.ALGA's Troy Pickard: Local. NZ Local Government magazine [May 2016]. May 2016's issue Is bigger better: What's the best model for local government? Hastings DC's Ross McLeod: Why ongoing learning matters.Peter Kageyma: How to create. NZ Local Government magazine [April 2016]. NPS Freshwater brings changes.
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2015 Hirepool Construction Excellence Awards. 2015 Hirepool Construction Excellence Awards: Category 5 & 6 Winners. August 8th, 2015. 2015 Hirepool Construction Excellence Awards. Category 5: Excellence in the maintenance and management of assets. Infrastructure Alliance for Hamilton City Council Downer NZ Limited. They collectively work for the good of the asset and this aim is evident. The arrangement guarantees that actual costs of work are reimbursable with profit as an agreed mark up. Works are ...
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