Roading New Zealand - Latest News [Page 2]
Roading Package Will Be Welcome Boost To Sector
Wednesday, 11 February 2009, 12:35 pm | Roading New Zealand
Roading New Zealand Chief Executive Chris Olsen has welcomed the $142 million package of roading projects announced today by the Minister of Transport, Hon Steven Joyce. More >>
Northern Busway Takes Out Top Roading Award
Tuesday, 26 August 2008, 9:44 am | Roading New Zealand
The first stage of the Northern Busway on Auckland’s North Shore was last night awarded top honours for a new road project at the 2008 Roading Excellence Awards. More >>
Finalists announced for Roading Excellence Awards
Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 5:10 pm | Roading New Zealand
The finalists in the annual Roading Excellence Awards were announced today by Roading New Zealand chief executive Chris Olsen. Sixteen projects from throughout the country have been named finalists in the five categories sponsored by Shell Bitumen, Goughs ... More >>
Record Number Of Entries In 2008 Roading Awards
Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 12:22 am | Roading New Zealand
The 2008 Roading Excellence Awards have attracted a record number of entries, with 30 projects vying for the seven awards. More >>
Get rail network “back on track”
Thursday, 3 July 2008, 2:52 pm | Roading New Zealand
The best way to rectify New Zealand’s ailing rail network is to contract out maintenance work and let Ontrack staff focus on managing the rail asset to provide a sustainable level of service, Roading New Zealand chief executive Chris Olsen says. More >>
Road Funding Squeezed
Wednesday, 27 June 2007, 9:42 am | Roading New Zealand
Roading New Zealand welcomes the 5% percent increase in road maintenance and construction funding for 2007/08 as announced by Land Transport NZ today, but is concerned that it appears to fall short of that required. Roading New Zealand calls on the Government ... More >>
Roading industry gets valuable advice from experts
Wednesday, 30 August 2006, 4:06 pm | Roading New Zealand
International roading experts shared key learnings from the UK with New Zealand’s roading industry yesterday, where they said a collaborative approach is fundamental to the success of roading procurement and tendering. More >>
Greater roading certainty by extension of plan
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 4:46 pm | Roading New Zealand
New Zealand’s roading sector received a confidence boost today when Transport Minister Annette King announced the State Highway plan has been extended to a guaranteed six-year period. The Minister made the announcement this morning at the Roading New Zealand ... More >>
Excellence, innovation celebrated in annual awards
Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 11:32 am | Roading New Zealand
An innovative Queenstown project and work on one of New Zealand’s largest roading viaducts on the country’s busiest piece of road took top honours at the Roading New Zealand Roading Excellence Awards held in Wellington last night. More >>
Finalists announced for Roading Excellence Awards
Friday, 25 August 2006, 11:05 am | Roading New Zealand
The importance of infrastructure growth and top quality roading projects has been highlighted with the announcement of the finalist projects for this year's Roading Excellence Awards. More >>
Emphasis on maintenance of roading applauded
Thursday, 29 June 2006, 9:44 am | Roading New Zealand
Roading New Zealand, the industry organisation representing contractors who carry out most of the country’s roading and civil work, has expressed its strong approval of Land Transport New Zealand’s 2006/07 transport budget, which allocates significant ... More >>
Roading NZ – Response to 2006 Budget
Thursday, 18 May 2006, 8:11 pm | Roading New Zealand
A $13.4 billion land transport spend guaranteed in today’s Budget provides certainty for major roading infrastructure improvements and will encourage further growth in the sector, says Roading New Zealand. More >>
Roading expected to benefit from budget 2006
Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 9:24 am | Roading New Zealand
Roading expected to benefit from budget announcement Awards programme to help industry prepare for growth More >>
Road Construction Funding Methods Critical
Wednesday, 22 February 2006, 8:14 am | Roading New Zealand
The Government and roading sector need to urgently explore other funding methods to maintain current momentum and ensure that vital roading projects do not get delayed, said Chris Olsen, Chief Executive Roading New Zealand. He was responding to today’s ... More >>
Roading Awards Highlight Industry Response
Friday, 2 September 2005, 9:41 am | Roading New Zealand
Roading New Zealand is using its inaugural Roading Excellence Awards to celebrate industry boosting its capacity and changing the way it works so it can respond to increased demands on its resources. More >>
Road Contractors Reject Claims of Skill Shortages
Thursday, 11 August 2005, 5:14 pm | Roading New Zealand
Suggestions made on Television One News last night that roading contractors' will not be able to cope with the extra money being pumped into the city's roading network are inaccurate and misleading said Chris Olsen Chief Executive of the Roading Industry ... More >>
Roading Contractors Grow to Meet Funding Demands
Friday, 1 July 2005, 9:00 am | Roading New Zealand
Land Transport New Zealand's announcement of $1.7 billion funding for the roading sector in 2005/06 combined with other recent Government announcements and Transit New Zealand's 10 year construction programme will see current road construction funding ... More >>
Budget boosts certainty for roading projects
Monday, 23 May 2005, 12:19 am | Roading New Zealand
Roading New Zealand, the industry body representing roading contractors, has welcomed the Budget announcement that an additional $100 million per year will be injected into roading projects, starting in 2006/07. More >>
Roading Companies Offer Dob-In Line
Thursday, 3 March 2005, 6:27 pm | Roading New Zealand
Ever looked at speed restriction signs around road works, observed there are no road workers in sight and figured the Stop/Go guy has gone home, left the signs out by mistake and you can speed through the area same as usual? More >>
Former All Black Supports Roadworks Campaign
Monday, 21 February 2005, 1:36 pm | Roading New Zealand
Former All Black and Kiwi League star Frano Botica knows what can happen when you don’t take enough care around hazardous obstacles. More >>