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Tuesday, 5 August 2025 Chief Executive's Upfront Supporting Engineers to Deliver Quality, Low-Carbon Projects » Concrete NZ was pleased to exhibit at the recent SESOC Conference in Wellington - an important opportunity to connect with...
Wednesday, 3 July 2024 Chief Executive's Upfront Concrete Roads for Resilient Infrastructure » In the ever-evolving landscape of transportation needs, concrete roads have an established international pedigree, offerin...
Monday, 1 April 2024 Chief Executive's Upfront First Sustainability Report Published » Concrete NZ has had a busy start to the year, with the release of the inaugural Sustainability Report for the Aotearoa New...
Monday, 12 February 2024 Chief Executive's Upfront Set to Drive Sustainability and Economic Growth in New Zealand » In the ever-evolving landscape of transportation needs, concrete roads have an established international pedigree, offerin...
Thursday, 7 December 2023 Chief Executive's Upfront Industry's Brief to Incoming Ministers » With the recent change in Government Concrete NZ distributed a Briefing to Incoming Ministers (BIM) which outlined key pol...
Sunday, 26 November 2023 Chief Executive's Upfront Concrete Actions Moving Forward » Having emerged from the global pandemic the New Zealand construction sector has had to grapple with a slowing economy over...
Monday, 30 October 2023 Chief Executive's Upfront New Government - Focus On Resilient Infrastructure » Thank you to everyone who attended our recent conference at Claudelands. It was an outstanding success with fantastic feed...
Tuesday, 18 April 2023 Chief Executive's Upfront A Resilient, Low Carbon, Concrete Way Forward » In the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle there has been a lot of comment around the urgent need to plan and build resilient infras...
Thursday, 2 March 2023 Chief Executive's Upfront Construction Growth Predicted Following Cyclone Gabrielle » Demand for concrete is expected to continue well into 2023 and 2024, particularly for infrastructure and non-residential c...
Saturday, 14 January 2023 Chief Executive's Upfront Concrete Roadmap to a Low Carbon Future » It seems as if we have already moved-on from the global pandemic, but a moment’s reflection reminds us that Omicron arrive...
Tuesday, 9 August 2022 Chief Executive's Upfront Commerce Commission Residential Building Supplies Market Study » Late last week the Commerce Commission released its draft report for the residential building supplies market study....
Monday, 9 May 2022 Chief Executive's Upfront Government Relations: One of Many Hats » Industry associations wear many hats, traditionally emphasising the sharing of best practice and the development of techni...
Wednesday, 13 April 2022 Chief Executive's Upfront Low Carbon Concrete Renaissance » The concrete industry is in the midst of a fervent period of progress, as recent achievements in emissions reduction are s...
Tuesday, 15 February 2022 Chief Executive's Upfront Recarbonation: Absorbing Facts About Concrete » The concept that the world’s concrete infrastructure provides the single largest human-made carbon sink has genuine scient...
Monday, 29 November 2021 Chief Executive's Upfront Quality Never Goes Out of Fashion » Although the construction sector is busy managing the continued uncertainty created by COVID-19, building quality must nev...
Thursday, 15 July 2021 Chief Executive's Upfront Materials Neutral Government Procurement Confirmed » The first half of 2021 has seen a huge amount of government consultation across the building and construction sector which...
Tuesday, 4 May 2021 Chief Executive's Upfront Raising Standards: Building a Sustainable Development Framework » For many years Concrete NZ has been lobbying government to implement an adequately funded review of the Building Code syst...
Friday, 19 February 2021 Chief Executive's Upfront Innovative Cements to Reduce Emissions » The New Zealand concrete industry has highlighted its recent success in reducing emissions along with its vision to progre...
Tuesday, 24 November 2020 Chief Executive's Upfront Building a Productive Relationship with Government » There is much the recently elected Labour Government can do, in partnership with industry, to ensure quality infrastructur...
Wednesday, 11 November 2020 Chief Executive's Upfront A Sustainable Concrete Roadmap For The Future » In New Zealand, the case for concrete road pavements (concrete roads) is more compelling than ever. Rob Gaims...
Sunday, 27 September 2020 Chief Executive's Upfront Account for Carbon Over a Building’s Whole-Of-Life » While New Zealand looks to recover from the effects of COVID-19, it must also remain focussed on emissions reduction, a k...
Tuesday, 16 June 2020 Chief Executive's Upfront Industry Feedback on Future Options for Concrete Standards » In a previous Upfront, I discussed how it is time to consider a more streamlined framework for the suite of structural des...
Thursday, 7 May 2020 Chief Executive's Upfront Continued Co-Operation Key To Recovery » The COVID-19 pandemic has been a gigantic blow to the New Zealand construction sector and the wider NZ economy, the conseq...
Tuesday, 7 April 2020 Chief Executive's Upfront Construction - Let's Get Started » Like many parts of the construction sector, the impacts of the COVID-19 response have been massive on the concrete industr...
Sunday, 9 February 2020 Chief Executive's Upfront Future Options For Concrete Industry Standards » As New Zealand struggles to maintain its suite of structural design and material production Standards, is it time to consi...
Tuesday, 19 November 2019 Chief Executive's Upfront Resilience Must Not Be Compromised » The Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill, which sets a target to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 20...
Thursday, 8 August 2019 Chief Executive's Upfront Concrete & Zero Carbon: Meeting Demand Sustainably » Concrete NZ supports the rationale behind the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill , which seeks to ensur...
Friday, 14 June 2019 Chief Executive's Upfront Concrete's Contribution to Living Standards » With the change of Government in 2017, came a different way of looking at how the economy and the nation are performing....
Wednesday, 12 June 2019 Chief Executive's Upfront Government Relations: The Long & the Short of It » Opinion is divided as to whether the current Labour-led Government is as ‘transformational’ as it claims. While the...
Thursday, 14 February 2019 Chief Executive's Upfront Concrete Structures: An Assured Future » With new provisions to the concrete structures Standard, extensive concrete-based research programmes and increasing aware...
Wednesday, 23 January 2019 Chief Executive's Upfront Building Concrete Confidence » The construction mood of 2018 was one of caution in response to the 2017 change of Government. At the same time margins we...
Sunday, 16 December 2018 Chief Executive's Upfront Fire Safety - No Room For Error » The concrete vs. timber vs. steel debate has been raging for decades, as representatives for each industry profess the ben...
Monday, 4 June 2018 Chief Executive's Upfront Concrete Ideas to Get Auckland Moving » Construction activity across New Zealand, and particularly the Auckland region, is running at record levels. This is a wel...
Monday, 19 February 2018 Chief Executive's Upfront Pro-Wood Government Procurement Not The Answer » When a construction project is undertaken, the principals should be free to choose the most suitable building materials.&n...
Monday, 20 November 2017 Chief Executive's Upfront Innovate A Competitive Future » We find ourselves in strange times. Construction is at almost unprecedented levels and the ‘job sheet’ remains full for th...
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