Roading

UAS case study Roading

UAS case study

At the CCNZ conference last year, Edward Kelly from Fulton Hogan presented a case study on using an unmanned aerial system (UAS) for project work on the Huntly section of the Waikato Expressway. The ‘Huntly Section’ is a 16-kilometre four-lane motorway construction contract with an estimated cost of $320 million. This is one of the...
More CRL 
innovations and updates Roading

More CRL 
innovations and updates

The first contract for the southern end of the City Rail Link project in Auckland was awarded just before the end of last year. THE CONTRACT FOR stormwater diversion works in Mt Eden was awarded to the March Bessac Joint Venture. CRL chief executive Chris Meale says while the focus to date has been in the city centre with the...
Rai Saddle 
realignment Roading

Rai Saddle 
realignment

A key risk-spot on SH6 between Blenheim and Nelson has undergone a challenging realignment. Hugh de Lacy reports. NO FEWER THAN 20 people have died and 93 have been seriously injured in the decade to 2016 along the length of SH6 at the top of the South Island, and the Rai Saddle, one of the two most challenging stretches on that...
A milestone for contracting Roading

A milestone for contracting

Whatever it meant to the people of Kaikoura and North Canterbury, the re-opening of SH1 between Christchurch and Picton on December 15, 2017, albeit only during daylight hours, was a public relations coup for the entire South Island civil contracting industry. Hugh de Lacy explains. A busload of workers and contractors being taken back...
Second stage of the Kapiti Expressway underway Roading

Second stage of the Kapiti Expressway underway

With the construction of the second stage of the Kapiti Expressway now underway. Richard Silcock takes a look at what’s involved. AFTER A TRANCHE of work involving some 12 months of final design, construction planning, consents, site clearing and enabling works, the physical work for the 13-kilometre second stage of the Kapiti...
NZTA & NZIHT conference: Delivering our highway network Roading

NZTA & NZIHT conference: Delivering our highway network

The 18th NZ Transport Agency & NZIHT conference at Trinity Wharf Tauranga was another rich discussion for our roading engineers. Alan Titchall was there. I WONDER IF the person who came up with the title of this year’s NZTA/NZIHT conference knew about the origins of the saying ‘Stand and Deliver’? Up until about the mid...
Recent trials test road markings Roading

Recent trials test road markings

After a lot of research, newly developed road marker products are lasting longer on road pavement surfaces laid by roading contractors in this country. Richard Silcock explains. IN A THREE-YEAR research project that originally started back in 2010, the NZ Transport Agency has been testing a range of products used for marking road centre...
NZTA & NZIHT conference: The view of a major road user Roading

NZTA & NZIHT conference: The view of a major road user

These are highlights from a presentation by Ken Shirley from the Road Transport Forum, made to delegates at the NZTA & NZIHT conference last month, with its ‘customer’ focus. By Alan Titchall. The Road Transport Forum is the voice of the New Zealand road freight industry which involves 22,600 people and has a gross turnover of...
A long time in planning Roading

A long time in planning

The big Waioeka Gorge landslip of 2012 highlighted State Highway 2’s vulnerability and finally led to the replacement of its last one-lane bridge. HUGH DE LACY reports. THERE ARE NO FEWER than 52 bridges within 142 kilometres of State Highway 2 between Opotiki and Gisborne, and the relatively flat and open site seemed to suggest that...
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