Roading

More than a highway Roading

More than a highway

Akin to a giant jigsaw, a transport project made up of interlinking and diverse parts is being constructed in Auckland. Richard Silcock reports. Known as the Northern Corridor Improvements (NCI) programme this transport package will, when completed in four years’ time, extend SH18, provide additional busway facilities, introduce a...
Tight site and a tight frame Roading

Tight site and a tight frame

For Fulton Hogan, tasked with constructing a new section of road, installing stormwater pipes and upgrading the sewer on a narrow site near Queenstown Airport, it was a race against the onset of winter and the tourist season. Richard Silcock explains. Since opening in late December last year, the Eastern Access (Hawthorne Road...
Mt Messenger to Awakino Gorge improvements Roading

Mt Messenger to Awakino Gorge improvements

Since 2007 11 deaths and 45 serious injuries have occurred on a section of SH3, making it a high priority for improvement. Richard Silcock checks out the current work and reports on the plans for constructing two bypasses. IMPROVEMENT PLANS for the 58-kilometre, Mt Messenger to Awakino Gorge section of SH3 on the north-western flanks...
Explaining REG and its role in roading Roading

Explaining REG and its role in roading

By Andrew McKillop, programme manager, Road Efficiency Group THE ROAD EFFICIENCY Group (REG) has been working with Road Controlling Authorities (RCAs) since its establishment in 2013. It was set up in response to the government Road Maintenance Task Force (RMTF) and is a collaborative project between Local Government NZ and NZ...
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...
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