Roads of National Significance

Giant crawler-crane helps construct long bridge Roads of National Significance

Giant crawler-crane helps construct long bridge

A giant crawler-crane was used for constructing the longest bridge on the Kapiti Expressway. RICHARD SILCOCK checks out the engineering challenges and some stats on the crane. Featured image shows the giant crawler crane with counterbalance weights positioning a 150 tonne cross head beam onto a bridge pier. ONE OF 18 BRIDGES along an...
RoNS: The issue of pavement quality Roads of National Significance

RoNS: The issue of pavement quality

The third article in our series on the roading big picture focuses on a NZ Transport Agency commissioned report on big project pavement quality. By ALAN TITCHALL. LAST YEAR the New Zealand Transport Agency commissioned Chris Olsen Consulting to prepare a report on pavement quality on its state highway network projects. The findings...
RoNS – a lesson in remedial work Roads of National Significance

RoNS – a lesson in remedial work

Our second feature on the Roads of National Significance looks at the completed Tauranga Eastern Link and the protracted settlement over local network rehabilitation, which is a lesson for future RoNS. By ALAN TITCHALL, and based on a presentation at the 2016 Road Infrastructure Management Forum. THE TAURANGA EASTERN LINK (TEL) opened...
The original seven RoNS for dummies Roads of National Significance

The original seven RoNS for dummies

ALAN TITCHALL looks at the origins of the ‘Roads of National Significance’ (RoNS) in part one of a three-part article series that will also cover project highlights and contractor performance, and future projects and their funding. WHEN IT COMES to grand schemes there can be none grander than the National Government’s National...
Chocks away for Transmission Gully Roads of National Significance

Chocks away for Transmission Gully

Physical work has started on Wellington’s $850 million Transmission Gully Motorway. It is the first New Zealand motorway to be constructed, financed  and maintained under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract.  RICHARD SILCOCK reports. AFTER COUNTLESS DECADES of discussion and feasibility studies that date back to the 1940s,...
Transport Agency project: the Waikato Expressway Roads of National Significance

Transport Agency project: the Waikato Expressway

Construction work on the $2.1 billion, 102 kilometre-long Waikato Expressway is, according to the NZ Transport Agency, ramping up and moving along and is pretty much on schedule for completion by early 2020. By RICHARD SILCOCK. STARTING AT THE intersection of SH1 and SH2 on the southern side of the Bombay Hills, the divided four-lane...
Christchurch roading project on its way Roads of National Significance

Christchurch roading project on its way

The obligatory sod-turning for $112 million Christchurch roading project has been done and the project is on its way and due for completion in 2018. The expansion of the Western Corridor (State Highway 1) to four lanes is one of the Government’s Roads of National Significance projects (RoNS). The Russley Road section, from Harewood...
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