Ferrymead Bridge: a classic lesson
The piles on Christchurch’s Ferrymead Bridge would never survive a decent earthquake, the experts said – and then one arrived and proved them right. Hugh...
Category : Feature
The Masher – a seismic breakthrough
by Vijay Naidu
Wellington’s Te Papa museum is internationally renowned for its fine collection as well as its ingenious earthquake-proof technology – the 135 base isolators (lead-rubber bearings)...
New Memorial Park for ANZAC Day
The new Pukeahu National War Memorial Park in Wellington was officially opened by Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae on April 18. The Memorial Park will...
Unique engineering lessons from Christchurch
THE NEW SUMNER Surf Life Saving Club building was under the triple threats of sea erosion, liquefaction and lateral movement, and engineering consultancy...
GPS lessons from Australia
Jim French, a heavy construction specialist at Navman Wireless, believes that in the future big construction companies will require GPS tracking of all contractors...
The art of making swimming pools
ALAN TITCHALL visits excavator maestro Brian Hoffman while he is working on a tricky swimming pool site in Auckland. THE SHARED DRIVEWAY is stepped and...
Heavy hauling through Northland
It was one of the biggest loads that Northland’s winding roads could handle, yet Tranzcarr made moving Top Energy’s new transformer to site look easy....
Cones: There’s more to them than you’d think
Flowers in road cones have come to symbolise the Canterbury earthquake recovery, but they’ve a longer history than that. HUGH DE LACY delves. THEY’VE...
Dealing with tight tolerances
A family run contractor employs the latest surveying technology to build a council roading project with challengingly tight tolerances. IN OCTOBER LAST year Jilesen Contractors...
Emily’s great bridge
Constructed in the 1870s, the iconic Brooklyn Bridge in New York is legendary for several reasons, one being the pivotal role Emily Warren Roebling held...