Potholes – a proactive approach
Simon Everett, the director of Solution-SE, has 40 years’ experience with technical and management roles associated with pavement maintenance, bitumen and asphalt. Potholes are the...
Category : Roading
New WSP testing trailer hits the highway
Drivers in the central North Island may recently have noticed a large, WSP-branded trailer parked up near road crews and wondered what it contains. While...
Impact of works and closures on routes
Over the past 12 months we have seen an unprecedented number of closures to the roading network because of weather issues. Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, Chief Executive,...
New Zealand’s most challenging NOC
Fulton Hogan‘s West Coast Network Outcomes Contract (NOC) for the NZTA started in September 2015 as a collaborative partnership between five West Coast companies on...
Unlocking the value of standardised transport data
Supplied by the Asset Management Data Standard Programme Team at the NZ Transport Agency. Picture a world where data is easily described and recorded, readily...
Transmission Gully problems will be forgotten
Above: One of the asphalt paving machines working along a section of the motorway. Photo by Mark Coote Photography. When the first sod was turned...
Highest bridge required biggest dig
The highest bridge to be constructed on the Hamilton section of the Waikato Expressway required 144,000 cubic metres of earth to be excavated beneath it....
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...
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,...
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...