A tight squeeze
Image: The team entering a bridge beam. The height here is only 600mm. Working in tight spaces can provide a whole array of challenges for...
Category : Project
Unblocking the infrastructure pipeline
Alan Pollard, CEO, Civil Contractors NZ Wherever I travel across our branch network, the overwhelming issue that is at the top of members’ minds is...
Micro-TBM project
Wellington Water and contractor McConnell Dowell are involved in a project at Barber Grove in Lower Hutt using micro-tunnelling for the first time in the...
Into the wild weather with innovative machines
Facing difficult ground conditions and dire weather, the team at Marais Laying has successfully laid optic fibre cable along the highway between Haast and Lake...
Expressway delays explained
Completion of the Peka Peka to north of Otaki (PP2O) section of the Kapiti Expressway has, like many other large road projects in the country,...
Escalated cost and climate policies compromise NZUP
The Government’s New Zealand Upgrade Programme (NZUP) has been in limbo while the NZTA has been doing project baseline cost analysis. The results were released...
Last piece of Auckland’s SCI project finished
The Southern Path connecting communities along the Southern Motorway and built by CPB Contractors opened May 24, 2021. This specific project was designed to provide...
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...
Paving the way for new aircraft
In a contract with the Ministry of Defence, Fulton Hogan and two other contractors are involved in ripping up an old taxiway, recycling the concrete...
World first for Westport water woes
In 2018 Westport had a problem. A collapsed supply tunnel meant the northern West Coast town of about 4600 people was having to constantly pump...