A day at Christchurch’s Avon-Heathcote Estuary
Repairing and widening the roads around Christchurch’s iconic Avon-Heathcote Estuary posed many interesting challenges, not all of them anticipated, as CHRIS MACANN explains. FOR MANY,...
Category : Project
Kapiti’s Expressway forges ahead
Construction of the $630 million, four-lane Kapiti Expressway is forging ahead and despite technical challenges and a very wet winter contractors are rejoicing over progress....
Home and Dry – a complex haulage exercise
Careful planning and management were key to a complex project that saw Global Transport bring 5000 cubic metres of drying equipment to New Zealand...
Keeping The Waters At Bay – Rangitaiki Floodway Scheme
Stage by stage, a vital protection scheme is progressing to combat floods that have periodically devastated areas of the eastern Bay of Plenty for more than...
Making good State Highway 58
An upgrading and widening programme on State Highway 58, which began in February, is being done in various stages. Costing $25 million, the first stage...
Waikato Expressway’s Karapiro Gully bridge- Simple yet Unique
Alan Titchall visits the construction site of the highest bridge and longest bridge built on the new Waikato Expressway near Cambridge, and the first in...
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...
East West Connections – Another roading project looms
As the government tips millions of dollars into Auckland’s transport infrastructure the green light for the controversial East West Connections is getting closer as the...
Night Moves
To prevent disrupting flights in and out of Gisborne, a specialist team from Downer recently resealed the town’s runway in sections, over 14 nights, while...
Christchurch soldiers on
Construction activity in Christchurch may well have plateaued, but rumours of the demise of the earthquake-induced construction boom have been greatly exaggerated, says HUGH DE...