Bitumen – the move to emulsion
Bitumen is predominantly used for our road surfacing, featuring a mix of chipseal on lower-volume roads and asphalt on high-traffic roads; used as hot mix,...
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O2NL on a fast track
Image: A Goodman’s CAT 374F excavator shifting tonnes of soil at a time near a residential area – near the alignment. After 12 years of...
A new way to do Temporary Traffic Management
By Brett Gliddon Group General Manager, Transport Services. Every day people go to work on our roads and people drive through those work sites, and...
Stepping up to the challenge
Above: Ethan photographed at the 2020 Water New Zealand Association Conference in Hamilton. Ethan Keith’s life has been a bit of a rollercoaster ride, from...
Making plastic pavements
Using waste materials for road paving may not be unheard of, but a recent combination of minds has seen the use of waste plastic trialled...
Rai Saddle realignment
A key risk-spot on SH6 between Blenheim and Nelson has undergone a challenging realignment. Hugh de Lacy reports. NO FEWER THAN 20 people have died...
A milestone for contracting
The re-opening of SH1 between Christchurch and Picton on December 15, 2017, albeit only during daylight hours, was a PR coup for the South Island...
Mountainous moves
Transporting massive concrete bridge beams over the precipitous Arthur’s Pass during the past winter has been a challenging project – and an eye-catching one too,...
Solving pavement water damage
by Vijay Naidu
New research is looking for affordable methods of waterproofing our road surfaces.
RICHARD SILCOCK explains a four-year research project in progress. WITH ROAD FREIGHT volumes...
Underground tactics: City Rail Link update – Contract 2
The Connectus JV team is delivering Contract 2 for City Rail Link, which represents about 10 percent of the 3.45 kilometre length of the twin-tunnel...