Tag : earthworks

Roading

Highest bridge required biggest dig

Jonathan Whittaker
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....
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Engaging with the environment at Taupiri

Gill Prentice
The Huntly section of the Transport Agency’s Waikato Expressway project had a couple of interesting challenges that have been overcome with great success. Engagement with...
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Working the dream

Gill Prentice
When your childhood passion is making things, the choice between following your father into a career in accountancy, or opting for an engineering degree is...
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Fijian assignment

Gill Prentice
Contracting company, Higgins, has been involved in infrastructure projects in Fiji for the past four years. Currently, it is involved in upgrading a section of...
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Stretching motorway bottlenecks

Contrafed PUblishing
This article first appeared in Contractor March 2017. A $268 million project in Auckland will address severe congestion issues plaguing the Southern Motorway that creates...