Capacity for extra lanes on a pair of Christchurch motorway bridges was built into the original structures, but the passage of time has complicated the job. Hugh de Lacy reports.
The necessary headstocks jutting out from the piers are there from when the twin motorway bridges were first built over the Waimakariri River north of...
Controlling rock fall from Nevis Bluff alongside SH6 is a highly specialised undertaking and requires constant monitoring to ensure the highway is not blocked by slips. Richard Silcock reviews how this is being done.
The 140-metre high, 880-metre wide Nevis Bluff is a geographical landmark bordering SH6 midway between Cromwell and...
Tossing aside a career behind a desk for one behind the controls of a big digger, Shannan Bell is thriving in the male-dominated civil construction industry. By Mary Searle Bell.
Shannan Bell has become a bit of a poster girl for women in the construction industry. The attractive brunette has more than proved her worth as an operator of...
Richard Silcock talks with Graeme Johnson, Fulton Hogan’s chief for New Zealand, who has been with the company since 2003.
At 37 years of age, Graeme Johnson heads the New Zealand operation of privately-owned contracting company Fulton Hogan, a position he has held since the beginning of last year following a period as chief...
A $100 million contract was signed with Fulton Hogan for stage one of the AMETI Eastern Busway between Panmure and Pakuranga in East Auckland.
The project is separated into four stages: Panmure to Pakuranga (stage 1); Pakuranga Town Centre and Reeves Flyover (stage 2); Pakuranga to Botany Busway (stage 3); and a new interchange at...
It says something for the growth of our dairy industry that they’ve had to build a new road round the original Edendale factory, and this roading project is the biggest in the Southland region for many years. Hugh de Lacy checks it out.
A herd of 300 cows was the basis for the country’s first dairy factory, at Edendale, 40...
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 the Northern Corridor Improvements (NCI) programme this transport package will, when completed in four years’ time, extend SH18, provide additional busway facilities, introduce a...
This is a precis of a presentation by Domenic De-Fazio, chief executive officer, New Zealand Construction, Fulton Hogan, at the Infrastructure NZ Building Nations Symposium 2017.
FOUR MONTHS INTO my new role as chief executive for Fulton Hogan’s construction business here in New Zealand, as we discuss the pipeline of work ahead of us,...
Whatever it meant to the people of Kaikoura and North Canterbury, the re-opening of SH1 between Christchurch and Picton on December 15, 2017, albeit only during daylight hours, was a public relations coup for the entire South Island civil contracting industry. Hugh de Lacy explains.
A busload of workers and contractors being taken back...
Since its inception in 1936, Christchurch International Airport has been an unfinished project in terms of ongoing development. Richard Silcock traces the history and recent expansion of this piece of regional infrastructure – our second busiest airport.
DURING THE EARLY to mid-1930s, with the increasing interest in aviation by the...
