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 broom sweeping through transport
The Transport Minister, Simeon Brown is rapidly sweeping away many of the cobwebs from the previous Government, and our association certainly welcomes the direction...
A risk-based TTM approach
Brett Gliddon, General Manager Transport Services at the NZ Transport Agency. It’s been an incredibly busy six months. While we wait for the final Government...
Transmission Gully taking shape
It’s just over two-years since enabling work and construction of Wellington’s Transmission Gully Motorway began and it is forging ahead despite the difficult terrain and...
Strengthening relationships
The year ahead promises to be one of challenges and opportunities for the NZ Transport Agency and the contracting industry, influenced by one significant government...
The making of Christchurch’s Western Corridor
There were a couple of complicating twists in what otherwise seemed like a simple four-laning of the middle of the three Christchurch Western Corridor projects....
Cones: There’s more to them than you’d think
Flowers in road cones have come to symbolise the Canterbury earthquake recovery, but they’ve a longer history than that. HUGH DE LACY delves. THEY’VE...