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...
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New Zealand’s most challenging NOC
Fulton Hogan‘s West Coast Network Outcomes Contract (NOC) for the NZTA started in September 2015 as a collaborative partnership between five West Coast companies on...
Balancing our infrastructure upgrade
by Drew Padgett
By Peter Silcock, Chief Executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand. Many of you will have breathed a sigh of relief at the announcement of a series...
End in sight for Kaikoura recovery
The rebuild of the transport networks following the Kaikoura 7.8 magnitude earthquake in November 2016 is nearing an end. The NZTA, KiwiRail and the North...
Expressway build milestones
Construction of the Peka Peka to Otaki Expressway has reached a number of significant milestones over the past six months. Richard Silcock checks them out....
From the rugby field to Downer’s management
After a promising career as a professional rugby player, Craig West hung up his boots and re-joined his former employer, Downer NZ in 2009 and...
Replacing old bridges
The old narrow concrete bridges over the Manawatu River and surrounding floodplain just south of Foxton on SH1 are both being replaced at a cost...
Northland bridges finally underway
Northland is experiencing its largest ever programme of work on its State Highways. Among the numerous projects the Transport Agency has underway in the region,...
NZTA’s new way forward
Fergus Gammie, chief executive of the NZTA, spoke to delegates at the 2019 CCNZ conference about the new direction of the agency and the start...
Are wire rope barriers – barriers to oversize?
By JONATHAN BHANA-THOMSON, CEO, NZ HEAVY HAULAGE ASSOCIATION Wire rope median barriers have an excellent record for reducing head-on accidents in black-spot areas, however the requirements...