Last piece of Auckland’s SCI project finished
The Southern Path connecting communities along the Southern Motorway and built by CPB Contractors opened May 24, 2021. This specific project was designed to provide...
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Rotorua’s lakeside redevelopment
Rotorua City’s lakefront is undergoing a $40 million redevelopment that will provide an outstanding recreational facility for the benefit of the local community and tourists....
Purpose-built for cruise ships
Above: Reclamation and early construction work for the new cruise ship wharf, looking east towards the entrance to Lyttelton Harbour. Construction of this country’s only...
Bridging the Gully
Metre by metre, the longest bridge on the ‘greenfields’ Transmission Gully Motorway project north of Wellington is being incrementally launched across Cannons Creek. RICHARD SILCOCK...
More than a highway
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...
An exercise in logistics
A new cargo wharf and breakwater have recently been completed at Waitangi on the Chatham Islands. Logistics and the severe weather were some of the...
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...
Logistic overload
Restoring six SH1 bridges damaged in the Kaikoura quake involved a very complex heavy haulage programme to get over 100 concrete beams from the North...
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...
The day the trains started running
The massive Kaikoura earthquake largely spared population centres, but destroyed road and rail services. HUGH DE LACY tells how they got the trains running again...