15 December 2021: Auckland Transport and Fulton Hogan teams have celebrated the completion of the 210 metre-long busway bridge over the Tamaki River in East Auckland. Buses will shortly be carrying passengers over the bridge, following completion of the driver familiarisation/training programme on the new Eastern Busway pre-Christmas. With two bus lanes, a cycleway and […]
7 December 2021 The second Infrastructure Skills Centre pilot course has been successfully completed. A partnership between Fulton Hogan, Ministry of Social Development, Civil Contractors New Zealand and the Construction Sector Accord, the course was held in Manawatū, following the first course in Christchurch in July and August. The second course was originally scheduled for […]
6 December 2021: After 18 months of technical assessment and detailed design, the Fulton Hogan/HEB JV has been awarded the construction contract for the Western Bay of Plenty’s Takitimu North Link. This is an artist’s impression of an overbridge interchange – a collection of three bridges acting as on and off ramps on the 6.8km […]
11 November 2021 After pioneering the use of a truck capable of running on 100 percent GreenFuels® biodiesel, the next step is hydrogen. In late 2022 Fulton Hogan will have a 600HP 58 tonne hydrogen-powered GCM bitumen carrier on the Tauranga- Auckland route. Emitting only water vapour, it will prevent approximately a tonne of CO2 […]
In a quirk of fate, the Eastern Busway Bridge over the Tamaki River in East Auckland opened this month on the same day the first bridge across the river opened, 156 years earlier. The 2021 and 1865 bridges also share considerable ingenuity in their construction. The first had an ingenious 12 metre swinging span that […]
The world’s most valuable company is using Fulton Hogan’s experience with iOS-based apps to showcase their benefits globally. Apple Inc’s ‘Apple at Work’ website shows companies that have transformed business practices using iPhone and iPad apps, including Fulton Hogan. https://www.apple.com/business/success-stories/construction/ Group Chief Information Officer Brian Northern says the key to the apps’ success has been […]
In early October 2021, the Waimea Dam team completed 100 hours of multiple back-to-back concrete pours on the dam’s spillway. This nine-shift, 24-hours-a-day marathon was followed shortly after by a 600 cubic metre pour on the spillway’s ‘flip bucket’. The flip bucket, shown here, is designed to reduce the velocity (hence friction) of water on […]
A little driverless vehicle has been cruising two Christchurch motorways, making it safer and faster for our road crews. The Tiny Robot line marker travels at 4km/h for up to eight hours a day, automatically marking points and lines ready for the line marker, without stopping for lunch. Tiny Robot has proven itself on the […]
A relationship formed in mid-1996 has led to Fulton Hogan becoming the leader in variable application telescopic bitumen sprayers for the past quarter of a century. Fulton Hogan’s Engineering Projects Manager Darryl Evans (pictured left) and NZ Mechanical Engineer Richard Shaw (far right) were involved at the start, and are still refining a system widely […]
Pictured: Participant Maporika Tahapeehi chats with Fulton Hogan NZ Chief Executive Graeme Johnson at the Fulton Hogan Canterbury Laboratory, where the Christchurch course is centred. This week the Infrastructure Skills Centre pilot goes live. Developed by Fulton Hogan, the Ministry of Social Development, Civil Contractors New Zealand and the Construction Accord with the support of […]