Author Archives: Andrew Allison

AMETI Project Stars On TVNZ’s Seven Sharp

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2625287374451193 On Tuesday 24 November, TVNZ’s Seven Sharp featured the AMETI Eastern Busway Stage 1 in Panmure and Pakuranga, Auckland we’re building on behalf of Auckland Transport. Here’s the result, featuring star-of-the-show – project engineer and lead engineer for the Bridge Superstructure, Simone Myburgh, bridge supervisor Tony Pemberton  and project manager James Weller. The bridge […]

Wakatipu Transport Project Alliance Announced

New Queenstown consortium to deliver infrastructure upgrades Fulton Hogan is teaming up with Beca, Downer and WSP to deliver major transport developments in Queenstown, beginning before Christmas. The Alliance team is known as QR3 – the three ‘R’s being for Response, Recovery and Revitalisation. It’s officially The Wakatipu Transport Programme Alliance. On behalf of the […]

Fulton Hogan Shines In Australasian Fleet Safety Awards

Road Safety Week has concluded with further recognition of Fulton Hogan’s growing contribution to road safety. Last night (Thursday 19 November) Fulton Hogan won two awards in the Australasian Fleet Champions Awards, including the premiere award. Dr Bryan Pidwerbesky was honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Road Safety award, recognising more than 30 years designing […]

Edendale Realignment Win CCNZ Award

The CCNZ Southland 5th annual Construction Awards were held in October. The Southland team entered the Edendale Realignment project in the projects over $300,000 category. Much to the delight of the project manager, Dave Connell, the team picked up the award. This Edendale Realignment was a high profile contract and one of the largest highway […]

Katarapko Floodplain Inundation Measures (FIM) Wins Major Construction Award

Congratulations to the Department for Environment and Water (DEW), SA Water and Fulton Hogan for winning the CCF Earth Award (SA) ($30M – $75M category) for the Katarapko Floodplain Inundation Measures (FIM) project. The Katarapko FIM project is a priority floodplain and Basin Plan Key Environment Asset (KEA) important for the environmental health and resilience […]

NOC Contracts Knock It Out Of The Park

This year has seen a fundamental shift in our Network Outcome Contract (NOC) performance. For the first time, Fulton Hogan has achieved six “outstanding” results across our NOC contracts, placing us top six overall. This includes Northland, Wellington, West Waikato North, Nelson, West Coast, and Central Otago. In 2020, we submitted six “outstandings” and, while […]

Kicking Goals To Encourage More Women In Construction

If there’s one thing Iilish Ross believes you need to be an elite athlete, it’s the feeling of certainty. The rising AFLW halfback said it’s difficult to play your best when you’re worried how you will pay next week’s rent. So, when statistics revealed that employment for women would be the hardest hit by the […]

Bottling Innovation

Halting the exports of recycling waste is having a mountainous impact, with growing piles of bottles looking for a home across Australia. With this problem, though, comes an opportunity. “People have been frantically trying to solve this problem, and one of the obvious solutions is to recycle glass back to what it was originally – […]

Where There’s Muck There’s Class

Fulton Hogan’s East Coast SQTE advisor Kylee Martin devised the Worksite Waste Challenge for her East Coast team– a challenge to staff to make something useful out of waste from the yard. The winning entry was by the drainage team, using old pipes to create ‘Fountain‘. Fountain comes complete with a water pump, causing water […]

Another Milestone For Fulton Hogan’s WestConnex Operation And Maintenance Contract – Sydney

July 5 2020 marked another milestone for Fulton Hogan Egis O&M Pty Ltd (FHEO&M) on Australia’s largest road infrastructure project – Sydney’s WestConnex. With the opening of WestConnex Stage 2, the M8, the operations and maintenance contract and incident response services on Sydney’s brand-new motorway tunnel officially began. The 9km twin tunnels connecting the M5 […]