The diversion outlet of the Waimea Community Dam is due to be completed in August, allowing work to begin on the dam’s embankment in September. The first major dam project in New Zealand in more than 25 years, it is being built by Fulton Hogan and Taylors Contracting for Tasman District Council and Waimea Irrigators […]
Among the scrub being cleared along State Highway 20B for the State Highway 20B Early Improvements project stood three ‘New Zealand’s Christmas trees’. Fulton Hogan’s Zone Manager on the project, Tim Toomey, says he was reconciling himself to the 30-year-old pohutakawa meeting their fate at the teeth of a chainsaw when it was discovered a […]
With nearly a quarter of a million cubic metres of bulk fill compaction along the shores of the Otago Harbour, the Portobello Road team is welcoming New Zealand’s first construction roller with a factory built twin plate compactor attached to the back. The German-made Hamm H13i t increases operator safety along the shoulder, while boosting […]
On Friday 19 June the first sod was officially turned on the Nowra Bridge Project. Fulton Hogan and Transport for NSW representatives were joined by NSW Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Paul Toole MP, Assistant Minister to the Deputy Prime Minister Kevin Hogan MP, Member for Kiama Gareth Ward MP and Member for South […]
Fulton Hogan is using New Zealand’s largest indoor stadium to test its road marking vehicles. This week five road markers from three regions – Southland, Central Otago and Dunedin – lined up at Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium for the “T8” registration that’s required annually by Waka Kotahi the New Zealand Transport Agency. Together these vehicles […]
Zoey at the wheel before the first ever lesson on the new driver training course. Behind, from left, are Superintendent John Price, driving instructor Alister Cresswell, Nga Maata Waka general manager Carmen Hammond, driving school team leader Caroline Elliott , Te Runanga o Nga Mata Waaka CEO Norm Dewes and Fulton Hogan’s Michael Fulton. […]
People say the East Coast of the North Island is a world of its own. Little surprise, then, that the Fulton Hogan team there should go a little ‘out of this world’ from time to time. This image of the road to the tip of Mahia Peninsula, just resealed by Fulton Hogan, is taken from an altitude […]
After 18 months of temporary works design and detailed planning it was a day to remember for the AMETI team yesterday with the first of four bridge launches completed. There are four launch phases to reach the western abutment on the Panmure side of the Tamaki River. The result will be a 205m long bridge […]
For the team maintaining the critical SH2 link between Wellington and Wairarapa there’s some irony in the name Remutaka Hill. In te Reo ‘Remutaka’ means ‘sitting down to rest’. For the team, part of the Capital Journeys® road maintenance JV with WSP, there was no sitting down or resting as they packed five nights work […]
Fulton Hogan is among a group of businesses in South Canterbury whose training initiative has received $600,000 in Provincial Growth Fund support. The training course is the NZQA-approved Certificate in Commercial Road Transport (Heavy Vehicle Operation) and is based at Ara Institute’s Timaru campus. Fulton Hogan has already contributed a driving simulator, hands-on driver training […]