19 December 2024: All six Fulton Hogan’s entries have made the finals of the 2025 IPWEA Aotearoa New Zealand Public Engineering Excellence Awards. Pictured is one of the six finalists, the Wairarapa Team’s use of Ecoreef pods in the post Gabrielle rebuild, on behalf of Masterton District Council. This includes the rare feat of a […]
2 December 2024: Three years after the Te Ahu a Turanga: Manawatū Tararua Highway project team laid the first pile on the Parahaki Bridge, they regrouped to mark the bridge’s structural completion. They are pictured here on the neighbouring Eco-Viaduct after a walkover on Parahaki Bridge, which is in the background. “It was a special […]
6 November 2024: The Te Mārua Water Treatment Plant Optimisation project for Wellington Water has reached a key milestone. The first of three DAF (dissolved air flotation) ‘trains’, which Fulton Hogan’s Wellington Civil team is delivering with the support of Civil’s inhouse mechanical and electrical department, was commissioned on 31 October. This will add 20 […]
5 November 2024: The second of Fulton Hogan’s four new Marini 2500 batch asphalt plants has been commissioned, a further step in advancing New Zealand’s asphalt capability and the sustainability of its production. Producing up to 200 tonnes per hour, the new plant in Drury increases capacity for the Auckland region and complements Fulton Hogan’s […]
4 November 2024: Fulton Hogan is working with Christchurch International Airport Ltd (CIAL) to help double the airport’s freight handling capacity. The Canterbury team has been awarded the contract to extend the airport’s freight apron with an additional 16,000m2 of concrete hardstands and 45,000m2 of structural pavement. The contract also includes installing 3 Waters infrastructure, […]
31 October 2024: Following a blessing, six months of preparatory work has started to enable a Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine to burrow a 1200mm pipe under much of Queen Street. The project, on behalf of Watercare Services, will reduce wet weather overflows into the Waitematā Harbour. Fulton Hogan’s Project Manager, Dominic Wakeland, says the preparatory […]
30 October 2024: Canterbury Project Manager, Richard Bruere, had been at Fulton Hogan for a few weeks when he decided to go back to school. In August, Richard joined Year 8 at Christchurch’s St Andrew’s College, part of the Fulton Hogan team that’s helping share the wonders of engineering through Engineering NZ’s Wonder Project (www.wonderproject.co.nz). […]
15 October 2024: Fulton Hogan is helping cyclists and truck drivers better understand and appreciate each other’s realities on the road. Working with road safety organisation ‘Share the Road’, the Canterbury team has set up cyclist ‘drop-ins’ on one of Christchurch’s major road projects – SH75 Halswell Road Improvements. A cyclist is pictured talking with […]
19 September 2024: Dozens of corporate team members have been in Christchurch’s Red Zone, planting swathes of native trees and plants on land that was previously housing. The volunteering was organised in conjunction with Conservation Volunteers https://conservationvolunteers.co.nz/. Team member Kate White says it was a bittersweet experience planting on land that was previously people’s gardens […]
27 August 2024: Our Southland Regional and Civil businesses have helped solve a major problem for Invercargill Airport and surrounding areas. Flooding. In mid-August the new $11M Stead Street pump station in Invercargill, built for Environment Southland, was officially opened by Associate Regional Development Minister Mark Patterson and regional mayors. Chief Operating Officer NZ Construction, […]