8 May 2024: Applying the ‘many hands make light work’ principle, Wellington Transport Alliance (WTA) is beginning to install electronic road surface monitoring cameras on vehicles other than specialist surveillance vehicles. WTA is an alliance of Waka Kotahi, Fulton Hogan and WSP, and maintains the state highways and roading networks of the Greater Wellington region. […]
2 May 2024: It’s a big year for Fulton Hogan and bridges in the 2024 Āpōpō Awards! Three bridges – the Taparahi Slip remediation project’s 124m steel/composite bridge across SH25A Coromandel Kopu Hikuai Road (pictured), the Redclyffe temporary bridge in Hawke’s Bay and the Kāeo Bridge Upgrade are all finalists. SH25A was entered jointly with […]
17 April 2024: Nature plays a few tricks on the wild, windswept south coast of the North Island. Fortunately, Fulton Hogan Operator/Foreman Jaden Field has a few tricks of his own. Jaden (right) has been working with Ecoreef® inventor and developer, Agmar Tool’s Fred Waiker (left), to pioneer the use of hexagonal (honeycomb shaped) concrete […]
15 April 2024: Fulton Hogan’s Civil division and the Southland team have combined to install ’Archimedes’ screw pumps to protect migratory fish and the people of Invercargill. Turning at 16 rpm and pumping 1.5m3 of water per second each, the two Finnish-built screws have no impellers, making it safer for fish like shortfin and longfin […]
28 March 2024: The first of Fulton Hogan’s four new Marini 2500 batch asphalt plants has been commissioned in the Waikato, as part of a major enhancement of the company’s asphalt production technology and capability across New Zealand. Producing up to 200 tonnes per hour, the new plant has almost three times the capacity of […]
26 March 2024: Fulton Hogan’s Civil division’s expansion of Wānaka’s wastewater treatment plant has helped ease the region’s growing pains. Involving heavy civil, mechanical, electrical and process works within live operations on one of Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC)’s critical water assets, the expanded plant is designed to meet 30 years of projected population growth […]
22 March 2024: Fulton Hogan subsidiary Stevenson Aggregates was centre stage at the NZ Women in Extractives Awards held in Hamilton on Wednesday (20 March 2024). Special mention goes to Stevenson’s Environmental Compliance Manager Tara Edwards-Tusa (pictured left) for winning the Kristy Christensen Memorial Award for championing diversity. As well as environmental compliance, Tara is […]
21 March 2024: Fulton Hogan’s Infrastructure Skills Centre (ISC) has taken a fresh new step. Three years after the company launched the ISC to introduce industry newcomers to the opportunities in infrastructure, a programme has been added for existing staff who are new to the water sector. Eight staff from Dunedin, Invercargill, Alexandra and Christchurch […]
20 March 2024: If you like your ice cream scooped by a 13-tonne digger, there’s no one better to serve it than Fulton Hogan’s Michael Brown. In his first attempt at the Civil Contractors New Zealand CablePrice National Excavator Operator Competition, Michael won the coveted ice cream scooping competition on his way to second place […]
19 March 2024: You know the future’s in good hands with people like Jessie Jacobs in our industry. Fulton Hogan Civil’s Health & Safety Manager- Central North Island, has won the Young Future Leader award at the 2024 Site Safe Health, Safety and Wellbeing Awards in Auckland. Here’s what the judges had to say about […]