1 March 2024: The Waimea Community Dam has had its final concrete pour – a 91m3, five-and-a-half hour effort this week, involving 10 concrete trucks. The pre-dawn concrete pour created a mass block and end wall for the valves that control the water flow from the dam’s reservoir – Te Kurawai o Pūhanga – into […]
27 February 2024: The newly opened Kāeo Bridge shows it can take a community to raise a bridge. In addition to the community created on site by way of the 50/50 JV between Fulton Hogan Civil and Fulton Hogan Northland, the project involved the community in various other ways. This included local schools propagating and […]
20 February 2024: There’s good reason for the smiles on the faces of Dan Parkes (left) and Brian Robertson. And it’s not just that they are about to click over 50 years, jointly, with Fulton Hogan. The $605 million Takitimu North Link (TNL) project, where they’re construction manager and project director, respectively, is full steam […]
8 February 2024: Pre-casting is changing the game in speed table construction. This pre-cast speed table, installed for Auckland Transport in Kumeu by Fulton Hogan’s pre-cast team, Stevenson Concrete, Fulton Hogan Minor Construction and Coastline Markers, took a single overnight shift to install. This compares with the two weeks typically required for traditional in situ […]
14 December 2023: Fulton Hogan’s Reliable Way asphalt recycling plant in Auckland is trialling a pre-production version of a 20-tonne (3.5m3 bucket) fully electrically powered Volvo loader. Working with Volvo distributor, TDX, the team is gathering data on charge times, load capacity, efficiency, work scheduling and the technical support required. The findings will assist Volvo […]
13 December 2023: We’re proud of the amazing things our young graduates achieve. In late November, Canterbury Projects Environment Advisor Parampara Koirala spoke at the Environmental Institute of Australia and NZ (EIANZ)’s Resilience, Recovery and Restoration – Transport Ecology in a Changing World conference on her work on the environmentally sensitive Coastal Pathway project in Christchurch. […]
11 December 2023: For Fulton Hogan Antarctic team member, Cody Shultz, the thrill of going to Antarctica began before taking off from Christchurch Airport. It was his first flight on an aeroplane. “You have to say that’s pretty cool; your first plane trip and it takes you to the ice,” Cody says. “This has been […]
27 November 2023: Fulton Hogan’s application of technology to help field forces meet communities’ water needs has been recognised with an international award. Shown here is Christchurch-based Integration Architect, Ankur Shrivastava (centre), receiving the Social Impact Award at the Australia/New Zealand Boomi APJ 2023 Customer Innovation Awards. Fulton Hogan was singled out from 25 other […]
2 November 2023: One of the final touches on the five-year Northern Corridor Improvements (NCI) project has also proved to be one of the more dramatic. A 30 shift (six week) project was completed in just 10 shifts by using three paving crews – running a milling, membrane and paving operation in parallel – to […]
24 October 2023: A cycle and walking path across the historic Awatere Bridge will extend the Whale Trail from Blenheim to Seddon by Christmas. Fulton Hogan is converting the 100-year-old rail and vehicle bridge just north of Seddon to a combined rail and cycleway/walkway, on behalf of the Whale Trail Trust. It is another milestone […]