Author Archives: Andrew Allison

Tairāwhiti Bailey Bridge Goes To New Lengths

19 October 2023: Fulton Hogan East Coast and Fulton Hogan Civil have helped to install what could be the longest-span bailey bridge in New Zealand – 71m long, with a 42m central section, and weighing 124 tonnes. Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz is pictured here with little locals at its official opening, along with Fulton Hogan’s […]

Fulton Hogan Targets Predator Corridors

12 October 2023 Fulton Hogan’s Waikato NOC team is working with Predator Free NZ and Waka Kotahi on a six-month trial trapping rats, stoats, ferrets, weasels and possums on a gully under the new Hamilton Bypass section of the Waikato Expressway. The Mangaharakeke Stream gully is a corridor for pests to and from the Hamilton […]

SH6 Hat Trick A Highlight Of CCNZ Awards

7 September 2023: A hat trick can be as rare in civil construction as in cricket. At Friday’s CCNZ National Awards, the SH6 remediation project team pulled off this feat when they won the $5 to $20 million project category, following their big wins at Engineering NZ’s ENVIs and the IPWEA NZ Asset Management Excellence […]

McDowell Name Immortalised At Roydon Quarry

28 August 2023: Among the many families that make up this family company, the name ‘McDowell’ has a special place. So much so, we have named a road after Allan – the veteran of quarrying in Canterbury, father of current Chief Operating Officer Construction, Justin, and grandfather of new recruit, William. McDowell Drive is the […]

Fulton Hogan Lab Staff Lauded Nationally

24 August 2023: Fulton Hogan Laboratory team members at our Canterbury and Manawatū Labs have been recognised for their outstanding work in the 2023 CETANZ (Civil Engineering Testing Association of New Zealand) awards. Shown after the awards in Hamilton is Field Testing Supervisor, Ahurei Manukau-Papa; Canterbury Lab Business Development Manager, Steven Franc; Manawatū Lab Technician, […]

Opportunities Abound For Apprentices

15 August 2023: Cam Campbell has already worked on four big projects in four regions …. and he’s only just finished his civil carpentry apprenticeship. Perhaps not surprisingly, then, ConcreteNZ gave Cam a Highly Commended in the apprenticeship category of their 2023 national awards earlier this month. Cam’s apprenticeship began on Fonterra’s Whareroa WTP, and […]

Further Major Win For SH6 Project

2 August 2023: Shortly after winning a 2023 National IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia) Excellence in Asset Management Award, Fulton Hogan’s SH6 rebuild project has won another major national award. The Tasman Journeys and Marlborough NOC team has won Engineering NZ’s ENVI Project Innovation Award for achieving, in a seven-week road closure, what […]

Turning The Table On Speed

3 July 2023 Speed tables are one of the fastest growing ways of getting people to slow down. But while there’s major demand for them, they require often extensive traffic management during installation, as well as curing time. Fulton Hogan is addressing this by developing pre-cast modular speed tables, for which a patent is pending. […]

Two Major IPWEA Wins For Fulton Hogan

26 June 2023 Two Fulton Hogan projects from the Nelson region – the reinstatement of SH6 (pictured) and the environmental planning and management of the Challies Quarry and Wetland – have won 2023 National IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia) Excellence in Asset Management Awards. Chief Executive Ben Hayward says the teams on SH6 […]

From Aggregate Extraction To Wetland

18 May 2023: Fulton Hogan has transformed the two hectare LINZ gravel extraction site on the banks of the Motueka River into a wetland. The experience at the site – where 25,000 tonnes of gravel was extracted over the last 18 months – will be valuable for the larger (21 ha) Challies site adjacent to […]