Author Archives: Andrew Allison

Shared Path Opening Marks Lose Of NCI Project

2 May 2023 It was appropriate a shared path should be the final step of the multi-pronged Northern Corridor Improvements (NCI) project – the five-year project having been a shared venture between Fulton Hogan, HEB Construction, WSP and Jacobs, working in alliance on behalf of Waka Kotahi. NCI included a 5km extension of the Northern […]

Fulton Hogan Nelson, Central Otago Dig Hybrid

27 April 2023 Fulton Hogan Nelson and Central Otago quarries have each taken delivery of hybrid Volvo excavators – the second and third such machines to join Fulton Hogan since the country’s first hybrid excavator arrived at Stevenson’s Drury Quarry in September 2022. The two new Volvo EC300EL excavators employ the same technology as Drury’s […]

Fulton Hogan Partners With Govt To Lower Asphalt Carbon Emissions

20 April 2023 We’re pleased to be teaming up with the government to help reduce carbon emissions from asphalt making. A $215,000 partial co-funding grant announced today through the Government’s Decarbonising Industry (GIDI) Process Heat Contestable Fund will help retrofit Fulton Hogan’s Miners Road asphalt plant with a foaming bitumen bar. This enables warm-mix rather […]

Key Milestone On Redoubt Reservoir Project

​22 November 2022: The Redoubt Reservoir project on behalf of Watercare in Auckland has achieved a milestone; the first of four floor slab pours for the new reservoir. The 8,200m2 was poured in four sections at night, mitigating the risk of the concrete drying too quickly during the heat of the day, and avoiding peak […]

Kelly Recognised As An Emerging Director

28 October 2022: We’re proud to have amongst us the inaugural winner of IPWEA’s Emerging Governance Scholarship. Fulton Hogan’s National Manager, Establishment and Performance, Kelly Churchill, won the scholarship and $10K training with the Institute of Directors at IPWEA’s annual conference and awards in Christchurch. She is shown here with IPWEA Chief Executive Murray Pugh […]

BIM Technology Helps Visualise The Future, Now

18 October 2022 Fulton Hogan’s National Manager for Digital Engineering and Innovation, Chloe Smith, looks at how building information modelling (BIM) is bringing bigger benefits than many recognise. * * * * Experiencing the future was once the realm of science fiction. New digital technologies and information modelling approaches, however, are beginning to make it […]

Fulton Hogan Pilots Largest Volvo Hybrid Excavator

23 August 2022: Fulton Hogan subsidiary Stevenson Aggregates has taken the keys of the first Volvo EC480EL hybrid excavator to be used commercially in the world, and its experience will be part of Volvo’s assessment of the product. Volvo’s New Zealand distributor, TDX, says Fulton Hogan is a good test bed for technology aimed at […]

Soldiers See Action On Te Ahu A Turanga

17 August 2022: We’re pleased to have members of the NZ Defence Force (NZDF)’s 2nd Engineer Regiment on secondment on the Te Ahu a Turanga: Manawatū Tararua Highway Project. Shown here are Defence Force engineers Ryan Hay, Jared Greenfield and Kieran Cropp on earthmoving equipment they’re using as part of a training programme, following the […]

Fulton Hogan Looks To Future At LGNZ Conference

9 August 2022: Fulton Hogan’s message at this year’s Local Government NZ (LGNZ) conference in Palmerston North was hard to mistake. With the conference theme Te Wā Heke Mai (The Future), the flooring of the Fulton Hogan stand was recycled road cones, the carbon dashboards were displayed publicly for the first time and New Zealand […]

Putting Pen To Paper On Penlink

16 June 2022: At the signing (L to R): Mark Evans, HEB Construction; Marja Lubeck, MP Kaipara ki Mahurangi; Doug Johnson, Tonkin + Taylor, Brett Gliddon, Waka Kotahi; Hon Michael Wood; Michael Baker, Ngaati Whanaunga; Tracey Ryan, Aurecon; Ben Hayward, Fulton Hogan; Te Warena Taua, Te Kawerau ā Maki; and Mook Hohneck, Ngāti Manuhiri The […]