13 May 2025:

For a company known for the scale of its projects we were delighted our smaller projects were to the fore at the 2025 IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia) Awards in Auckland.

Fulton Hogan won three categories – for Projects $0 – $2M and $2M – $5M and for Excellence in Road Safety.

The $0 – $2M category was won by Fulton Hogan’s Wairarapa team who, on behalf of Masterton District Council, addressed multiple road washouts and damage to bridge foundations in Eastern Wairarapa using the Ecoreef® (www.ecoreef.co.nz) system. The images below show the interlocking honeycomb-shaped system being installed in different parts of the $1.9M project.

The $2M – $5M category was won by the $2.5M Devonport Town Centre Safety Upgrade project for Auckland Transport, with engineering support from Beca. This involved improvements to nine pedestrian crossings, including seven speed tables and two pedestrian crossings with refuge islands, a bus pad upgrade, lighting upgrades, line marking changes, kerb buildouts, traffic islands and a separated cycleway.

The team is shown receiving their award. From Left: Murray Simon (AT), Adam Holt (Beca), Girish Neelapu (AT), Andrew Garratt (AT), Veenay Rambisheswar (AT), Kevin Xiao (AT), Ben Lin (Fulton Hogan), Daniel Tat (Fulton Hogan), Hemant Rohit (AT), Tanji Ahsan (Fulton Hogan), Michael Brown (AT), Ryan Simon (Fulton Hogan).

Fulton Hogan’s other winner was the Moncks Bay section of the Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway for Excellence in Road Safety, on behalf of Christchurch City Council.

Congratulations, too, to our four other finalists: Christchurch City Council’s Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway (Excellence in Environment and Sustainability); Chatham Islands Maintenance (Excellence in Asset Management), Civil division’s Wanaka Wastewater Treatment Plant upgrade for Queenstown Lakes District Council (Excellence in Water Projects) and the Marlborough Civil team’s Awatere Bridge Project for Marlborough’s Whale Trail Trust (Innovation category).