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October 2025

Retaining, fencing and mulching combine as we look down on the Kumeū 2 Bridge towards Huapai from just west of the Coopers Creek Vineyard.
The island at the entry to 601 SH16 gets a final top-up prior to sealing and planting.

September 2025

A road construction site with a truck and cars on a partially completed highway. Traffic cones and barriers are present. Clouds and trees in the background.
Lane widening near K2 Bridge gets close to completion.
A small hillside at night, covered with burlap for erosion control, features young green plants. A wooden fence stands in the background.
Completion works include new fencing and swale drains (these are broad and shallow planted channels designed to manage stormwater runoff) which capture and direct rain and groundwater while watering the new planting and filtering out pollutants.

August 2025

A milling machine removes and levels the ground so it’s ready for paving. The red light behind the machine defines the no access safety zone so crews are kept safe and away from harm.
We work hard to minimise disruption for our residents. When 2 big driveways needed to be cut back and reshaped to align with the newly widened highway, our team successfully completed the earthworks in just one night shift, excavating 508-tonnes of spoil and backfilling 50-tonnes of basecourse to the new design grade with a team of 4 people and 2 x 20-tonne excavators.

July 2025

A construction site featuring a road with orange cones and concrete slabs positioned along the edge.
Concrete kerbs are gradually extending along the south side of the highway and give an understanding of just how wide SH16 will be when works are complete.
Workers are constructing a road embankment, collaborating with heavy machinery and equipment on the site.
The road is being widened in a wet area. To the left a retaining wall has been built to form a solid edge, with a culvert to carry water underneath the road, and the rocks dissipate the energy of the water. The 20-tonne excavator is placing subgrade material on a grid base that will be built up and compacted to create a surface that will see 15,000 vehicles per day running over it from early next year.

June 2025

Twenty cubes of concrete lies quietly stitching the old and new structures together at Berry Bridge. Traffic was diverted away from the bridge for 12 hours so vibrations didn’t disrupt the concrete cure.
All hands on deck at Berry Bridge on SH16 as concrete is pumped between the two bridge decks to join them together in a process called `stitching’.

May 2025

Landscaping works: as we complete upgrading underground services the crew lay a combination of soil and mulch along the roadside berm.
Driveway works: once the road-widening and services works are complete, kerb and channel are installed and driveways are reinstated.

April 2025

A ‘dog leg’ joint was the best solution when we laid a new section of gas main. We needed to avoid moving or disrupting other underground services on the same alignment. Here we see the Vector gas welder carefully connecting the two lines.
A ‘dog leg’ joint was the best solution when we laid a new section of gas main. We needed to avoid moving or disrupting other underground services on the same alignment. Here we see the Vector gas welder carefully connecting the two lines.
Pouring concrete in unpredictable weather can be a challenge, but a little ingenuity helped to keep us on schedule at the SH16/Wintour Road intersection.
Pouring concrete in unpredictable weather can be a challenge, but a little ingenuity helped to keep us on schedule at the SH16/Wintour Road intersection.

March 2025

A considerable portion of the gas main along SH16 has needed diversion and this required significant lengths of open trenching in order to lower the welded pipe onto the bedding. This was achieved over multiple nights.
The surrounding streets behind Wintour Road house a community of Waimauku locals who enjoy walking. This new footpath, located at the western end of the site, is a welcome upgrade for bus stop and village shopping access.

February 2025

A Shear Vane is used to penetrate the colourful clay sub-base in this box cut trench. It is testing for ground strength prior to pavement (road) construction.
The Site Traffic Management Supervisor is responsible for keeping commuters, workers and neighbours safe – including checking the correct alignment of every cone across the approx. 3km site.

January 2025

Multiple services are ducted and secured above the Ahukuramu Stream at Berry Bridge as final preparations are made to open the new bridge extension to traffic.
This rocky drainage `blanket’ is part of the new turnaround bay sub-base design near Trigg Road. Turnaround bays will enable traffic to safely change direction when wire median barriers are installed in late 2025.

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