The 27-kilometre, $850 million Transmission Gully Motorway (TGM) is expected to open next year following five years of extensive construction. At 230-metre long and 24.5-metres wide, the Cannons Creek Bridge is by far the longest bridge to be constructed along this new motorway. This selection of photos includes a number of progress shots from the…
We have some great visuals from the Northern Corridor Improvements programme, which features in October’s issue.
New images released by London’s new Crossrail underground highlight construction progress across the route to deliver the city’s newest railway, the Elizabeth line. Construction of the Elizabeth line has entered its final stages with fit-out of the new Elizabeth line stations and tunnels advanced with intensive work underway. From the summer, Crossrail will begin handing…
Time for some visuals from Huntly, where bulk earthworks around Taupiri Pass have slowed down with the arrival of Winter. Kade Croft from Geotechnics Ltd paid a site visit to Huntly Bypass last week.
Three big Hitachi Zaxis excavators at work – a 480, 450 and 200 – demolishing a 21-year-old, multi-level Auckland apartment building on Mt Eden Road Auckland to make way for the new Mt Eden Railway Station on the city’s $3.4 billion City Rail Link. The 11 apartments cost the council $7.8 miliion to buy all…
The teeth of a pre-European ceremonial wooden comb, a heru, have been discovered during earthworks on the Huntly section of the Waikato Expressway. A machine operator uncovered an old midden site with an excavator. He realised the significance of the find and stopped work immediately to allow time for Kaiarahi Kawe Nikora to contact the…
Things at Transmission Gully are going smoothly. There are over 300 machines working on the site during the season. What better way to check progress than through the picture album? Here are some recent images from the construction zone(s).
