Fulton Hogan has won a top award for its rebuild of the Kererū Gorge culvert. Photo / HDC
Fulton Hogan has won a top award for its rebuild of the Kererū Gorge culvert. Photo / HDC
A major culvert rebuild in Hawke’s Bay has won a top construction award.
The Kererū Gorge culvert rebuild was completed and opened earlier this year, putting an end to a long detour for the rural Kererū community west of Hastings.
It was one of 19 bridges or large culverts destroyedin Cyclone Gabrielle across the Hastings district.
Earlier this month, that rebuild project led by Fulton Hogan took out the supreme award at the Civil Contractors NZ Hawke’s Bay East Coast Branch Construction Awards.
Faced with remote terrain, the project included Fulton Hogan’s team constructing a 15m-wide arch culvert.
The project also won the award for projects valued over $10 million, with judges Greg Lumsden and Richard Jardine impressed by the “technical excellence, teamwork and community-focused infrastructure delivery under adversity”.
Napier-based firms get nod for steelwork
Two Napier-based structural steel specialists won awards at the recent 2025 Steel Construction New Zealand (SCNZ) Excellence in Steel Awards.
The relatively new Te Ara Pekapeka Bridge in Hamilton. Photo / Dave Murray
Local firms Eastbridge and Red Steel were recognised for their work on three separate projects, with Eastbridge honoured for bridges in Gisborne and Hamilton, and Red Steel for a cultural facility in Hawke’s Bay (the Hawke’s Bay Museum Research & Archives Centre in Hastings).
