Project Car parks and access road up-grade

Client Department of Conservation

Completion Date April 2009

Consultant/Contact Mr. Murray Thomas
Dept of Conservation Ruakapuka Area Office 03 693 1014

Value of Work $20,000

Description Prepare car parks (2) at Mt Sunday and cover with compacted gravel. Reform Lake Clearwater access road and recover with compacted gravel

Relevance Roading project 

 

Project Slip remedial work Mt Lyford State Highway 70

Client Hurunui District Council – sub-contracted to Fulton Hogan Limited

Completion Date April 2009

Consultant/Contact Paul O’Meara, Fulton Hogan Ltd 03 349 7039

Value of Work $65,000

Description Excavate from Mason River and lay material in engineered fill.

Relevance Excavation from river and engineered fill 

 
Project Stanfields Stud Bangor Estate Developmemt

Client Stanfields Bushey Park Limited, Palmerston

Completion Date September 2008

Consultant/Contact Mr. Clive Jermy 03 465 1022

Value of Work $ 182,186

Description Developing races, deer shed site and car park and associated works including culvert installation

Relevance Site development work

Project Synlait Milk Limited – SH 1 & Heslerton Road Up-grade – sub-contract to Fulton Hogan Ltd

Client Synlait Milk Limited

Completion Date May 2008

Consultant/Contact Mr. Paul O’Meara – Fulton Hogan 027 285 2751
Mr. Chris Johnson – Opus International

Value of Work $ 200,000

Description Site clearing of trees, topsoil and rubbish including tip. Reinstate and form roadways and realigned railway embankment using material from borrow pit. Reform and shape landscape bund and re- topsoil.

Relevance Site development and roading to close tolerances

Project Logburn Road to Big River and Coal preparation Site
(Joint Venture with Rosco Contractors, Reefton)

Client Pike River Coal Company

Completion Date May 2007

Consultant/Contact Mr. Les McCracken – Engineer to Contract
0274 328926

Value of Work $ 4.0 m

Description Establishing access through bush, forming road including multiple culverts, supply and lay pavement materials, road sealing and finishing.
4.3 km road length plus coal preparation plant site works, transformer pad and site amenities

Relevance Large scale roading contract with environmental constraints.

Projects Stopbank up-grade Stages 2, 3 & 6 – Ashburton Town

Client Environment Canterbury

Completion Date February 05 – Stage 2, January 06 – Stage 3 & April 2007 –Stage 6

Consultant/Contact Mr. Ian Heslop - Engineer03 3727201

Value of Work $106,274 Stage 2, $164,718 – Stage 3 & $153,500 .00 – Stage 6

Description Removal of old stopbank and rebuild using existing material and gravel imported from Ashburton River. Compaction testing and requirements required.

Relevance Bulk earthworks to close tolerances and compaction criteria with constraints on maintaining integrity in event of flood situation. Local Authority contract with resource consent implications. 

Projects Stopbank up-grade Stage 2A & 2B - Belfast

Client Environment Canterbury

Completion Date September 2006 – 2A & September 07 – 2B

Consultant/Contact Mr. Ian Heslop - Engineer03 3727201

Value of Work $ 432,350.00 – 2 A & $492,720.00 – 2B

Description Removal of old stopbank and rebuild using existing material and gravel imported from Waimakariri River. Fencing and cattle yard replacement.

Relevance Bulk earthworks to close tolerances and compaction criteria with constraints on maintaining integrity in event of flood situation. Local Authority contract with resource consent implications.

Project Rolleston Recovery Park, Selwyn District Council

Client Sub-contracted to Smith Crane and Construction

Completion Date January 2006

Consultant/Contact Mr. G EssenbergSelwyn District Council 03 324 8080
Tim Smith 03 359 7759

Value of Work $200,394.00

Description Topsoil removal, cut and fill sub-grade to required level and compaction. Supply, lay and compact AP65 and AP40. Replace topsoil and re-grass.

Relevance Site development work

David Morris Earthworks (DME) are relatively recently established in the Canterbury area operating from their base in Hororata. In the seven years of being established in the area, DME have undertaken:-

Car parks and access road up-grading for Department of Conservation at Mt Sunday and Lake Clearwater.

Plantation stumping and clearing to grassing stage for a number of landowners in Selwyn area including Dairy Holdings, Grasslands Canterbury, Quartz Hill Station and Plains Holdings employing specially developed attachments to 33t bulldozers.

Up-grade Carneys Road, Alford Forest for Ashburton District Council.

Dairy farm conversion involving shelter belt removal and destumping, track formation and shed site development for Grasslands, Te Pirita.

Access road, track and car park development at Lake Heron, Alford Forest, Rangitata River and Lake Emma for Department of Conservation.

Stopbank up-grade Ashburton and Waimakariri Rivers for Environment Canterbury – five contracts.

Flood bank construction Kowhai and Hapuka Rivers, Kaikoura for Environment Canterbury.

Sports field development, Heathcote for Christchurch City Council.

Land restoration and retention basin construction for Selwyn District Council at Tai Tapu.

Overburden stripping for Ravensdown Fertiliser Co-operative at their Kakahu limestone quarry near Geraldine which also involved an engineered, compacted fill.

Land clearing and levelling alongside the Waimakariri River for Environment Canterbury.

Sub-contracted to Earthworks Marlborough constructing large irrigation dam in the Wairau River valley near Blenheim.

Dairy Conversions for Dairy Holdings Limited in Hororata and Oxford area.

Water storage dam construction, Mount Torlesse Station.

 All of the above works have to some degree involved compliance with consents, adherence to set quality standards and procedures with the works to completed to time schedules and budget.