Background The Heritage Time Capsule is an initiative from the ISSMGE for which detailed information can be found at https://www.issmge.org/the-society/time-capsule. Current content includes contributions from member societies, technical committees, past-presidents and corporate associates. The contribution from Australia to the Heritage Time Capsule project was the…
Abstract The Peka Peka to Ōtaki Expressway (PP2Ō) is a 13 km long, 4-lane expressway located on the Kāpiti Coast north of Wellington, New Zealand, serving as a replacement for the existing State Highway 1 (SH1). To the south, it connects with the MacKays to…
Key words: Cyclone Gabrielle, KiwiRail, geotechnical, civil 1. Introduction As with a large portion of the North Island’s transport infrastructure, KiwiRail’s network was heavily impacted by Cyclone Gabrielle that occurred in February 2023. The Palmerston North to Gisborne Line (PNGL) was the most severely affected,…
Abstract The Christchurch Northern Corridor is a scheme involving the construction of a new 4-lane highway connecting the City of Christchurch to the Northern Arterial Motorway. The scheme’s site is predominantly underlain by up to 15m of alluvial deposits including very weak, highly compressible peat…
Abstract An issue faced by young geotechnical professionals is when to terminate the Standard Penetration Tests (SPT) when advancing a borehole during a geotechnical investigation. This issue commonly arises in the soil-rock interface zone where the ground mass is transitioning from a soil to a…
Abstract A multifaceted desktop and field based geotechnical survey and geohazard mapping project was completed for over 25,000 ha of mixed rural and urban land identified for potential future urban growth and development within the Kaipara District in Northland, New Zealand. The project included desktop…
Abstract A residential development in the northern Waikato requires the excavation and placement of 700,000m3 of earth fill to generate suitable building platforms for domestic dwellings and associated infrastructure. During the first season of earthwork operations the highly variable and sensitive nature of the volcanically…
Abstract The geotechnical behaviour of natural pumiceous soil deposits is highly dependent on the percentage of highly crushable pumice particles to hard-grained sands, within the soils matrix. There is currently no standardised method to quantify the pumice content of a given soil sample. The research…
This time we had more entries than we have had in a long time so thank you to everyone who sent photos through, you made the judging quite tricky — we could not agree and so expanded the size of the judging panel to not…
North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery (NCTIR) State Highway 1, Peketā Key words: Rockfall, Canopy, Construction, NCTIR, Kaikōura Abstract The Rockfall Canopy (SCC-500) installed above State Highway 1 (SH1), south of Kaikōura extends for 104m in length and is the first of its kind in the Southern…
