Pennisula Connection SP4

Peninsula project proves a success

PROJECT: Peninsula Connection SP4 CONTRACTOR: Fulton Hogan CLIENT: Dunedin City Council VALUE: $17.8m

For 90 years, Fulton Hogan has worked on some of Dunedin’s leading infrastructure projects – but few quite like Peninsula Connection.

This project enhances public access to the Otago Peninsula – by any means desired. It is a spectacular, exposed and sensitive location and this, along with its importance to DCC and the people of Dunedin, meant it faced considerable scrutiny.

This entry is for the ‘SP4’ project, from Company Bay to Broad Bay. SP4 involved multiple aspects of civil engineering, from road widening (by an average of eight metres) to road raising (by an average of 0.6 metres), pathways, boardwalks, stairways to access the harbour, relocation

of boat sheds, public seating areas, landscaping, native planting and a hand-laid stone sea wall. Despite Covid, the team completed the project two months ahead of schedule and on budget (excluding variations). There were multiple factors behind this, and none more significant than the extraordinary level of community involvement, engagement and support. This included public, 59 3CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2022 CCNZ / HIREPOOL community and even private facilities being made available to the project team, and Fulton Hogan reciprocating in a variety of ways. Fulton Hogan’s stated purpose is “Creating, Connecting and Caring for Communities”. Few projects of scale are as true to these words as SP4.