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Porangahau and Wimbledon Road Upgrade

Ensuring exports get to port, farmers connect to town, and children get to school

  • $20M

    Provincial Growth Funding

  • 60KM

    Route Length

  • Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

    Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Providing transportation lifelines for rural and coastal communities

The Porangahau and Wimbledon roads in Central Hawke's Bay have been troublesome for many years. Plagued with floods, landslides, closed roads, driver delays and lack of funding, the route's reliability and resilience were jeopardising the regional economy's prospects to thrive.

Central Hawke's Bay District Council had the opportunity to fix the route with the assistance of $20.1m funding from central government's Provincial Growth Fund; the Council quickly identified the need for support and expertise in delivering the programme and called us. Our team led the programme's development and management from inception, were integral in the funding application, planned all activities, led design, and managed the construction elements.

The programme presented complexities in developing and confirming bridge upgrade options, assessing safety risk to the route, understanding geological vulnerabilities of the pavement, and analysing flood risk to known hot spots, managed all inside a finite budget with extremely tight timeframes. We also helped the Council reach targets such as social procurement outcomes which provided jobs to locals.

Our collaboration with local iwi (tribe) Ngāti Kere and Ngāti Kere Hapū Authority throughout ensured iwi views were fed into the overall programme—iwi and the Authority prepared a cultural impact assessment report with recommendations, in particular for a silt removal project in Tāureakaitai Stream and around Flaxmill Bridge.

We're working with the Council as one entity to provide future generations with safe and durable roading infrastructure along a key thoroughfare in the district.

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  • Central Hawke's Bay Dist. Council

Porangahau & Wimbledon Roads Upgrade

Stantec helped Central Hawke’s Bay District Council improve resilience and strengthen the transport infrastructure of Porangahau and Wimbledon roads to keep the community, and their economy, connected.

Meet Our Team

Grant Maxwell, Growth Leader – Infrastructure Resilience

I want to build geo-resilient communities that can cope with an uncertain future.
Grant Maxwell Growth Leader – Infrastructure Resilience Read More

Andrew Craig, Practice Leader, Flood Risk Management

I help clients understand the risks and impacts of flooding and develop resilient solutions to manage uncertainty and climate change.
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Eleni Gkeli, Technical Specialist, Rock Engineering/Geotech, Pavements & Structures Leader

I’m proud that my work helps to maintain critical infrastructure of regional and national significance.
Eleni Gkeli Technical Specialist, Rock Engineering/Geotech, Pavements & Structures Leader Read More

Melanie Muirson, Senior Principal Transportation Engineer/Practice Leader—Road Safety

I’m passionate about road safety and by contributing towards reducing road trauma I can help get our communities home safely, every day.
Melanie Muirson Senior Principal Transportation Engineer/Practice Leader—Road Safety Read More

Grant Maxwell

Growth Leader – Infrastructure Resilience

Andrew Craig

Practice Leader, Flood Risk Management

Eleni Gkeli

Technical Specialist, Rock Engineering/Geotech, Pavements & Structures Leader

Melanie Muirson

Senior Principal Transportation Engineer/Practice Leader—Road Safety

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