Doug Hood Mining

Civil Engineering

Ashburton Aquatic Park (Lake Hood), mid Canterbury, South Island

December 31, 2002

DHML was contracted between 2000 and 2002 to construct the Ashburton Aquatic Park (now Lake Hood) for the Ashburton Aquatic Park Charitable Trust. Lake Hood is situated 6km from the town of Ashburton, mid Canterbury, in the South Island of New...Read more

Golden Cross Mine rehabilitation, drainage and closure, Waihi, North Island

December 31, 2001

In 1997 DHML began a 5 year association with Coeur Gold at the Golden Cross Mine, Waihi, south eastern Coromandel, New Zealand This contract involved extensive bulk earthworks totalling 2.8M m3 comprising overburden stripping, ore extraction...Read more

SH 6 Spooners Summit Realignment, Nelson Region, South Island

July 1, 2001

6.5km state highway realignment A state highway realignment contracted for $4.3M comprising 600,000m3 of earthworks including several large engineered fills of up to 36m in height and all drainage and pavement construction associated with the 6.5km...Read more

SH1 Ngutukaka, Otago, South Island

January 1, 2001

This project was a realignment valued at $1.8M and involving 2 km of pavement construction, 100,000m3 earthworks, multiplate culvert structures including a 3.2m diameter multiplate culvert and 2.7m diameter Helcor stock underpass. Construction...Read more

Redvale Landfill, Redvale, Auckland, North Island

December 31, 1998

The company was contracted to Waste Management NZ Ltd between 1994 and 1998 for $9.3M to construct two earth dams, two major haul roads, and a major earth retaining structure to support a weak fill area to store overburden from the landfill site...Read more

Opuha Dam, Fairlie, South Island

December 31, 1998

Hydro-electric power station, recreational lake, irrigation water reservoir & conservator of downstream minimum flow, all-in-one Opuha Dam is located at the confluence of the north and south branches of the Opuha River, 18 km from Fairlie in the...Read more

SH5 Tumunui Realignment, Rotorua, North Island

May 31, 1998

Accelerated road construction due to moisture sensitive materials This 2km Transit New Zealand/Rotorua District Council project, contracted for $3.1M, started in May 1997 and completed in April 1998, 6 months early. Work involved constructing a...Read more

Waimahara Wharf site development, Shakespeare Bay, Picton, South Island

January 1, 1997

In 1996 DHML was contracted to Port Marlborough to develop what is now Waimahara Wharf in Shakespeare Bay, Marlborough Sounds, for $3.5M. Port Marlborough’s Shakespeare Bay is a sheltered deepwater location ideally suited to forestry exports...Read more

Maungaiti Hill SH1 Realignment, South Waikato, North Island

December 31, 1996

$8M state highway realignment in South Waikato This State Highway 1 project, contracted for $8M between 1994 and 1996, required construction of 5 km of new and 1km of existing road realignment. This involved 800,000 m3 of earthworks, a significant...Read more

Poihipi Road Geothermal Station, Taupo, North Island

November 1, 1995

Geothermal power station site works DHML was involved in the site development for New Zealand’s first major private geothermal power station, Poihipi Road geothermal station, built for Mercury Geotherm Limited, a joint venture between Mr...Read more