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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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