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Lyttelton Road Tunnel
The Lyttelton Road Tunnel connects Christchurch with the South Island’s largest deep-water port at Lyttelton. Opened on 27 February 1964, the tunnel through the Port Hills was an engineering challenge. The tunnel is 1.9 kilometres long and until the opening of Auckland's Waterview tunnel in 2017, was the longest road tunnel in New Zealand.
Homer Tunnel
In 1935 five men with picks, shovels and wheelbarrows began piercing the Darran Mountain Range, beginning the creation of a 1,240m long tunnel into Southland’s Cleddau Valley and the magnificent country beyond. The Homer Tunnel was an essential part of the Milford Sound to Te Anau road project – State Highway 94.
Kaimai Tunnel
Opened in 1978, the Kaimai tunnel provides an important rail link between the Waikato and the Port of Tauranga.
Ōtira Tunnel
This 8,529 metre tunnel was the longest in the British Empire at the time of its construction.
Ōtira Tunnel marks 100 years of service
The Ōtira Tunnel has been regarded as an engineering marvel ever since it opened on 4 August 1923, finally providing a rail link between Christchurch and the West Coast.
“We’re changing a city forever”
The Central Interceptor project – Aotearoa’s largest bored wastewater tunnel – has been designed to improve the health of waterways and meet the demands of ageing infrastructure, population growth and housing intensification in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.
Motukawa Tunnelling Machine
The tunnelling machine, used in 1924–25 for the construction of the headrace tunnel for the Motukawa Power Station (commissioned in 1927), was possibly the earliest use of a tunnelling machine in New Zealand.
Reginald Ernest Hermans (1918 - 2012)
As a civil engineer for the Ministry of Works, Reginald Ernest Hermans was involved with many significant projects, including overseeing the completion of the Kaimai tunnel.
Lyttelton Railway Tunnel
In 1850, when the first four ships arrived at Lyttelton, there were only two ways of reaching the township of Christchurch; by scrambling up the foot trail over the hill or by taking a boat over the Sumner bar and up the Avon river.
Waikaremoana Power Stations
The Waikaremoana hydro-electric power development in northern Hawke’s Bay consists of three power stations fed from the Lake Waikaremoana. The Tuai, Piripaua and Kaitawa power stations were completed between 1929 and 1948. The scheme was an early government one in the North Island, being second only to Mangahao in Horowhenua.
