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Earthworks
Moving dirt is harder than you think, so we’ve spent decades perfecting the art form.
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Enabling Works
To ensure everyone can work the site, we first need to carve out access tracks and create areas for machinery and on-site offices to be built. Even more importantly, we need to relocate services so that there are no distributions to utilities in the area.
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Clearing
In order to move dirt, sometimes you’ve got to find it. Before the full scope of earthworks can begin, we do whatever is necessary to prep the site for the task – whether that be clearing vegetation and existing structures, or removing contaminated materials.
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Erosion + Sediment Control
One of the most important parts of moving earth is making sure it only goes where it’s supposed to go. That’s why we’re incredibly strict about our erosion and sediment control systems meeting or exceeding both legislative and industry standards.
To prevent wind and water erosion, we are able to stabilise the land with land hay mulching, grassing, hydroseeding and the use of coconut/jute matting. To prevent sediment from leaving our site and reaching clean water sources, we utilise sediment retention ponds, decanting earth bunds, diversion channels, silt fences, and chemical management.
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Bulk earthworks
When you talk about moving earth, small jobs are rarely small, and big jobs can be massive. Luckily for us, from cut and fill operations to stockpile management, our fleet of excavators, articulated dump trucks and elevating scrapers have the capacity to shift over 2,000,000m3 of earth in a season.
We are also able to manage and remove contaminated materials, and our GPS machinery can complete highly detailed trimming, intricate batters, cut faces, and lot platforms.
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Geotechnical Improvements
We don’t just move the earth, we are experts in making sure it remains stable. Our engineering and earthworks expertise gives us what we need to complete complex earthworks with geotechnical improvements.
That might mean using mass blocks for retaining walls; geogrids or textiles to reinforce earth slopes; utilising shear keys and palisade walls; creating geotechnical drainage systems; or preventing erosion through gully remediation.
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The project team raised risks ahead of time and provided solutions and costs/impacts for client review.
Many lessons were learned on Harapaki, and the site team learned quickly and invested heavily into ensuring everyone onsite got home safely and without serious injury.
Following the devastating impact of Cyclone Gabrielle, our rural roads in Dartmoor were left heavily damaged and impassable, cutting off vital access for residents, farmers, and emergency services. From the outset, the Hicks team stepped in with professionalism, urgency, and genuine care for our community. The Hicks team has worked tirelessly to stabilise slips, and rebuild key sections of the Dartmoor road network. Communication was excellent throughout the process, and they consistently went the extra mile to minimise disruption to local residents. The quality of the repair work has been outstanding – built not just to restore, but to better withstand future events. We are deeply grateful for their commitment and expertise. Their efforts have been instrumental in helping Dartmoor recover and reconnect after such a difficult time. The Dartmoor Community recently invited the Hicks team to a Community BBQ in appreciation for their hard work, dedication, long hours and the respect and care they have shown to our community throughout the recovery process. We would not hesitate to recommend them for any future infrastructure projects. “
Contact Energy culture is to work collaboratively with our contractors while also trusting that they are the experts. Hick Bros fitted this mould very well and we appreciated their ability and enthusiasm to put forward new ideas to optimise the project delivery and outcome.
“[HBRC] were super impressed with our efforts to protect wetlands, RAPs and EIA. They said nobody else goes to this level of thought and effort and to see it across such a large & challenging work area was exceptional.”
Working within Contact Energy’s safety rules and standards, as there was some operational plant around the site, was an increase in safety requirements to what I would say the industry standards are. Hicks were very obliging to adapt to these requirements and had no hesitation bringing in the systems or equipment required to do so.
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