Harker Underground Construction is an Auckland-based company who offers their microtunnelling and pipejacking services for the installation of pipelines and / or conduits.
Harker Underground Construction has been operating New Zealand wide since 1988. Our speciality is the trenchless installation of pipe using microtunnelling and pipejacking methods in built up / CBD areas; under existing buildings; for crossings under motorways, arterial roads and railway lines; and for pipelines installed at depth.
Our notable achievements over the years of operation now include:
- Being the first contractor to pipejack through Wellington City’s harbour reclamations
- Undertaking the longest pipejack (600 metres of 2100mm ID pipe) to date in New Zealand
- Being the only New Zealand company to have pipejacked 3000mm diameter concrete pipe in New Zealand
- Installation of New Zealand’s first curved pipejack (400 metre radius on a 2000mm diameter pipe)
- Installation of new stormwater pipelines at depths of 24 metres below ground level
- Winners of two New Zealand Contractors Federation’s construction awards for innovation and construction excellence
- Owners of the largest and most modern selection of TBMs in New Zealand, capable of installing pipe ranging from 450mm to 3000mm in diameter
- The only company in New Zealand and Australia that is able to offer clients a complete range of TBMs, with the ability to design and manufacture their own TBMs of comparable standard to plant and equipment available overseas.
