Company Profile
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May 2026
Introduction General
Thank you for the opportunity to present this brief capability statement which details a cross-section of our skills and experience, and showcases a selection of our recent projects.
Creative Construction
Creative Construction at McConnell Dowell is the inspired engineering behind the complex infrastructure we deliver.
It's the technical problems and challenges solved behind the scenes by people empowered to think creatively and work collaboratively. It’s the alternative idea or innovation that saves time, reduces cost, makes us safer, and delivers more value.
It might not always be evident when you look at the end product, but it's there, inside every McConnell Dowell project.
Pago Pago Runway Upgrade 5-23 Stages 2 & 3
Our American Samoa team completed the contract to resurface and rehabilitate the asphalt pavement on the primary runway at Pago Pago International Airport in mid-2025.
This is the ninth project we've completed for the Pago Pago International Airport. Other recent projects for the Airport included upgrading 915 m (3,000 feet) of the runway, for Stage One of Runway 5-23 completed in 2018, and the Apron Rehabilitation Project finished in 2020.
Fast Facts
- 45,000 tonnes of asphalt
- 3050 m (7,000 feet) long stretch of runway
- 100 – 153 mm (4-6 inches) thick layer
Leone Village Bridge Replacement
Delivering value and minimising impact
We delivered the Leone Village Bridge Replacement in American Samoa on behalf of the US Army Corps of Engineers after the original bridge was damaged by a devastating tsunami.
The award of this contract was due to the substantial cost savings our team presented with our design, as compared to our customer's design.
Fast Facts
- Simplified the design to reduce cost and impact
- Steel H-pile design in place of concrete piles
- Propped cantilever retaining wall abutments
Snells Algies Wastewater Pipe & Outfall
Improving wastewater infrastructure while minimising disruption
Proposing a trenchless solution to minimise disruption, Watercare Services awarded us the Snells Algies wastewater pipe and outfall construction project. It resulted in new world record - a 2021 metre long Direct Pipe® drive delivered using a micro tunnel boring machine.
The project was the first phase of a three-phased scheme to improve water quality in the Mahurangi Harbour and cater for population growth in the Warkworth and Mahurangi East communities north of Auckland.
Fast Facts
- 2021 m world record Direct Pipe® drive by MTBM
- 4.3 km of 630 mm diameter HDPE pressure/gravity main installed in open trench
- 2 km of 1.2 m diameter steel pipe installed using the Direct Pipe® system
- 230 m outfall pipeline
- 530 m of 710 mm diameter HDPE pipe using horizontal directional drilling (HDD)
- 1220 mm OD steel pipe for the Direct Pipe®, 32 mm wall thickness
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Summary
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