HEB Construction Limited is the winner of the NZ Transport Agency $2.9 million contract to construct the Kaituna Road extension.

The 2.1km extension is currently a paper road to the east of the Tauranga Eastern Link (TEL) route and it will provide access for properties that will be cut off from Pah Road by the TEL.

The project involves relocating utilities, building a new storm water drainage system and constructing the road extension.

NZTA principal project manager Andrew Scott says work will get underway this month and is due to be completed by December 2011.

The Kaituna Road extension is the fifth project of the six TEL support projects to get underway. The other projects include:

• Extending Truman Lane so the Mangatawa Lane exit onto State Highway 2 can be closed
• Relocation of a bulk water main
• Storm water upgrades around Mangatawa
• Expansion of an existing pump station

A ceremony will be held later this month to mark the beginning of the main construction contract - more than six months earlier than anticipated.

The main construction contract was awarded last week to a consortium led by Fulton Hogan.