We are really lucky to work with some absolute GC’s (good companies) in the construction and engineering industry. We’ve done quite a few projects with these guys, but here’s one of the more recent jobs we’ve been involved with.
👉 THE PROJECT
Royal New Zealand Air Force - Te Whare Toroa, Ōhakea
👉 WHO WE WORKED WITH
Emmetts Civil Construction Limited
👉 THE GIG
Construction of Te Whare Toroa - two hangar bays to house the NZRAF P-8A Poseidon aircraft.
👉 WHAT WE DID
Our friends at Emmetts Civil Construction engaged us to help out with project and construction management of their part of this $250M job in the mighty Manawatu.
We were right in the thick of things playing a pivotal role in contract administration, negotiations, and managing formal correspondence. We were responsible for developing and maintaining a programme of works, allocating, tracking and coordinating task management ensuring seamless coordination across the various disciplines and stakeholders.
Much to the delight of our engineers, we had the chance to get our hands dirty by developing the process for building the 33m high columns that support the roof of the hangar. This included a vertical segmental precast method for the column construction which involved match casting the column sections horizontally, then erecting (hehe) them vertically on site.
Some temporary post-tensioning was used to hold the sections together until they could be permanently grouted. This meant no need for fugly diagonal props which would have blocked the adjacent construction activities.
We also took charge of quality control, managing costs, financial tracking, claim processes and variations. Finally, we successfully handled the smooth handover of asset information.
Shout out to our mates at Grayson Engineering Limited who tied into all our work. It’s a thing of beauty when the structural steel guys perfectly line up all their inny bits with our outy bits.
Technically, if you scaled the hangar, walked across the roof then climbed down the other side, you could call it a bridge.
