Leadership in construction

FletcherTech held a Tech Talk event in Penrose, featuring Exxovantage CEO Arnaud Daurat.

Arnaud spoke about the current abilities’ exoskeletons can impart on today’s workforce and what they can mean in the future as they become more accessible and commonplace. Benefits included increased safety, longevity, productivity and extending capabilities for those with limitations.

The FletcherTech Tech Talk series is designed to introduce contemporary and emerging ideas/technologies in an accessible format for Fletcher Building team members.

We’re using ‘Innovation Sprints’ to help solve business challenges and accelerate innovative ideas. The sprints help us to quickly come up with the right solutions in a short time.

Working together, our Operational and  Environment, Health and Safety group recently took this Agile approach to help keep our people safe. They organised a sprint focused on finding an engineering solution to manage the critical risk of our people being struck by mobile plant such as excavators, rollers, cranes, etc.

In just six weeks the team scanned the globe and came up with a solution which complements our Safe Work System for People Interface Zones – installing AI cameras on plant blind spots to clearly identify and locate people who inadvertently enter into a blind spot on an operational piece of plant so the operator can take appropriate action to prevent a potential harm event.

This solution has been installed on a variety of machines and sites where the risk is the highest, with more to come!

Safety culture on construction sites is a product of all inputs, and an aligned contribution between contractors, clients and design leaders plays an essential role in culture formation.

BPC offers our partners key tools from our Protect Safety Programme, explaining effective safety leadership, and how to hold impactful interactions that contribute to a positive safety culture. The Protect Programme is based on global best practice.

Training is delivered by BPC line leaders, with support from our construction Wellbeing, Health and Safety teams.

In this Tech Talk event held in Penrose, award-winning tech entrepreneur and internationally acclaimed Futurist, Melissa Clark-Reynolds spoke on the future and what it looks like for humans and well as AI, the future of advancing technologies such as robotics, virtual reality, bio tech and fin tech, their impacts, and how they change the way we live and the transact.

The FletcherTech Tech Talk series is designed to introduce contemporary and emerging ideas/technologies in an accessible format for Fletcher Building team members.

Subsidised staff transport on AT services make public transport the easy choice.

Fareshare allows employers to offer subsidised public transport to staff, on AT services, as an employee benefit which is exempt from fringe benefit tax. Subsidise either 25%, 50% or 75%, on weekdays only or 7-days.

Email to find out more: fareshare@at.govt.nz

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The City Rail Link (CRL) is being designed and constructed to the highest sustainability standards.

The CRL project aims to achieve sustainability excellence by being careful with the resources it uses, optimising its carbon footprint, avoiding waste and leaving a positive social and cultural legacy for Tāmaki Makaurau.

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Brian Perry Civil is providing main contractor services for the Hangar 4 Foam Tank Project. This building project has a Green Star requirement that encourages sustainable thinking with our supply chain. As a large portion of our carbon footprint is linked to concrete usage, we are looking for ways to reduce the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of the concrete that we use.

Digital Engineer Jonathan Kubiak and Surveyor Bayley Smith discuss their work on the Coromandel peninsula using a LIDAR drone to survey road slips following the major weather events of early 2023, including Cyclone Gabrielle. This discussion was originally a FC Design Community of Practise quickfire presentation.

In our special Lunch and Learn session, Andrew Williams and Caitlin Tonner from the Brisbane Stantec office give examples of how sustainability outcomes are driven and embedded into projects in their region.  Andrew is a sustainability professional with 15 years of experience across many top tier engineering firms. Caitlin is a project technical lead with extensive infrastructure experience delivering ISC projects in Queensland.

Project Engineer Kyle Marshall explains how a bubble curtain has mitigated the environmental impact of marine piling at the Seaview Wharf project. Kyle talks about how the team took an off the shelf product and came up with a number of innovative improvements to suit project requirements. This was originally a Design Community of Practise quickfire presentation.

Reducing construction waste can be easier than you think. Making small changes to things you already do can make a massive difference.

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Keep Britain Tidy today unveils a newly designed and tested version of the waste hierarchy as part of fresh guidance to help the industry to better educate the public about waste prevention and mindful consumption and urgently accelerate the UK’s transition to a circular economy.  

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National Survey Manager Nebojsa Ludajic explains how he’s been surveying manholes using laser scanning technology. This approach provides significant improvements in safety and data collection. This was originally a Design Community of Practise quickfire presentation.

We believe a low-carbon future is within reach for all Kiwi homes. To show what’s possible we’re introducing you to LowCO, our low energy, low carbon and low water use pilot homes project at Waiata Shores, Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland.

This year, we will take you on a journey. We will show you how LowCO has been designed to have seven times less carbon, and use half the electricity and water of a standard built home. The people who will ultimately live here will be healthier, warmer and drier and have less bills to pay. You will hear from many people contributing to this ambitious project.

Follow us on our LowCO journey. These are our plans for the future.

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Senior Site Engineer Clifford Dsouza talks about the BPC Foundations team’s efforts to prevent further erosion of a cliff that collapsed during Cyclone Gabrielle. The project was made very complex due to the incredibly restricted site that remained after the major slip. This was originally a Design Community of Practise quickfire presentation.

Carbon management and reporting help us understand industry challenges and develop solutions aligning to net zero carbon transition and positive environmental outcomes.

The Brian Perry Civil (BPC) team managing the construction of Silverstream Pipe Bridge – replacing the Wellington region’s most critical water supply asset and supplying all water to Porirua City and North Wellington – used the ECI process to reduce carbon on the project by 62%. This was achieved through collaborative design changes alongside Wellington Water and designer Holmes that reduced the both quantity and type of materials used.

The seventh Construction Industry Survey - a research partnership between Civil Contractors New Zealand (CCNZ) and Teletrac Navman. Our research helps to build a picture of New Zealand’s civil construction industry and the experiences of those within the industry.

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A November 2023 webinar covering local sustainability updates including presentations from ISC, Auckland Council, Teletrac Navman and FH.

Watch the webinar