Leadership in construction

Brian Perry Civil's Seaview Wharf Resilience Project construction manager and environmental and sustainability advisor joined the Lunch and Learn session to talk about the ecological and environmental considerations working in Centre Point, Wellington.

Our Brian Perry Civil team share lessons learned from the Helensville wastewater treatment upgrade in this Lunch and Learn session.

ViDoc is the combination of the iPhone Lidar scanning and a GPS antenna mounted on the phone cover. This allows us to scan our work and georeference the scans with high accuracy.

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!

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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Opportunities exist with Firth to save water by increasing recycled water in concrete mixes.

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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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.

Fletcher Construction's Critical Bridges Project construction manager shares the team's five-year journey constructing bridges in Fiji in this Lunch and Learn session.

The question has been asked several times about digital engineering in infrastructure and how we get value from putting our time and energy to enabling digital engineering practices. This Lunch and Learn sessions aims to articulate what digital engineering is.

In a sprint organised by Fletcher Construction, the Eastern Busway project team looked at buried services as a key risk and came up with how to do things better. Find out how they did it in this Lunch and Learn session.

Resources for the promotion of Construction careers from across the NZ Infrastructure sector.

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Engineering Services provides an overview on the drone technology and digital tools Fletcher Construction used in Papua New Guinea projects.

Design Community of Practise quickfire presentation:  A presentation from our Environmental Manager Alex Bees, on the digital approach to environmental management taken at the Eastern Busway Project. Alex discusses how the project has made great use of ArcGIS layers and newly released embedded tools to assist with managing the environmental effects of earthworks, runoff and construction works in a suburban environment.

Design Community of Practise quickfire presentation:  A presentation from our Delivery Outcomes Manager, Matt Findlay outlining the New Zealand Upgrade Programme (NZUP).

The Living Pā is the bold redevelopment of Te Herenga Waka Marae into one of the world’s most environmentally responsible hubs.

This 3-storied, timber mega structure on high-profile 980sqm urban, mixed-use site on steep excavated land, adjacent to several multi-storey institutional buildings that restrict solar access is targeting Living Building certification under the LBC framework which requires the pā to be net positive in energy, carbon, water, and waste, and demonstrably give back to the local ecology and community.

The Living Pā one of the largest-scale buildings to work towards Living Building certification. This comes with many firsts for Aotearoa, each bringing a unique suite of challenges. It is the first mass timber building to target the Living Building Challenge, and the first mass timber building undertaken by the contractor. It is one of only a few mass timber buildings in Aotearoa.

Beacon case studies showcase examples of good practice and innovation in the construction sector.

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Last August, Aotearoa New Zealand’s concrete industry launched its roadmap to net zero carbon by 2050.

Concrete New Zealand (NZ) chief executive Rob Gaimster says the publication of the roadmap is a pivotal moment for the concrete industry and the country’s built environment.

“We must provide adaptive solutions that address and help ease the impacts of climate change in a country that is also at risk of earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes.

“As well as contributing to our nation’s resilience, the concrete industry is committed to being part of efforts to mitigate climate change.

“This roadmap represents a collective effort, combining the expertise, ingenuity, and commitment of the concrete industry and wider construction sector, to meeting our environmental responsibilities. It builds on global cement and concrete industry progress to achieve net zero carbon emissions which has been recognised by the United Nations.”