Project newsletter – May 2017

CPB HEB JV Project Director Boyd Knights, WGP CEO Sergio Mejia, Ōtaki MP Nathan Guy, Transport Minister Simon Bridges, and NZ Transport Agency's Highway Manager Neil Walker at the Cannons Creek Bridge construction site.

Minister pleased with progress after recent site visit

On Thursday 27 April 2017, Transport Minister Simon Bridges and Ōtaki MP Nathan Guy visited the southern section of the Transmission Gully motorway project, including works on the project’s largest structure, the Cannons Creek Bridge.

After arriving on site, Ministers Bridges and Guy, along with media representatives were run through the visitor health and safety induction, issued with PPE gear, and then escorted to 4WD vans to start the tour.

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Check out our new website – www.tg.co.nz

Our new website is live

We’re excited to announce that our refreshed Transmission Gully motorway project website is now live. The updated site includes changes to navigation, with layout options for both mobile and desktop. We’ve also improved the structure of our content, so you’ll get more from a quick read. There’s a whole host of smaller but helpful changes, all to make your experience of the Transmission Gully website that much better for you.

The new website aims to give visitors better access to information about the project, including how we’re building it, protecting the environment, and working with the community. We’ve also uploaded the latest photos from the air and on the ground for you to see just how much progress is being made.

We’ll be regularly updating our content with helpful information, articles, newsletters, announcements and events in the project news section, and sharing this via our e-newsletter. Don’t forget to tell your family and friends to sign up, so they can be sent the latest project news.

We hope you enjoy our new site. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, you can email them to info@tg.co.nz.

Earthworks underway at the top of the Wainui Saddle

Construction update – wrapping up a summer season of earthworks

Despite Wellington's unusually wet summer, great progress continues to be made across the project. In the south, over a million cubic metres of earth has been moved this season, with construction on the new motorway’s four major interchanges in full swing. Three of the project’s 27 structures are now complete, with a further eight underway. In the north, diversion works on the Te Puka and Horokiri streams are progressing well, and some of the project’s largest earth cuts have started in the Wainui Saddle.

For the latest from the team on what’s been happening across the Transmission Gully project, read more >

Key milestones

Aerial photos of the construction of the Transmission Gully motorway.

A view from above

We've been busy capturing the progress of the construction of the Transmission Gully motorway by air and land. Check out our latest aerial shots and other highlights in our image gallery.

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View an animated video showing the Te Puka Stream diversion

A feat of environmental engineering

Innovative work is happening at the northern end of the Transmission Gully project to shift sections of Te Puka Stream sideways and up to 20 metres above its current position to allow for the new motorway route.

CPB HEB Joint Venture Project Director Boyd Knights described it as one of the unique aspects to the motorway. Water is progressively diverted through a pipe system along the valley floor. Once diverted, the ground is then excavated and the area filled more than 45 metres high to the final level of the new motorway.

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Left: Deputy Project Director Frank Casteleyn
Right: Strategic Environmental Advisor Reuben Mills

Expertise from Timbuktu and beyond

It’s a long way from the Waikato to Armenia and even further from Paremata to the remote northwest African city of Timbuktu.

But the expertise of CPB HEB Joint Venture senior engineers and environmental staff working on the Transmission Gully motorway was developed in such places and many other parts of the world. These skills are now being passed on to local sub-contractors and young employees in the project’s mostly-Kiwi workforce.

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The Transmission Gully project team talk to the community at a recent Porirua Night Market event.

Connecting with the community

The community is a big part of our project. With 27 kilometres to cover, we’re committed to keeping our community updated, and we’re always out and about talking to neighbours about what we’re doing in their area.

It’s been a busy few months for the community team, who’ve been working with the wider project team to update the local community on progress, and to make sure our neighbours are the first to know about works that will impact on them and to talk about how we can help minimise the effects of our work.

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Transmission Gully motorway mural by Porirua graffiti artist, Anthony (Antz) June.

Mural with a difference

We’d like to acknowledge local Porirua graffiti artist, Anthony June (Antz), who created this spectacular Transmission Gully motorway mural on the outside of the mobile visitor centre in March. Antz has worked on a number of projects with the Porirua City Council, and was also involved in Chorus’ broadband cabinet art initiative.

If you’re down Cobham Court way, be sure to stop by and check it out!

View our image gallery for more photos of the mobile visitor centre mural.

More information

For more information on the Transmission Gully motorway project, contact us at 0800 TG INFO (0800 7726 4636) or email us at info@tg.co.nz

Visit our website www.tg.co.nz