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Construction Manager Adam Blackie and Project Engineer Nichola Ram collecting the award on behalf of the team
This mahi didn’t go to waste
It’s important to ensure that we look after the surrounding environment and the health and safety of those who live and travel through the area whilst the project is in construction.
The work undertaken to widen a section of State Highway 1 was recently recognised by wasteMINZ at the Awards for Excellence with the project taking home the ‘Disposal to Land’ award for their work managing the impact on the adjacent Rosedale Landfill.
To build the Northern Busway and shared user path upgrades in this section of the project, we spent many months planning how part of the landfill could be safely removed to make way for these important transport upgrades all within the confines of the available landfill. Before any work started on site, a meticulous 18-month planning process was undertaken and included activities such as geotech potholing, settlement monitoring, location of live gas mains and power cables as well as compaction trialling.
This high level of planning helped to ensure that we could achieve three main outcomes – the landfill was exposed for the minimum amount of time, 8,500 tonne of waste was able to be removed in just 15 days, and that there was no risk public health while this work was carried out.
WasteMINZ is a membership-based organisation with over 1,500 members – from small operators, councils, environmental consultants, through to large industry operators. The organisation focuses on waste, resource recovery and contaminated land management in New Zealand.
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