Project newsletter – Winter 2019

The teams’ Workplace NZ Health and Safety award onsite at the bridge over Cannons Creek.

Transmission Gully team take out award for innovative health and safety initiative

On Tuesday 28 May, the Transmission Gully Project team's innovative in-crane GPS warning system took out honours for ‘Best use of innovative New Zealand design or technology to eliminate or manage a risk’ at the 2019 New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety awards.

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View looking north over the new northbound bridge over SH1 nearing completion.

Building strong bridges over State Highway 1 traffic

The heavily-reinforced concrete columns and bridge girders spanning the Kenepuru-Linden stretch of SH1, are another great technical story of the Transmission Gully motorway.

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View of the bridge over Cannons Creek, which is set to reach the northern abutment at the end of July.

Team innovation at heart of bridge build

Designing a long, high, curving bridge that is aesthetic yet able to withstand a 1-in-2500-year seismic event, and building it in rugged terrain, requires a special mix of engineering excellence and innovation.

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Native specimens onsite at Battle Hill Farm Forest Park, ready for planting.

Planting season to reach record numbers with help of Kiwi ingenuity

With just over a million native trees and shrubs left to plant along the 27-kilometre route, the project team is gearing up for another busy winter planting season. With the help of an innovative new planting excavator a whopping 450,000 natives will go in the ground this season.

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Pauatahanui school students undertake a test launch of their water rockets.

Rocket challenge inspiring future Kiwi engineers

The Transmission Gully motorway project team partnered with Engineering NZ, and recently took part in the 'Wonder Project rocket challenge'. The challenge runs for six weeks - through May and June, and aims to teach students Newton's laws of motion, spark their creative thinking and inspire them to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

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Transmission Gully motorway milestones

At the start of June:

The new motorway route can now be clearly seen winding up the Wainui Saddle from Paekākāriki.

Construction update

Our winter programme is now well underway across the project and the new motorway is really starting to take shape. Several sections of the alignment are now at pre-pavement level and a massive 76 percent of the project’s structures are complete, with many of the remaining ones set to be finished by the end of winter.

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The mobile visitor centre is now open onsite at Coastlands, Paraparaumu.

Transmission Gully motorway mobile visitor centre takes up residence in Paraparaumu

With much of the project happening out of public sight, the mobile visitor centre is a great way for people across the region to learn more about how we’re constructing the new motorway.

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View over works underway at SH58, with Whitby and the Porirua Harbour in the background.

A view from above

Check out the project’s image gallery to view the latest photos of the motorway from the air and on the ground.

Visit our video library to see animated videos of the Interchanges and innovative construction works for the project.

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