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8. Recommendations

8. Recommendations

Once completed, the Aotea Station will include platforms, lifts, escalators, rooms for housing stations and tunnel services equipment, an entrance building at Wellesley Street, two additional entrance buildings at Victoria Street, a Plenum at Kingston Street, services, internal and architectural finishings, structural fittings, utilities services diversions and connections. Given the nature and scale of the Aotea Station construction, works will be undertaken in a staged manner. These construction works have been authorised by three separate Outline Plan Packages, with construction works expected to continue until the completion of the Project in 2024. The Aotea Construction Works have been staged as follows:

Table 1: Staging of the Aotea Construction Works

Construction Works Description

Stage 1 to 3 (authorised by OPW60345651) Canopy removal, network utility relocation and site establishment works.

Stage 4 and 5 (authorised by OPW60348747)

Main Works (authorised by OPW6035461)

More Canopy removal and utility relocation works. Micro-tunnelling works along Victoria Street. Site establishment works involving tree removal.

Construction of the Aotea station and associated above ground structures. Mined tunnels for the rail tracks and structural fitout and internal and architectural finishings.

Date Approved Status

1 October 2019 Complete –the work was undertaken from October 2019 to March 2020. 6 December 2019 The work commenced in December 2019. Large parts are complete. 8 May 2020 The work commenced in early 2020 and is scheduled to continue through to late-2023.

Summary of Key Construction Works

The following outlines key construction activities occurring during the various stages of the Aotea Construction Works. A detailed account of the Aotea Construction Works is provided in the Construction Environmental Management Plan as relevant to the stage of works. It is noted that the Aotea Construction Works (described in Table 1), are concentrated along Albert Street, between Wyndham Street in the North to Mayoral Drive in the South, and includes works within the adjacent Streets of Kingston, Victoria and Wellesley Streets. Some of the works listed below have already been undertaken. Some will be undertaken later in the Project.

Aotea Stage 1 – 3

 Canopy removal works along the western side of Albert Street between Victoria Street West and Wellesley Street West.  Approximately 680m of trenching works required to relocate utilities, predominantly within the footpaths along Albert Street including within the northern section of the Albert Street slip lane.

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 Set up of the Construction Support Area within the Bledisloe House carpark (corner of

Mayoral Drive and Wellesley Street).

Aotea Stage 4 and 5

 Additional trenching works along Albert Street to relocate utilities. These works extended into the Albert Street slip lane, preventing southern egress from this lane.  Trenches along both sides of Kingston Street required for utility relocations resulted in Kingston Street being closed.  Micro tunnelling along Victoria Street West.  Canopy removals continued.  Full closure of the Wellesley Street / Albert Street intersection for utility relocations.  Establishment of the Construction Support Area within the Bledisloe House carpark, requiring the removal of trees.

Aotea Main Works

The Aotea Main Works were authorised on 8 May 2020. These works have commenced and will be ongoing until the completion of the Project in 2024. The Aotea Main Works involve:  Installation of D-walls along either side of Albert Street from Mayoral Drive to the Victoria Street intersection.  Bored pile installation north of Victoria Street.  ‘Top down’ construction involving construction of the roof structure in stages and allowing portions of the road to be reopened to traffic.  Construction of the Aotea Station including its internal fitout.  Removal of the Bluestone wall and reconstruction of the wall once the station works are complete2 .  Retrieval of the Tunnel Boring Machine following its first and second drive.

2 These works will be undertaken in accordance with the Bluestone Wall Management Plan, certified by the Heritage

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