Crl connection newsletter May 2017

CRL Connection

5 May 2017

Guerilla Coffee Co owner Rosh Java and head barista Chris Ansin

Guerilla Coffee Co – a coffee revolution on Swanson If you are passionate about awesome custom-blend Fairtrade coffee, a trip to the Guerilla Coffee Co at 15 Swanson Street may revolutionise your existence.

Owned by husband and wife team Rosh Java and Upul Hettiappu, the Guerilla Coffee Co offers a warm haven and a sense of family for central city coffee lovers.

“Our customers are the type of people who definitely love to drink coffee,” Rosh says.

“Many of them are regulars who have been coming to us for years, so we’ve got quite a tight-knit coffee-loving community and we’ve made some solid friendships.”

At Guerilla, there are no set prices for your coffee. You only pay what you think your coffee is worth, and this, says Rosh, ensures the coffee served is always of the highest quality.

The small café is big on custom-blends and ensures as many ingredients are possible are organic and fairly traded. It also has a single-origin coffee that changes every month.

“Our signature coffee, named after one of our former baristas, is called “Hammy’s Quad Nanny”, which is basically four shots in a nano-sized flat white. Not the kind of coffee that’s ordered in your regular café,” says Rosh.

“We also do a special coffee with coconut oil, which is our interpretation of the Bulletproof coffee that is popular in the UK. It protects the lining of the stomach from the acid in the coffee. It’s also delicious.”

The café also provides a range of delicious food items from sandwiches, wraps, soups and salads, to muffins, cakes and slices, all made with free-range products.

Rosh and Upul also own the Espresso Coffee School, which trains hundreds of students every year in the art of coffee-making.

Guerilla Coffee Co, located on Swanson Street, just down from Albert Street on the left, is open 7am to 2.30pm, Monday to Friday.

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Preparatory works begin ahead of CRL tunnel excavation

Installation of steel struts on Albert Street ahead of tunnel excavation.

From Monday next week, City Rail Link (CRL) will enter the final stage of its preparation works on Albert Street before tunnel construction works begin.

Connectus will start removing the top 1.5m of road surface on the eastern side of the road between Wyndham and Swanson Streets before installing the second half of the temporary steel work required to support the walls of the trench in which the future CRL tunnels will be constructed.

Any utility services that remain in this top portion of the road will be temporarily supported on the steel work to ensure there is no disruption to local residents and businesses.

In a few weeks, a temporary deck will be constructed over the top of these steel struts,

which will provide working room over the top of the trench for excavators and haulage trucks.

A lane of traffic will be maintained in each direction throughout these works.

On the remainder of Albert Street between Swanson and Customs Street, work continues to tie together and brace the 20-metre-deep piles installed to support the trench walls.

Next week, excavation will also begin on the third portion of the traffic deck being constructed at the Customs/Albert Street intersection. When all four sections of the deck are completed in September, they will form a bridge structure that spans the entire intersection, allowing all four traffic lanes to be re-established while the CRL tunnels are constructed underneath.

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Lower Queen St lawn makes way for CRL progress The area in front of Britomart Train Station - which enjoyed a year-long stint as inner city lawn and public space – is now transitioning into a City Rail Link (CRL) construction zone.

It’s taking on a new look as contractors Downer Soletanche Bachy prepare for the cut and cover works to build the CRL twin tunnels from the outer platforms at Britomart. In addition, the adjacent Commercial Bay development needs more space.

This week the trees and i-Site were moved to new homes and the artificial grass was rolled away.

Temporary fencing is in place around the footpath in front of the Chief Post Office (CPO) building.

It became a meeting point, a transit space, a transport thoroughfare and a surprise space with buskers, art installations, tour promoters, interactive community events and food stalls and hosted the memorable CRL construction launch ceremony.

Although the space was surrounded by construction zones, the transformation proved to be popular with visitors and locals alike, especially over summer when deck chairs were used daily.

The CRL is working with Auckland Council and other interested groups on a concept plan for restoring Lower Queen Street as a public space once construction is complete.

Safe pedestrian access will be provided at all times from Quay Street to Customs Street, but will become narrowed over the course of the month.

Vehicle and pedestrian access will be maintained to Tyler and Galway Streets and access to the train station will continue to be available from the current entrances in Tyler, Galway and Commerce Streets.

It was last year’s removal of buses from Lower Queen Street that allowed the street to undergo a temporary transformation. Partnering with Activate Auckland, the CRL team installed artificial grass, surface paint and artwork to turn it into a popular public space.

Above: Artificial turf removal.

Below: People enjoying Lower Queen Street as a public space.

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CRL wins procurement award The CRL project won Sustainability Project of the Year at the EY New Zealand Procurement Excellence Awards on Wednesday night.

Judges said the CRL, New Zealand’s largest and most complex infrastructure project, “has been designed to the highest sustainability standards, standards unprecedented in New Zealand, with the design being recognised as ‘leading’ by the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australasia”.

Judges added: “The challenge to the team was to develop and embed these standards at the procurement stage across a project comprising eight different contracts. Taking learnings from the first contracting processes and expanding traditional notions of environmentally friendly outcomes to consider long-term social outcomes, we have no doubt that under the guidance of their procurement team with a focus on sustainability

CRL Project Director Chris Meale and Principal Sustainability Advisor Liz Root with the award.

design, the CRL will be constructed and managed to the highest standards.”

The other finalists in the category were Air New Zealand and NZ Transport Agency.

Time to fix historic clock’s tick-tock The historic clock gracing the front of Britomart Station’s Chief Post Office building is likely to be removed within the next fortnight and fixed by a specialist clock repairer in Auckland.

Once it’s received its internal makeover, the clock will be safely stored before being reinstated at the completion of the CRL construction works at Britomart Station.

The clock was not an original feature of the CPO. Costing £321 and 10 shillings, the dual-faced Magneta clock was added to the Lower Queen Street facade on 4 July 1938. The Auckland Star newspaper heralded it a “handsome addition to Auckland’s timepieces”.

It appears not to have been the most reliable of time-keepers, having often displayed the wrong time or stopped working altogether. National Library records show it refused to work when initially “owing to the hands being out of balance and to the failure of the mechanism to synchronise with that of numerous other small clocks on the same electrically controlled system throughout the CPO building”.

Above: CPO clock undergoing inspection this week. Right: Installation in 1938.

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Three companies approved for linewide systems tender Three companies have been shortlisted to tender for linewide systems integration, testing and commissioning for the CRL. They are John Holland NZ Ltd, Laing O’Rourke Australia Construction Pty Ltd and RCR Infrastructure (New Zealand) Ltd. There were eight international expressions of interest in the contract seven (C7) work and CRL project director Chris Meale said it was great to see breadth of competition from credible companies showing interest in the contract seven (C7) work.

The three selected companies will now have about three months to tender and following evaluation the successful company is likely to be appointed in the last quarter of this year. The first focus will be on design development for optimal value and efficiency.

The contract will be for the systems that include tracks, power systems, communications, controls, ventilation and signalling from Britomart, through the CRL and connecting to the western line at Mt Eden Station.

Valerie completes pipe-jack work Valerie – the CRL tunnel-boring machine named after New Zealand’s world champion shotputter Dame Valerie Adams – was pulled out of the Wellesley Street reception shaft at the end of April after completing her 500-metre pipejack journey under Albert Street.

Valerie’s job was to simultaneously excavate and install a new stormwater main 18 metres between Swanson and Wellesley Streets, 10 metres to the east of the original pipe, to allow the CRL tunnels to be constructed without interference to the stormwater system. The new two-metre-diameter pipe also provides future-proofing of Auckland’s stormwater capacity.

A smaller TBM has also been travelling under the Albert and Victoria Street intersection, creating a temporary diversion for the Orakei Main Sewer. The diversion will be in place for approximately three months while the original sewer line is strengthened ahead of future Aotea Station works.

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