Karangahape Community Liaison Group Meeting 9 July 2019
Agenda • Introduction to the Link Alliance • Upcoming utility investigation and relocation works • Preparation of draft management plans for those utility works • Link Alliance works in other locations • Wider project update
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Introductions •
Dale Burtenshaw, Deputy Alliance Director
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Hugh Leersnyder, Environment, Sustainability & Planning Manager
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Rachel Blundell, Senior Communications & Stakeholder Manager
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Sonya Leahy, Stakeholder Communications Manager
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Aidan Kirkby-McLeod, Senior Planner
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Mark Anderson, Utilities Manager
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Jonathan Hill, Karangahape Station Construction Manager
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Introducing the Link Alliance • Alliance model often used to deliver complex and challenging projects • Promotes innovation and flexibility and helps drive value for money, as companies equally share the gains and the pains involved in delivery
• Link Alliance partners: • Construction: Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Soletanche Bachy International NZ and Downer NZ • Design: AECOM, Tonkin+Taylor, WSP Opus • CRL Limited
• International team with local experience - spanning rail projects in
Hong Kong, Singapore, Qatar, Egypt and Auckland’s own Waterview Tunnel
• Knowledge transfer – staff with C1/C2 experience teaming with embedded CRL staff
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The Link Alliance - delivering Auckland’s first underground
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Overview programme (all dates approximate) Key Milestones
2019
2020
2021
Enabling works, including utilities, demolition
Q3
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Q3
Mt Eden Station
Q4
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Karangahape Station
Aotea Station
Testing and commissioning
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2023
2024
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Q1
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Q1
Q2
Q4
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What’s happening right now? • Alliance mobilisation at a temporary office in Ellerslie • Negotiating PAA with CRL Ltd • Preparing material for communication and engagement about enabling works
• Planning and preparation for early works • Recruitment and staffing • Preparation of management plans for consenting • Establishing interfaces with K Road Enhancements Project, C2 contract, C5 & C7 contracts
Karangahape Station’s Mercury Lane entrance
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What’s happening first in the Karangahape area? • Utility investigations – Beresford Square and corner of Mercury Lane & Cross St – Aug 2019
• Utility relocations – Beresford Sq/Pitt St & Mercury Ln/Cross St – late 2019
• Closure of Beresford Square – late 2019 onwards • Asbestos testing in Mercury Lane & East St buildings to be demolished – July to Sept 2019
• Asbestos removal and soft-strip/salvage – Sept to Dec 2019
• Site establishment in Beresford Square (former Wilson’s carpark) – Oct 2019
• Demolition of buildings (in red zone) – approx. Dec 2019 to Q1 2020
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Location of utility investigations in Beresford Square & Mercury Lane – August 2019
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Tree and toilet demolition – planned for September 2019
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Utility relocations in Pitt Street area – planned October to December 2019
Road closed to traffic
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Utility relocations – Beresford Square & Pitt Street – December 2019 to January 2020
Road closed to traffic
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Potential utility relocation – subject to station design confirmation – Feb to Mar 2020
Road closed to traffic
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Potential utility relocation – subject to station design confirmation – Feb to Mar 2020
Road closed to traffic
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Utility relocations – Mercury Lane – October to December 2019
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Utility relocations – other side of Mercury Lane – December 2019 to February 2020
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Managing utility relocations • We appreciate that utility diversions will be noisy and disruptive and will work to manage negative impacts as much as practicably possible.
• Beresford Square will need to be closed to traffic
to enable us to undertake the relocations quickly and safely. It will then remain closed, as this is the site of the Beresford Square entrance of the future Karangahape Station.
Beresford exit
• Property access will be maintained. However,
there may be times when we need to liaise with you about the timing of works directly outside your premises to minimise disruption, i.e. weekends or evenings.
View to station entrance from Cross St 18
Managing utility diversions
View towards Beresford Square from Pitt St
• Pedestrians may need to be re-routed around works on the footpath.
• We will use water-filled barriers and temporary fencing wherever possible to maintain visibility for businesses.
• A development response plan is being developed
to help mitigate the impacts of construction works on the local community. It will complement the DR plan currently in place for the K Road area to support businesses as much as practicably possible.
• This CLG will be an important avenue for receiving and giving feedback on the project and its management of construction impacts.
View down Mercury Lane to station entrance 19
Developing management plans for utility relocation works • A suite of management plans are required by
• We are aiming to provide summaries of the draft management plans to CLG members in mid-August and will then meet to discuss these with you.
• The management plans are developed by
• The subject matter experts who have drafted the plans will attend this CLG meeting so you can provide your feedback directly and ask any questions.
the CRL designation and the regional resource consent to manage the effects of construction. subject matter experts, covering such areas as: • Traffic, access and parking • Noise and vibration • Social impact and business disruption • Air quality • Contamination
• The plans will then be finalised before undergoing an independent peer review and lodgement with Auckland Council for final approval.
• Trees and vegetation
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Consultation to inform draft management plans • The plans outline how we will manage effects during the utility diversions – noise, dust, potential access and parking disruption, etc. • We need to understand how people could be affected so that the management plans we prepare are effective. • The preparation of the Social Impact & Business Disruption Delivery Work Plan and Site-Specific Construction Noise & Vibration Management Plans will involve direct engagement with those in close proximity to the works.
View up Mercury Lane to station entrance
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Communications & Engagement – managing impacts with care & consideration • Interface with connected projects - C1/C2 contract on Albert St & K Road enhancements project • Development Response – business packs and support • Community Liaison Groups • Working with Mana Whenua, Local Boards, Business Associations and Auckland Council • Campaigns for significant traffic switches for buses, cyclists and drivers • Activations/events • Hoardings • Construction updates • Meet the Alliance events
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What works are starting elsewhere on the CRL project this year? Albert Street (Wyndham St to Mayoral Drive)
• Utility investigations starting week of mid-late August – taking about a month to complete
• Utility diversions starting at Wyndham St end of
Albert St – completed in stages from end of August 2019 until mid 2020
• Seven canopy removals (various locations along Albert St and cnrs of Victoria & Wellesley) – December 2019 to Q2 2020
• Site establishment at Bledisloe carpark – Q4 2019 • Piling and D-wall construction for Aotea Station ground support – starts Q2 2020
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What works are starting elsewhere on the CRL project this year? Mt Eden
• Soft-strip & salvage work within the Mt Eden
demolition area – aiming for mid-July 2019 start (will take about 3 months)
• Temporary site office established July/Aug at 97 Mt Eden Rd (next to existing station ramp)
• Erection of hoardings around the demolition site – Aug 2019
• Asbestos removal – Aug to Oct 2019 • Demolitions – Sept 2019 to Q1 2020 (approx.) • Portal works – piling and ground retention for tunnel entrance – starts Dec 2019.
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C1 Britomart & Lower Queen St • Construction of tunnel base slabs underneath the CPO is
complete for both tunnels and onstruction of tunnel walls has commenced
• Construction of tunnel base slabs in Lower Queen St is
complete and construction of tunnel walls has commenced
• Preparatory works within station underway to allow
installation of an additional – fourth – escalator and replace the existing ones with metro grade escalators
• Half a million man hours on C1 with no lost time injuries • Minimal movement of CPO building and minimal effect on adjacent buildings
Lower Queen Street
The north tunnel – breaking through to Britomart Station
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Lower Queen St plaza – new design renders
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C2 Albert Street works update • Wyndham St has reopened after three years • Above-ground works have started, including
installation of new utility services, tree pit construction and new finished footpath and road carriageway
• Tunnel floors and walls are largely complete with only one more section of roof to be poured
• Tunnel box construction expected to be completed by July
• Canopy removals are underway
The north tunnel – breaking through to Britomart Station
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