CCNZ / HIREPOOL CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2015
Hamilton’s Holy Trinity
a collaboration of client, contractor and consultant Infrastructure Alliance, a partnership between Downer New Zealand, Hamilton City Council and supply chain partners, is proving that a new way of doing business is also smarter business.
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CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2015
WINNER CATEGORY 5
PROJECT: Maintenance, renewals and management of Hamilton City Council’s council-owned assets. CONTRACTOR: Infrastructure Alliance
46 Civil Contractors NZ in association with Contractor magazine
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nfrastructure Alliance (IA), an unincorporated joint venture with its own identity, is leading the way in asset management, collaboration and innovation. Tasked with a scope of services covering maintenance, renewals and management of all Hamilton City Council’s (HCC) council-owned transportation assets, IA’s collaborative working agreement sees client, contractor and consultant all rolled into one. A key function of IA is the coordination of all third party works (eg, utility operators) to ensure that projects are delivered in a single intervention; reducing disruption to customers. Work includes, but is not limited to, pavement, drainage, streetlights, footpaths, roadmarking, kerb and channel, traffic signals and electronic signs. It is also responsible for amenity works including street sweeping, CBD and shopping centre cleaning, litter removal, vegetation control and landscaping maintenance. Lastly, IA also performs the regulatory function of traffic management coordination, and corridor access requests. Having now been in action for nearly two years IA has already achieved significant savings – all of which have been reinvested back into the network. Not bad when the project has an annual
