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Brian Perry Civil
CATEGORY 1B: Projects with a value of less than $5 million (Company turnover greater than $10 million)
PROJECT: Hamilton Water Treatment Plant. CONTRACTOR: Brian Perry Civil
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The city of Hamilton abstracts raw water from only one source – the Waikato River. In recent years, lower river levels and climate change have threatened water supply.
The project involves a floating platform and pump system that pumps water into the Waikato’s intake structure if river levels get too low. This has the benefit of not only dealing with present supply challenges, but can be used during the future $26 million project to lower and rebuild the city’s intake structure.
The Hamilton community gets the financial benefit of not having to spend $26 million now, while still managing current risk and building a piece of infrastructure vital to the longterm rebuild project.
The resulting $1.5 million design and build programme was awarded to Brian Perry Civil (Fletcher Construction).
BPC deployed the floating platform into the river using design and methodologies very different from what had been tendered. A complex project, health and safety drivers led to an overhaul in the construction methodology as parts of the project were fraught with safety risks.
The client had to make that a huge priority in its planning – turning a weakness into one of the project’s successes. For health and safety aspects, it scored a 92 percent ‘Excellent’ rating by the Hamilton City Council health and safety assessments.
Furthermore, in developing design and construction solutions around crane lift and platform, costs were controlled.
Intensive testing and modelling of the structure, environmental management, and close collaboration with the client led to a successful delivery, and to a safer and more productive build, and reduced the risk to Hamilton City’s water supply from low river levels.
The project began in July 2015, and was completed in August 2016, falling within the revised deadline. It also came in under budget by $750,000 and immediately opened further opportunities for the Brian Perry Civil team, which has since been awarded the contract to deploy the pump platform over the next four years for the client. l
