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MAINTENANCE & MANAGEMENT OF ASSETS
Keeping GDC’s water safe PROJECT: Gisborne District Council Operation & Maintenance of Services
for Water, Wastewater and Stormwater Services CONTRACTOR: Fulton Hogan CLIENT: Gisborne District Council VALUE: $4.3m Gisborne District Council’s Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, and Land, Rivers and Coastal systems network services 35,000 water users in Gisborne and has two water treatment plants and one wastewater treatment plant; 1680kms of pipe network; 50 pump stations; 42,229 service connections; 1531 hydrants; 2948 manholes; 300km open drains/streams/creeks; and 54 in-drain structures. Fulton Hogan has held the Operation and Maintenance of Services contract for this network since 1998, with a seven-year extension until October 2026, awarded in recognition of excellent performance. If ever a contract disproved the saying ‘familiarity breeds contempt’ it is this. Over the years the relationship has got ever closer and inter-operable, evidenced, in part, by Fulton Hogan assuming the DCC’s Land, Rivers and Coast team into its team and sourcing wastewater treatment plant operators for the GDC – and in various technological and service initiatives. Fulton Hogan operates and maintains the reticulation system, renewals and
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Fulton Hogan team winning at CCNZ Hawkes Bay East Coast Awards, November 2021. Left to right: Hayden Houthuijzen, Alan Ledger, Adrian van Zyl, Tane Tamanui
capital projects; ensuring compliance with resource consents and with the NZDWS. General services include: responding to callouts, customer service requests and SCADA alarms; asset and network performance monitoring; asset condition reporting; taking and reporting water meter readings; and backflow preventer testing with an approved IQP. Subcontractors provide specialist services such as electrical, SCADA, pest control and odour cartridge supply and recycling.
CONSTRUCTION EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2022 CCNZ / HIREPOOL
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