Transmission Gully Channel Drains

TG Channel Drains – The Hidden Complexity

PROJECT: Transmission Gully Channel Drains CONTRACTOR: PCL Contracting CLIENT: CPB HEB joint venture VALUE: $1.7m

Transmission Gully’s “issues” have been well-documented.

The reality for the contractors involved led to problems and delays no one could have anticipated. As a result, the client and consultant to PCL – CPB and HEB – took on what was to become one of the most talked about pieces of Infrastructure in New Zealand’s history.

PCL Contracting was just a small part in this process, but the challenges it faced were also unprecedented.

The delivery and “light-bulb moment” innovations enabled this part of the works – 1.9 kms of channel drain, 1900 individual drains, each weighing 85 kgs per section – to be done safely, efficiently and in the last push, expediently.

Installation design, H & S Programme and budget were all met outstandingly in a six-month programme spanning three years from August 2018 to August 2021 (refer “problems and delays” above), while still maintaining a profit above that initially priced.

“Credit has to go to the teams that performed the work on the ground and the extra hours they worked, day and night, on weekends, to meet the timeframes. Without the culture the team has across all areas of the business, we wouldn’t have been able to do it.”