Webb Block including Dam

Developing a vineyard yields fruit

PROJECT: Webb Block including Dam CONTRACTOR: Isaac Construction CLIENT: Delegat VALUE: $1.9m

Isaac Construction proved that the confidence put in them by Delegat, to be its direct negotiated construction partner a few years prior, was the right decision.

After a 100,000 m3 HDPE lined water storage dam, a 16m span bridge, major re-contouring earthworks, flowing stream realignments, stop bank upgrade, infiltration trench, services (including powerlines), SH63 sealed new entranceways, deep GPS grape row ripping, internal vineyard roading and armour rock scour protection including three major adjacent Wairua River groynes and three large box culverts, Delegat had a new vineyard block ready to start planting in October 2020.

“Our management and teams’ capability demonstrated on this job has led us to have a firmly cemented and strong relationship that we will carry forward into more directly negotiated works with Delegat. For $2m our client got an immense value for money and the grapes were planted in time so that the client will get a return in two rather than three years. If we missed the seasonal planting window by even a matter of weeks, the grapes would take three years to yield fruit. The final result is a fully developed and very smart looking 90-hectare vineyard worthy of recognition.”