Social Housing Project

Description

Right Hire successfully delivered all civil contracting works for this pioneering, landmark project: papakainga (social housing) complex for Nga Hau e Wha Marae in Wainoni, Christchurch, prising six three-bedroom housing units and two modern kitchens to service the Marae and the new Kitchen training school. This project is a landmark project, the first of its kind in the South island, and funded by an alliance of Te Puni Kokiri, the Rata Foundation, and others.

Specification

Right Hire carried out all civil works for this important project, including:

• Review of site information, topographical survey and engineering design plans, to plan and deliver site-specific civil methodology
• All site preparation works, including establishment, temporary works, earthworks, excavation and filling, subgrade preparation for building foundations and pavements and driveways, and installation of all infrastructure and services including three waters, utilities and gas and connections to existing reticulation
• Full civil finished works including landscaping and planting, fencing, and paved surfaces for footpaths, driveways and transport corridors.
• Site management including safety and environmental management
• Managing testing, compliance inspections, and securing all final approvals required to satisfy consenting authorities, including manging quality assurance documentation.

Additional

The work was delivered within a live site with ongoing operations around the work site, requiring careful planning of works to ensure safety, project progress, and coordination. Right Hire worked very closely and proactively with Marae leadership and a large number of stakeholders to minimise impact of the construction works on nearby residents and affected stakeholders, and to ensure the highest levels of worker and public safety.

Right Hire provided exceptional civil services, working in seamlessly with the deconstruction and building construction phases, to deliver a superb result, to the agreed programme and within the agreed budget.