June 2010
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Pictured: Aerial view of Achilles Point, St Heliers, Auckland.
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Tonkin & Taylor was delighted to be part of the team awarded the 2010 Ingenium Excellence Award for the ‘Achilles Point Redevelopment project’ in St Heliers, Auckland.
The Ingenium Excellence Awards are presented annually to New Zealand organisations for public infrastructure projects. The Achilles Point project team was presented with the ‘Winners’ Award for projects under $2 million’ at a special awards dinner held in Christchurch on 12 June.
The winning team included Auckland City Council – Transport Delivery Group (client), Isthmus Group Ltd (landscape architect), Brian Perry Civil Ltd (head contractor) and Tonkin & Taylor (consultant).
The redevelopment project included cliff-top stabilisation utilising palisade pile wall construction with ground anchors and tie-backs, a timber boardwalk platform, a cantilevered lookout viewing structure embarking out from the cliff edge, a memorial stone wall, timber seating, paved areas and landscaping.
The existing memorial to WWII veterans of HMS Achilles was reinstated to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the ‘Battle of the River Plate’ on 13 December 2009. Significance to local iwi of the old pa site nearby was also recognised on the 13th with the erection of three totara pou whenua on the boardwalk platform.
The Ingenium Awards Judges believe the Achilles Point project “demonstrates how sound engineering practice can not only provide protection to vital community assets but can be used to enhance an important historic site. By balancing requirements of a number of stakeholders the project team was able to design and construct a facility that provides an attractive long term access to a difficult viewpoint in a manner sympathetic to the site.”
For more information please contact Geoff Radley.
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