Setting up for success

BPC’s General Manager Andrew Burgess joined NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, Ashburton District Council, mana whenua, and the local community to break ground on the Second Ashburton Bridge project.

We’ve worked alongside our clients and designers during the Early Contractor Involvement stage to conduct detailed constructability reviews, refined staging to minimise disruption, and identified opportunities to simplify the design and reduce temporary works. Early procurement and early geotechnical investigations have helped lock in programme certainty and keep the project moving at pace. “It’s the kind of early thinking that sets the project up for success long before construction begins,” Andrew says.

Since late last year, our team from across BPC, Fletcher Construction, and Higgins has been on site completing early works and working with local sub-contractors to begin pre-fabricating essential bridge elements.

The project will deliver a new bridge across the Ashburton River Hakatere, safer intersections, a walking and cycling link, and a new 1.6km watermain to support future growth. It’s a significant investment in resilience for Canterbury and the wider South Island and BPC is proud to be helping to make it possible.