The safety of road users is a daily concern for the transportation engineers of Resolve Group and we are always pleased to be involved in projects that contribute to improvements in safety outcomes.

For the last eight months, Resolve Group’s Hussam Rassol has been providing day-to-day Project Management services on behalf of Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency for one of the most dangerous routes in the North Island, Dome Valley. This 17km corridor of State Highway 1 between Wellsford and Warkworth is windy with poor visibility and steep slopes, and has contributed to five deaths and 25 serious injuries between 2015 and 2019.

The project began in September 2019 and is being delivered in five stages as part of the government’s Road to Zero programme. Stages Two and Four are already complete, and stages Three and Five will be completed shortly. Stage One is being re-scoped with physical works expected to start in October 2022. The work consists of:

  • Installing flexible median safety barriers to prevent head-on crashes and creating a wide centreline so there’s more space between oncoming vehicles
  • Installing semi-rigid W-section side barriers at location where there are safety hazards that requires protections
  • Making road shoulders wider so it’s safer to pull over, if needed
  • Adding two new right-turn bays to make it safer to turn
  • Replacing the north- and south-bound passing lanes with a wide shoulder so slow vehicles have room to pull over

With more than 12,000 vehicles travelling this route on any given day, this is considered a critical project that will prevent, on average, at least four people from dying or receiving serious injuries each year.

Baggage Handling System & Work Package Two

 

As an island nation, we are dependent on, and made vulnerable by, our international logistic, trade, travel and transport links. As engineers, Resolve Group have an ongoing personal and professional interest in building and maintaining quality sustainable infrastructure that keeps these routes viable and effective. With this professional goal in mind we continue to seek work in this sector and for several years now, we have worked in partnership with the Auckland International Airport Limited (AIAL) to deliver a number of small but significant projects that are part of a larger, very significant, re-development programme for the domestic and international terminals.

In January this year, we started two contracts: a piece of work on the Baggage Handling System (BHS) as the Engineer to the Contract (EtC) and Engineer’s Representative (ERep) for the refurbishment/replacement of the Baggage Handling System in the International Terminal; Work Package 2 enabling works, where we are the EtC and ERep for the relocations and demo works for various office spaces in the International Terminal to make way for the future Work Package 2 (WP2) works. These two contracts are expected to last two to three years.

Work Package 4, a third contract awarded in 2022, is slated to begin within the next few weeks to provide (Unsure of scope for this one).  Resolve will serve as the EtC and ERep.

Work Package 6, the relocation of the Eastern Airfield Building, began in March.

Fuel Diversion is a series of separable portions that has been underway for over a year and is tasked with improving/upgrading the existing fuel system as well as providing a new resiliency line across the airfield.

Resolve Group has also provided EtC, ERep and Project Management coverage to a series of AIAL maintenance projects including airfield security fencing replacement, taxiway and runway pavement renewal/replacement contracts and airbridge replacements.