Resolve Group is part of the team developing an Integrated Traffic Management Strategy as part of an Auckland Motorway Alliance Special Project to manage the impacts of construction along Auckland’s North-Western Motorway. This massive roading construction, worth around $2B, is being delivered through five successive contracts – including the Waterview Connection – all due for completion by 2017.

Led by the Resolve Group team, including Tim Brown and Sharon Wilder, the first stage of this strategy delivered significant benefits using the “One Network” approach to identify and implement small scale measures to improve performance and public transport priority on the motorway, ramps and local roads.

The second stage of the project is to canvass a range of treatments effective in mitigating impacts, whilst maintaining the ability for Contracts to continue as planned through to their completion.

Michael Kwok and Rob Lorden gave a presentation at the Auckland Transport Infrastructure Forum, held at the end of November. The forum’s focus was on ways Auckland Council, Auckland Transport management, contractors, public transport service providers, consultants, construction companies, Auckland businesses and academics can work towards the planning, implementation, management and achievement of the best possible transport outcomes for Auckland.

Their presentation, on Intelligent Procurement, analysed the latest innovative and imaginative procurement models and assessed which worked best for different types of work. It also explored the ways in which the client can think creatively in terms of procurement based on obtaining successful outcomes, while avoiding legal ramifications. They drew particularly on their experiences of Early Contractor Involvement contracts and looked at how Intelligent Procurement can be used to improve procurement processes for professional services and physical works contracts.