44 | Bringing back vital connections Cyclone recovery projects required Lattey Group to provide quick and effective solutions for communities, which in many cases had been totally isolated by damage to their infrastructure. Hawke’s Bay: Lattey Group T T Kelly Deeks REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Specialising in the design, build, and installation of long-lasting, cost-effective, and precisely engineered bridge solutions, Lattey Group has been working on cyclone recovery projects, having built, rebuilt, or re-strengthened 20 Hawke’s Bay bridges, connecting rural communities to their homes, workplaces, and essential services. Lattey Group has been building infrastructural, capital, and community assets for near on 80 years. Building many of Hawke’s Bay’s bridges during the 1940s and 1950s, the company has always been proud of the way it has connected communities and enabled economic development throughout the region. A new, 4500sqm precast plant in Levin established in 2018 enabled Lattey Group to double its capacity with easier access to the lower North Island construction market, and the Lattey team to cast indoors, unaffected by the weather and with the help of two 30ton gantries. Now, Lattey Group also has new premises at Irongate, Hastings, with a purpose-built facility with precast manufacturing plant, a civil and support services building, and an office/administration space. This substantial, 4250sqm facility is energy-efficient, drawing on supplementary solar power for the hot-water curing process, while the saw-tooth roof design provides abundant natural light to the office spaces. Lattey Group business development manager Kieran Woodham says the company’s ability to find quicker and more effective ways of working has made it the infrastructure contractor of choice for many local government and private construction projects throughout New Zealand. Cyclone recovery projects required Lattey Group to provide quick and effective solutions for communities, which in many cases had been totally isolated by damage to their infrastructure. One project in particular, the Te Reinga bridge at Wairoa, had Lattey Group engaged to design and build a 100m long temporary bridge, which also incorporated a 42m Bailey bridge constructed by Downer, with a minimum supporting load of 100T to allow for construction of a new permanent bridge in the future. “This project was very time sensitive, with a high level of community pressure to provide access to the isolated Ruakituri community,” Kieran says. “With no bridge, up to 300 people were required to drive a two-hour detour in each direction to Wairoa.” The bridge location and terrain brought a high level of risk to this project. The structure was built more than six metres above ground level, and 200m upstream of a dangerous waterfall. This environment did not allow for construction to be completed within the river course way, so the bridge had to be built from one end to the other in a linear approach. To mitigate delays, planning and organisation by Lattey Group was critical. Several farm bridges have been built, rebuilt, or re-strengthened by Lattey Group since the cyclone. 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