| 5 Future Accommodation Project The redevelopment addresses long-standing accommodation pressures across Parliament, where ministers, MPs, and staff have been spread across multiple offices. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 021 778 829 | tonysullivan@outlook.com Capacity and experience 4PlusFive is playing a key role in the Government’s Future Accommodation project in Wellington, delivering large-scale excavation and civil works that underpin one of the capital’s most signi cant new builds. Managing director Tony Sullivan says the project has provided the Upper Hutt–based civil construction rm with the opportunity to showcase both its technical capability and its trademark straight-up, professional approach. Tony, a senior civil engineering professional with more than 35 years’ industry experience, says 4PlusFive was contracted by LT McGuinness to complete all excavation and civil work for the new development. The scope included extensive bulk earthworks and placement of base course, with the team to return later in the build to prepare for paving and walkways. “This has been a really good project for us because of the volume of material involved,” Tony says. “We moved about 35,000 cubic metres to form the basement. It’s a large structure with drive-in parking, so we were digging out right to the piles.” 4PlusFive has a long-standing relationship with LT McGuinness, and Tony says working under a main contractor known for its professionalism and reliability is a major advantage. “We’ve worked together on a lot of projects. They run signi cant and innovative builds, they’re great to deal with, and they always pay on time. When you’re working with an established company like that, you look after them, and they keep you involved in good projects.” While the Future Accommodation project has progressed well overall, weather created predictable complications. Excavation occurred through one of the wettest Octobers Tony has seen, with the basement hole repeatedly lling with up to a metre of water. “We were constantly dealing with water ingress. You’ve got strict testing criteria for compacting material and when you’re working in rain, you just have to keep going until the material meets those limits. It took a bit longer, but it stayed on programme which is always good.” Tony says the nished building will be an iconic wooden structure of six levels, and the team is proud to contribute to its foundations. Crews worked weekends when required, maintaining the company’s strong reputation for effort, loyalty, and straight talking. 4PlusFive was founded in 2012 by two couples, taking a small team and a single truck and digger into business after a previous company closed. The name re ects the four original shareholders and their ve children, symbolising the family culture that remains central to the business. The company now operates nine diggers, a eet of trucks, rollers and graders, and two depots in Upper Hutt, where it also stores materials from its demolition projects. Current work includes signi cant site-works for Te Papa’s new purpose-built Upper Hutt laboratory, another LT McGuinness project that Tony says re ects the same level of innovation and national importance as the Future Accommodation build. He says securing repeat work from major contractors is a direct result of 4PlusFive’s honesty- rst approach and the consistency of its team.
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