| 69 DEVELOPMENT Anderson Park Anderson Park subdivision is located close to a host of community amenities such as the Waikanae swimming Pool, rugby fields, squash club, Kapakapanui School and Waikanae Park.. Award-winning Kapiti irmMills Albert Ltd is leading the way with a sustainable approach to drainlaying and civil construction. The company is a family-owned contracting and forestry business operating within the North Island. It provides a wide range of services that include drainlaying, Gabion construction and rock supply and general contracting. The team includes registered drain-layers and water reticulation installers that are experienced in pipe installation. They provide drainage solutions for the Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency, local councils and sub-divisional developments. Mills Albert supplies large diameter rock, suitable for rip rap retaining systems in streams, rivers and coastal protection. These rocks are also supplied to various individuals and companies for landscaping. The irm is also experienced in the supply and placement of rock in rip rap structures and revetments for river and coastal protection. It also supplies and delivers graded stone for use in gabion baskets andmattresses used in various structures. We have a team that is well skilled in the construction of these structures. The irm’s skill sets in the civil works have included work for aged care providers Ryman Healthcare and Presbyterian Support Central. Directors David Mills and Lisa Mills-Albert actively work in the company, with David in varying roles and Lisa overseeing accounts and administration. Working on the Anderson Park subdivsion required a ive-man teammade up of supervisor, machine operator, drainlayer, Kapiti civil construction irmleading theway in sustainable practices truck driver, labourer. Machines include 40T excavator for sheet piling, 15T excavator for mains drain laying, 5T excavator for smaller lateral works, 10T trucks for spoil removal and aggregate supply and various pieces of compact ion equipment. The company had a good relationship with the developer, with Mills Albert always going over and above the call of duty to keep our clients happy. The team’s e orts were rewarded recently when the irmwon the 2023 Electra Business and Innovation Award. Sustainability is at the forefront of the irm’s values, and they have been involved in the urban-rural partnerships for equal change movement facilitated by Our Land andWater NZ that fosters a shared responsibility approach to environmental change. They increased their leet of hybrid vehicles to over ive, including the purchase of a diesel electric D7E bulldozer in 2022 which is 30 per cent more fuel e icient than its predecessor. The team is particularly proud of implementing a storage site at Otaihanga for the reuse of products between jobs. An example includes a job completed last year at Poets Park in Upper Hutt where they stripped 1400m3 of topsoil for hardstand areas, excavated 2300m3 of material for garden hollows and reused it onsite for building raised garden features and covering disestablished hardstand areas. The only material taken o site was scrapmetal and other rubbish. In addition, over 46,000 plants were planted, o setting the project carbons emissions within ive years.
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