24 | Key infrastructure work The company has been involved in many key infrastructure projects in and around Dunedin. T T from page 22 Hall Bros Transport REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT One of the larger projects is Otago Regional Council’s $5 million upgrade of the contour channel flood bank on the Taieri plain near Mosgiel. The existing contour channel is part of the Lower Taieri scheme that provides flood protection and water conveyance to the Waipori Pump station. The scheme protects 7,300 hectares of highly productive agricultural land surrounding communities and Dunedin International Airport during high rainfall events. Operations manager Marcus Bulger says another large project in which Hall Bros was a subcontractor to Downers, was the construction of the shared footpath and seawall in Otago Harbour from St Leonards to Port Chalmers. The new infrastructure features numerous retaining walls, the largest 200-metres long and up to 4.5 metres high in places. Opened August last year, it provides a safe pathway for pedestrians and cyclists using the busy State Highway 88 road link between Dunedin and Port Chalmers. “It was a reasonably big undertaking. We undertook very large reclamation works and rocked the face of the seawall as well as constructing footpaths. Because we had the pontoon excavator, we were able to drive [steel] pile casings for the boardwalk section of path.” Marcus says. “It’s a multi-purpose machine where you can drive casings and posts as well as sheet piles.” Hall Bros has also completed some sheet piling for Dunedin’s major George Street redevelopment as a subcontractor to Isaac Construction, plus it will soon be providing sheet piling on the Dunedin Hospital outpatients construction site. The company is very proud to have a significant role in the construction of Dunedin’s new state-of-the-art ACC building which will provide 8000 square metres of office space for close to 650 staff over four stories when it opens next year. “We worked for Smith Crane and Construction for the enabling work package. This involved large-scale contaminated ground removal, some was asbestos effected which Salmac Insulation assisted us with. We are now working with Naylor Love doing the foundation work and all the site works for the new building.” Hall Bros Transport is owned by Doug Hall who has had a strong interest in minimising waste through recycling ever since he started the business, originally with his brother, Tom, about thirty years ago. Dunedin’s civic Materials Recovery Facility for kerbside recycling was built on land owned by one of Doug’s companies, Anzide Properties, which also owns properties Hall Bros and its sister companies operates from. Hall Bros first started recycling during the company’s first major job as a subcontractor to Fletchers who had the contract to relocate part of State Highway 1 through Dunedin Botanic Garden. “That was our first look into recycling and then we bought the building off Steel & Tube in Fryatt Street, and we turned that into a recycle centre so that when we did demolition jobs, we stripped all the buildings out and marketed all that stuff,” Doug says. “We could see added value in everything we did.” Hall Bros also recycles asphalt, concrete and hardfill which is repurposed and used as base material in many of its construction projects, including for Dunedin City Council footpaths During the early years of the business, having well-established relationships with key people who could vouch for him was a big factor in gaining work, Doug says, while its reputation also grew due to his knack for having an efficient approach to each job and thinking outside the square. He cites an example of being given a week to do a large site clearing job, but Doug had this plus another related job done in day each without compromising on the quality of the result. “From then on, the company just expanded because we just looked at things so different to everybody else. Efficiency was what built the companies.” A further driver was making local clients the priority and not chasing distant work, especially when major construction projects such as the Otago Corrections Facility build at Milton and the Christchurch earthquakes rebuild arose, Doug says. “Our company grew massively over that time. It’s the relationships that builds everything.” www.adamsnz.com - Book Online Now! Dunedin 03 477 0077 Central Otago 03 445 4916 Hall Bros Transport PLUMBING • DRAINAGE • ELECTRICAL • GAS FITTING SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS EASILY
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