28 | REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Base Excavations T T Russell Fredric Broad scope of services on offer Base Excavations’ clients can be assured of a high standard of health and safety for all work undertaken. “We predominantly do driveways, house-pad digouts and small commercial projects, so a big bulk earthwork project was good to showcase what we are capable of doing.” Richmond business Base Excavations Ltd is proving to be a nimble operator with the capacity to handle larger projects as well as light residential work. The company is owned and run by Dan Jamieson and his partner Laura Thornborrow who, with Dan as a director and its previous manager, bought the company outright in 2022. “When Dan started with the company in 2017, he and his previous business partner started building it until it became what it was when we bought it,” Laura says. “He worked really hard on broadening our client base and the kind of work we do, so it wasn’t just the one-trick-pony just doing concrete preparation work.” The concrete groundwork undertaken by Base Excavations includes preparing residential house sites and driveways, but its services have expanded in both the volume and variety, including larger commercial contracts. This versatility is reflected in Base Excavations’ fleet; it operates excavators of 1.7 to 13 tonnes, some of which have laser equipment for ensuring the accuracy of levels and gradients, a Bobcat skid steer machine, four trucks and one trailer. “Basically we do anything from digging small trenches to drainage up to large-scale commercial projects.” Base Excavations’ clients can be assured of a high standard of health and safety for all work undertaken. Base Excavations has SiteWise Gold accreditation and engages an independent consultant, who provides training, support, reviews, facilitates meetings and site-specific requirements. Early last year, the company completed a contract to create eight hatchery ponds for SpatNZ, which is aiming to upscale its breeding of high-value green-lipped mussels in a controlled environment. Each pond is about 670 cubic metres and 1.5 metres deep. Base Excavations likely won the tender for the contract as a result of previous work it completed on the same site, Dan says. “While we were there, SpatNZ asked us to tender for [the hatchery pond] project.” While it was the first time Base Excavations had undertaken work of that scale, it was well- equipped to successfully complete it. “It involved stripping off the top soil and then we cut and filled, dug out the ponds and used the fill material to build the bunds, and then we re-spread the top soil on the bottom and the tops of the bunds.” Dan was pleased to have the opportunity to showcase the company’s capability, both in terms of its machinery and the skill of its operators, especially given the earthworks were undertaken with survey pegs and with no GPS equipment involved. “We predominantly do driveways, housepad dig-outs and small commercial projects, so a big bulk earthwork project was good to showcase what we are capable of doing.” This focus on diversifying Base Excavations’ operations continues – the company recently added an excavator-based vegetation mulcher to its line-up of equipment, for lifestyle block, farm maintenance and any other areas needing clearing or tidying. “Our mulcher makes short work of overgrown vegetation and foliage, including grass, scrub, gorse, blackberry, broom and other noxious weeds and we can arrange for disposal of any unwanted foliage,” says Dan. Services include tidying or clearing boundary fence lines and farm tracks, hillside gorse removal and blackberry mulching and vegetation removal from roadside verges. We get rid of mess that causes you stress 027 944 4622 quality_automotive@xtra.co.nz 9 Poutama Street, Richmond www.qualityautomotive.co.nz OIL CHANGE/SERVICE | TUNE UPS, BRAKES | TIMING BELTS WOF REPAIRS | ENGINE & DRIVELINE REPLACEMENTS | BATTERIES SUSPENSION | TOW BARS & ENGINE | VEHICLE DIAGNOSTICS OUR SERVICES We have professional and experienced workers CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS & BUSINESS ADVISORS A full range of accounting and nancial services to meet the ever-changing needs of your business. Monthly Accounting Annual Accounting Compliance Work Financial Statements GST Tax Support Business Coaching Business Start-ups Level 1, 18 New Street, Nelson | 03 548 8708 info@ hca.co.nz | frenchlastharris.co.nz Your trusted provider of quality and timely vehicle/machinery repairs and servicing in the Nelson area. Proudly Supporting Base Excavations nelsontruckrepairs.co.nz 03 5473 712
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