The New Zealand International Convention Centre will be New Zealand’s pre-eminent event venue when it opens, drawing audiences from around the globe to experience this country’s unique culture, unforgettable landscapes and innovative business approach to create a truly world-class facility. Fletcher Construction will build and complete the design of the NZICC that has a 32,000m² floor space above the 1327 carparks, the five-star, 300-room Horizon Hotel, the retail laneway linking Nelson and Hobson streets, the two air bridges and the state-of-art fit out of both facilities.

This construction site contains one of New Zealand’s largest commercial  and most complex sites and it brings with it numerous technical challenges. One of them was to find a way to complete demolition and excavation works, while maintaining an access road through the middle of the construction site to service an underground carpark. After the completion of excavation the site has installed the country’s biggest tower cranes and concrete pumping towers to service this massive site. As construction reached the final stages of structural completion, a few major challenges had to be resolved. These involved the construction and sequencing of the Spine Gallery (top down structure hanging from the roof) and the fabrication, transportation and erection of the Hobson Street Bridge, that is a 32m long, 150t bridge, which will be sitting over Hobson Street once installed. The presentation will take the attendee through all stages of construction and will highlight and discuss the most interesting temporary works challenges and solutions.

Key Takeaways/Learnings
 

• What are temporary works and how are they applied on construction projects?
   
• Learn about construction methodologies and unique temporary works solutions
• Learn about thought process behind temporary works solutions and why certain elements are preferred over others
• How risk assessment plays part during design and execution of temporary works

Speaker

Barnabas Ilko is a Chartered Professional Engineer with post-graduation work experience gained in consulting, construction, heavy engineering, resources industry and ship building. During this time, he worked on tender phase support, through to development of detailed temporary works designs, construction staging and interpreting specifications and drawings on site with construction personnel. During this time in the industry he worked on major infrastructure, deep basements, temporary/permanent retentions, materials placing equipment, lifting equipment, propping/shoring of various structural elements and many other temporary works items.
 

Through these years of experience working with contractors and stakeholders on developing safe and effective construction methodologies Barnabas learned from industry experts how to identify temporary works, risks associated with them and how to mitigate/manage them.