In line with its goal of sending zero waste to landfill by 2040, Auckland Council is redeveloping the Waitākere Transfer Station as a resource recovery park. Cassidy Construction won the tender for the Stage 1 civil works on the peninsula behind the existing facility, a contract that involved large-scale earthworks and drainage, 5000m2 of concrete and asphalt pavements, and the erection and fit-out of two sales sheds and a workshop with a combined slab area of 1800m2.
Working on the site of an old landfill and adjacent to a live transfer station posed potential health and safety risks, but these were managed via careful planning and application of controls such as exclusion zones, asbestos specialist supervision and gas monitoring. More than 800m3 of contaminated material was wrapped and removed from site.
Embracing the spirit of resource recovery, our team enjoyed the creative challenge of repurposing wood, joinery, plumbing fixtures and even surfboards from the transfer station’s onsite shop in the fit-out of the new buildings. In alignment with Cassidy’s Building Positive Change goal to divert 40 percent of site waste from landfill, all waste produced during the job was separated and processed on-site.
In line with its goal of sending zero waste to landfill by 2040, Auckland Council is redeveloping the Waitākere Transfer Station as a resource recovery park. Cassidy Construction won the tender for the Stage 1 civil works on the peninsula behind the existing facility, a contract that involved large-scale earthworks and drainage, 5000m2 of concrete and asphalt pavements, and the erection and fit-out of two sales sheds and a workshop with a combined slab area of 1800m2.
Working on the site of an old landfill and adjacent to a live transfer station posed potential health and safety risks, but these were managed via careful planning and application of controls such as exclusion zones, asbestos specialist supervision and gas monitoring. More than 800m3 of contaminated material was wrapped and removed from site.
Embracing the spirit of resource recovery, our team enjoyed the creative challenge of repurposing wood, joinery, plumbing fixtures and even surfboards from the transfer station’s onsite shop in the fit-out of the new buildings. In alignment with Cassidy’s Building Positive Change goal to divert 40 percent of site waste from landfill, all waste produced during the job was separated and processed on-site.
