National CCNZ Construction Excellence Awards 2022

Hamilton City Council's Peacocke Northern Transfer Mains Project is part of a wider programme of works to provide infrastructure for over 8,000 new homes over the next 30 years to accommodate expansion of Hamilton City.
The project provides two pressure mains of 630mm and 355mm diameter for about 5.5km along the busy Wairere Drive with associated tie-ins to existing operational infrastructure. Pipe depths vary up to 6m and include a mix of trenched and trenchless solutions, with traffic management, protection, relocation and replacement of existing underground and overhead services required.

The judges were most impressed by the collaboration and innovation shown by the contractor in initially providing a tender under budget for this lump sum contract and to also establish with the client an agreed set of project values, targets and objectives to define “what good looks like” for the project. Having done this, the contractor proposed and the client accepted, further value engineering proposals to bring the price down to a point where an additional $5M of work was able to be included within the original project budget while also providing better margin to the Contractor.

Other impressive achievements were:
- 200,000 manhours worked without incident
- Use of a cloud based business system providing current information to participants
- Proposal and acceptance of recycling opportunities to use available site materials and cheaper alternatives to those specified
- Adoption of Alliance type attitudes to achieve an exceptional outcome on a lump sum project
- Completion of the project almost a year earlier than tendered, offering a significant administration benefit to the client
- Client so impressed with the project outcome they engaged an external consultant to assess modification to procurement process and delivery to achieve similar results 

The judges congratulate CB Civil and their client Hamilton City Council for winning the Category 4 Hirepool Construction Excellence Award by collaborating to achieve a project outcome ahead of time, below budget and without incident - a rare and
almost unheard of outcome, in this current resource constrained environment.

Ben Lawlor - Chief Executive Officer

Ben Lawlor in his category 4 winning acceptance speech stated 'This project has been nothing short of transformative for CB Civil...Thank you, I hope in some small way, we have helped move New Zealand and Hamilton City forward.'