Expanding the footprint of Lyttelton Port’s future container terminal to meet the region’s growing freight requirements
Reclaiming in stages
Te Awaparahi Bay is a staged reclamation project that will eventually see 34ha of new land created for Lyttelton Port Company’s future container terminal. We have provided day-to-day construction management of the first 10Ha reclamation and facilitated the construction of a haul road to LPC’s quarry. The project includes both substantial civil construction and marine dredging and dumping. As with any project taking place within a live environment, regular communication and extremely careful planning and stakeholder engagement are key to success.
Joining the dots
To facilitate the Stage 1 reclamation, a new haul road had to be constructed to provide a link between the port and Gollans Bay Quarry, which is provides the majority of material required for the Stage 1 reclamation. The haul road element of this project required close liaison with the Christchurch City Council team who were re-constructing Sumner Road directly above the site, as rock blasting was involved in both projects.
Environmental management was also a key factor. Across this project’s quarrying, dredging and land reclamation scopes there was significant environmental interface and careful management was required, including searching and monitoring for nesting and moulting penguins, removal and relocation of lizards from the quarry and monitoring of marine mammals.
Points of interest
- 1.2 million cubic metres of rubble was used to construct the 10Ha reclamation.
- 340,000 m³ of material was dredged to create a bund ‘pocket’ in the seabed, which was then filled with 872,000 tonnes of quarried material to make the new bund.
- Stormwater design for the new haul road had to be carefully managed as it was subject to overflow from Sumner Road above and discharged to the harbour below.