| Rotorua Youth Justice Central |
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The Youth Justice Central (YJC) is a secure residential facility that will provide accommodation for up to 24 young people, initially with provision to extend the facility to accommodate 32 young people (generally aged 14 -16 years inclusive) under the care and control of the Chief Executive of Ministry of Social Development. The new facility will assist young people that come from the Bay of Plenty/Waikato to stay close to their families/whanau, aiding the rehabilitation process. The residential facility, on SH30 Rotorua will consist of a number of specially designed, modular buildings in a campus style environment, on a green-fields site. We were appointed Civil Contractor for the project to widen State Highway 30,install a right turning median and left turning slowing bay, construct a 1.1km access road to the site including major drainage culverts and a stock underpass, site earthworks and complete site development to create a construction platform ready to handover to the building contractor. Despite the geotechnical information indicating suitable cut to fill material, upon commencement of earthworks in October 2008, the material was found to be unsuitable due to its physical properties and was deemed cut to waste. To resolve the issue of a shortage of suitable material, we undertook investigation extensive investigations in the local area and identified sources of suitable rhyolite fill. We then engaged consultants to oversee the process for obtaining the resource consents as quickly as possible and accelerated the earthworks with additional plant and labour resource to recover the lost time. The bulk earthworks comprised of 145,000m3 of cut-to-waste, 99,000m3 of imported fill and 30,000m3 of cut-to-fill. The cut to waste was backloaded with imported fill from the temporary rhyolite quarry we had established, with a maximum of 53,000m3 of both cut to waste and imported fill achieved in January. The project works were practically completed in April 2009. As the site was a working farm, we were pro active in meeting and discussing the needs of the farm staff to ensure our works caused minimal disruption. Water lines to stock troughs were permanently diverted and both temporary and 3200m of permanent 7-wire fences were installed "Their attention to detail, whether it is in actually carrying out the earthworks or planning ahead, is the best I have seen in the 5 years of monitoring and enforcing large scale earthwork consents."
          
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