Thank you for your continued patience, tolerance and cooperation while the civil works are being undertaken on Cable St. To date the team haven’t found any unexpected issues and the civil works are progressing well. (Long may that continue – there’s a reason it is called Cable St! ) This week some of the key …
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Tākina WCEC – Project update
This is an update from our previous advice on 11/12/20 Early next year there will be civils work undertaken on Cable Street to connect Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre to the street infrastructure (water, drainage, etc). This will involve some trenching across the Cable Street road and footpath. A traffic management plan has been …
Tākina WCEC – Cable St works
Early next year there will be some civils work undertaken on Cable Street to connect Tākina Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre to the street infrastructure (water, drainage, etc). This will involve some trenching across the Cable Street road and footpath. A traffic management plan will be agreed with Wellington City Council’s traffic team prior to …
Tākina – Project Update
The structural steel works continue to progress well. The northern perimeter is taking shape with the main entry and canopy works. The curved form is now visible from above the hoardings on Cable Street (as shown in the image below). Latest updates on works over the last month of November The level 2 diagrid is …
Tākina – Project update
There has been significant progress on site over the last period; structural steel works has advanced and the north half of the level 1 diagrid is complete. The structure is starting to take shape and is visible from Cable and Wakefield Streets. The ground floor concrete works are nearing completion with a few steel elements …
WCEC project update
The Wellington Convention & Exhibition Centre has officially been named – Tākina meaning “to invoke”. Construction progress update The main ground floor concrete works on the northern side of the site is being completed today. Structural steel works is progressing well on the southern side. At the end of next week, the diagrid sections will …
WCEC: Project update
It’s been a busy few months on site, the structural steel in the north-west area is installed and continuing in the north-east zone. The base isolators are progressively being installed and the Cable street gantry is now complete. Next month the contractors will be erecting the diagrid sections and this will be the start of …
WCEC – Project update
It’s been a busy few weeks on the WCEC site with lots going on; the installation of base isolators, the delivery of the structural steel and the preparation for crane 2. Base isolators The base isolators have been installed in the north-west zone of the site. Last week base isolators were installed in the north-east …
WCEC weekly project update
Base isolators:Good progress last week with the first base isolators placed on the rubber bearings in the north-east area of the site. Concrete:The largest concrete pour on site is planned for Tuesday, 26th May.Tanking works were carried out last week with reinforcing works to follow. Crane:In the north-east area the contractors prepared the slab and …
WCEC – weekly project update
Dear neighbours, Piling:A great milestone for the project this week with the completion of the piling works. The piling constructor has demobilised from site. Concrete: There will be large concrete pours planned for the next few weeks. This week the focus was on forming up the basement walls in the north-west zone. These works will …