This means the substructure and foundation work for the $683-million multi-use arena is now complete, and work is now focused solely on the steel and vertical construction. The foundations work began in January, and since then, 55 major pours have taken place, with almost 26,000 cubic metres of concrete poured into Te Kaha’s substructure. More…
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Concrete pour major milestone in Court Theatre build
Construction of The Court Theatre’s new home in central Christchurch has begun. Contractors have poured the first concrete on the Colombo St and Gloucester Street site which will see The Court Theatre return to the city in the heart of the Performing Arts Precinct. “It’s going to be exciting for construction to really ramp up…
Concrete pour major milestone in Court Theatre build
Construction of The Court Theatre’s new home in central Christchurch has begun. Contractors have poured the first concrete on the Colombo St and Gloucester Street site which will see The Court Theatre return to the city in the heart of the Performing Arts Precinct. “It’s going to be exciting for construction to really ramp up…
Major concrete pours for Te Kaha to begin later this month
Work on Te Kaha, Canterbury’s Multi-Use Arena, will hit a new milestone later this month when the first of the foundations’ major concrete pours is completed. Te Kaha Project Delivery Chief Executive David Kennedy says the lead contractor, BESIX Watpac, will oversee about 40 large concrete pours between 27 January and mid-August, as work begins…
Building a more sustainable future with 3D concrete printed homes
Building a more sustainable future with 3D concrete printed homes Advances in 3D concrete printing technologies are creating exciting opportunities to build homes faster, more sustainably and at reduced cost. University of Canterbury (UC), architectural engineer Dr Giuseppe Loporcaro is leading a research project to refine low-carbon, seismically resilient solutions for 3D printed homes suited…
‘Game-changer’ greenhouse-gas-reducing concrete enters NZ
A new technology in concrete that could save New Zealand the amount of carbon emissions equivalent to 6.3 flights Auckland to Christchurch for every house built here on average has been brought into the country by leading manufacturer Stevenson. It works by sequestering CO2 – sinking captured, waste carbon into its mixture and saving it…