|
|
Victoria Street eastern entrance of Te Wai Horotiu Station
|
|
|
Kia ora,
This month, City Rail Link Ltd in partnership with Auckland Transport publicly announced details of the proposed names for City Rail Link stations at an event held at the Te Wai Horotiu Station (Aotea) site, attended by local dignitaries. The final designs for the stations were also released. Watch the announcement and find out more here.
Also this month, City Rail Link Ltd's CEO Dr Sean Sweeney, wrote about CRL's point of difference to our "Aussie cousins".
As always, to contact us here at Te Wai Horotiu Station you can email us at: aotea@linkalliance.co.nz or call 0800 CRL TALK (0800 275 8255 and press option 3) to speak to us.
Kind regards,
The Te Wai Horotiu Station team
|
|
"Meet Your Stations" goes to school
|
|
|
Since City Rail Link's announcement earlier this month about the proposed names of its stations and designs, we've had lots of interest from Aucklanders. Some local schools have been gifted detailed information about the new names and the naming process, including Grey Lynn School not far from us in midtown. Year 5 and Year 6 students took a particular interest as these classes are currently exploring the Aotearoa New Zealand History Curriculum around the naming of places by local iwi and the significance of these names.
|
|
Te Wai Horotiu Station construction progress
|
|
|
|
Click on the image for a downloadable pdf of the station's milestone tracker.
|
|
South Zone - Mayoral Drive area
- Above-ground we have almost completed the final columns in preparation for the construction of the roof of the four-storey super-structure (Wellesley St entrance building). Over the coming months, facade and architectural fit-out works will begin.
- Underground, excavation continues below the completed B1 concourse level slabs down to the B3 platform and base-slab levels. A large concrete pour just beneath the end of the first TBM tunnel is scheduled for this week.
- Preparations are already underway for the station to receive the TBM in the spring of this year. Unlike the first tunnel drive when only the front section of the TBM was lifted out, for the second drive the entire 130m TBM will be lifted out at Te Wai Horotiu Station.
|
|
|
|
Taken from within the Wellesley Street public entrance area to the train station - note the high ceilings.
|
|
|
|
The Wellesley St superstructure building continues to rise. Precast facade panels are due to be installed.
|
|
|
|
The end of the first completed tunnel from Maungawhau (Mt Eden) and Karanga a Hape (Karangahape) Stations.
|
|
|
|
Blockwork complete for several "back-of-house" rooms underground.
|
|
Central Zone - Albert Street from Wellesley to Victoria
- The final section of the old Albert Street retaining wall (above the lower service lane) has now been demolished, with station upstand wall and roof construction works beginning
- Works are also underway to lay steel and pour the final roof sections on the western side of Albert Street, outside AA and Manhattan Apartments.
- Below ground, excavation toward Victoria Street is now well underway with B1 concourse level reinforcing and concreting.
- See below for more information about the first cross-beam to be constructed at the station!
|
|
|
|
Almost ready-to -pour! Preparations are underway for the first cross-beam concrete (going in tomorrow).
|
|
|
|
As shown from the platform level, note the completed concourse cross-beam above ↑↑
|
|
|
|
This is how we pour our underground concrete - using a boom pump located at the surface extended down through our roof openings. Eventually, many of these roof openings will become skylights letting in natural light to the completed station.
|
|
Victoria Street Zone - from Federal to Elliott
- With the completion of several roof slabs across Victoria Street, underground excavation in this area is now well underway.
- The station’s Victoria Street eastern entrance is now fully exposed, with excavation continuing under the recently built roof slabs. A happy team last week “broke through” into the already excavated Albert Street area – slightly north of the intersection.
- Excavation of the underground station will continue over the coming months, with all dirt due to be removed by the end of the year.
- Utilities relocation and upgrade works continue, carefully sequenced and coordinated with the construction of the station roof.
|
|
|
|
The Victoria Street eastern entrance is now exposed, while underground excavation continues beneath the roof slabs.
|
|
|
|
A happy Victoria Street team celebrate their breakthrough and excavation of the Victoria Street eastern entrance.
|
|
North Zone - Albert Street from Victoria to Wyndham
- Work to extend the running tunnels continues to progress south from Wyndham Street. This includes formwork and steel reinforcing for base slabs and walls, followed by concrete pours.
- We are also now continuing the construction of the roof of the running tunnels in this area.
- A key focus of the team's work here is connecting into the existing running tunnels from Waitematā Station (Britomart), linking into the Te Wai Horotiu Station concourse and platform structure.
- Concrete is also being poured in the "cut-and-cover" C2 tunnels running beneath Wyndham Street to Waitematā Station, in preparation for track and rail system installation.
|
|
|
|
Works below Albert Street near Kingston Street. 20m deep bored piles are clearly visible, with steel being laid in preparation for base slab concrete.
|
|
|
|
Works underway to pump concrete into the C2 "cut-and-cover" tunnels running to Waitematā Station.
|
|
|
|
Taken below Albert Street, from near Victoria Street -- looking north towards Wyndham Street.
|
|
Midtown is open for business, work, and play
|
|
Auckland Festival of Photography
Te Wai Horotiu Station is proud to present "The Unseen Achievers" by Mark Barber, as part of this year's Auckland Festival of Photograpghy. At the heart of our construction is people, who often work unassumingly above-ground but are also hidden below ground. Mark Barber’s photographic portraits transform this invisibility and eloquently capture the humanity within the toughness of the construction site. View the exhibition during the month of June at our Te Pūkaki public information centre on the corner of Elliott and Victoria Streets.
|
|
City of Colour lives on
While the City of Colour (supported by Heart of the City and Auckland Council) has officially ended, due do overwhelming popularity we are keeping Angus Muir's "Flamboyance" installation in place for a further few months. Come visit these intriguing and instagrammable flamingos dancing near the corner of Elliott and Victoria Streets.
|
|
Queen's Birthday treats care of The Coffee Club Victoria Street
We love to support local and this week we are treating the community to fresh Queen's Birthday scones care of The Coffee Club at 62 Victoria Street West. Come down a grab yours from 11am Friday 3 June at our Te Pūkaki public information centre on the corner of Elliott and Victoria Streets. First in, first served! And don't forget to visit Ruby and the Coffee Club team any day, for tasty coffee, snacks, and meals.
|
|
Support Local to win - first winner announced
We have our first winner of the Support Local & Win competition! The lovely Patricia was supporting the local NZ Post Shop/Western Union on 44 Wellesley St West - congratulations on your $100 voucher. Remember, this competition continues over the coming months - every month we draw a winner of a $100 voucher and there's also a grand prize of an underground tour of Te Wai Horotiu Station! Find out more here.
|
|
Updates on neighbouring projects
|
|
|
Myers Park Underpass (Auckland Council)
Auckland Council has unveiled artists’ impressions of a new work of public art set to transform the underpass at the northern end of Myers Park into an interactive experience of light and sound, opening this summer. The artwork installation, envisaged as a ‘whakarongo environment’, is designed to evoke an ‘awakening of the senses’ in the Myers Park underpass area. Read more here about this work, and the construction programme over the coming months.
|
|
Te Hā Noa Victoria Street Linear Park (Auckland Council)
Work is progressing well in checking for underground services and tree roots on Victoria Street. The works are part of the planning for stage one of Te Hā Noa Victoria Street linear park. The team has five more slot trenches to excavate between Queen Street and Kitchener Street, and then expects to start works between Queen Street and the Te Wai Horotiu Station site by Thursday 2 June. This section is expected to take around one week. Through early identification of underground services, decisions around the construction methodology and design can be incorporated into the Te Hā Noa detailed plans. This helps to reduce the risk of unexpected delays during future construction.
|
|
Reminder: Invitation to community workshop
Social Impact & Business Disruption review
|
|
All members of the Te Wai Horotiu Station community are invited to share feedback and experiences as part of our regular Social Impact & Business Disruption review process. This is an important part of our designation consent conditions. In addition to the feedback you provide via our quarterly community surveys, we will host a workshop for you to provide feedback about the impact of construction and the work of the Link Alliance. These findings will be incorporated into this year’s Social Impact & Business Disruption annual report.
When: 4.00pm-5.30pm, Wednesday 15 June 2022
Where: Tony's Lord Nelson Restaurant, 37 Victoria Street West
Refreshments will be provided.
In addition to the Social Impact & Business Disruption workshop, a station construction update will also be provided.
RSVP: Please let us know you are coming by emailing aotea@linkalliance.co.nz
|
|
|
Concrete is measured by its strength capacity. MPa (megapascals) is the metric measurement for psi or pounds per square inch. Where using concrete to build structures, a minimum MPa is usually required. The MPa of new concrete is determined using a cylinder-testing process. Concrete experts create small concrete cylinders, which are dried and placed in testing machines. These machines usually consist of two heavy plates that are pressed together at either end of the cylinder; the machine subjects the concrete to extremely high compression forces until the cylinder cracks. The point at which the concrete cracks determines its MPa strength.
|
|
|
|
