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A suite of 31 management plans were developed under the Interim Alliance Agreement prior to the start of SCIRT, to intentionally guide the organisation. These plans were reviewed annually and updated as required.
The Construction Management Plan details how SCIRT managed its construction work and ensured a consistent best practice approach across the approximately 700 projects in the rebuild programme.
The construction objectives were consistent with the Alliance Agreement objectives and included:
A research project on the traffic and transport planning undertaken to support the rebuild of Christchurch's horizontal infrastructure by keeping traffic disruption to an acceptable level while maintaining accessibility to key amenities and limiting congestion.
A number of processes, procedures and tools were developed and implemented to keep traffic flowing during the post-earthquake infrastructure rebuild in Christchurch.
Christchurch's flat and liquefaction-prone ground prompted an investigation into new methods of pipe installation.
Christchurch ground conditions are very difficult to work in. The city was built on flat land with high water table levels on ground that was once predominantly swamp.
Best practice traffic management to help slow motorists travelling through roadworks.
The speed of traffic flowing through SCIRT worksites was raised as an issue early in the work programme, prompting the development of an industry guideline, "Best practice guide for speed management at temporary worksites - Christchurch".
The guideline provided a suite of measures for Site Traffic Management Supervisors (STMSs) to ensure motorists slowed down to an appropriate and safe speed as they travelled through roadworks.
A best practice guideline for cyclists which aims to safely manage cyclists through roadwork sites.
The Cycle Safety and Traffic Management document was produced by SCIRT's Traffic Management team in collaboration with the road controlling authority, the Christchurch Transport Operations Centre (CTOC), and with input from cyclist groups in the city.
The document provided multiple options to manage cyclists through and around worksites based on the location of the worksite, constraints on road space, and the existing cycle infrastructure.
The SCIRT pro forma was created to reduce the amount of generic and repetitive information in a Traffic Management Plan (TMP).
The pro forma Traffic Management Plan was created following industry feedback about the value of the content and the repetition of the information in Traffic Management Plan documentation.
SCIRT worked in collaboration with the local road controlling authority, the Christchurch Transport Operations Centre (CTOC), to create a new, more succinct pro forma.
As an alternative to formal worksite traffic management auditing, regular site checks were implemented to focus on the more significant issues on worksites. The aim was to ensure better standards of compliance with the Code of Practice for Temporary Traffic Management (CoPTTM), and also to help upskill site traffic management staff and the industry generally.
Formal audits of worksites to ensure compliance with the Code of Practice for Temporary Traffic Management were standard practice across the roading industry.
SCIRT navigated an unstable site and the discovery of rock-loving lizards to swing into action from a movable platform to deliver the "Best Public Works Project" in 2015.
The SCIRT Fulton Hogan delivery team was recognised at the 2016 IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia) NZ Excellence Awards for the Sumner Road retaining wall, stage four, project in Lyttelton.
An important arterial route, Sumner Road links harbourside Lyttelton with beachside Sumner.
Christchurch's Bridge of Remembrance and Memorial Arch was one of the city's most treasured remaining historic structures left standing after earthquakes scarred the region. Its restoration required innovation and imagination.
A powerful symbol of the rebuild, Christchurch's iconic Bridge of Remembrance and Memorial Arch was returned to full grandeur.
The SCIRT restoration project recognised the importance of the city's past amid the focus on the future. It proved to be one of the most difficult and rewarding projects of the rebuild.
Christchurch was a limited user of pipe lining for underground pipe repairs but that changed after the earthquakes because of the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of this well-established type of trenchless technology.
Christchurch had been a limited user of the trenchless technology of pipe lining to repair underground pipe networks before the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.
However, with pipe network repairs needed on a massive scale, the financial benefits offered by the 'no dig' pipe lining technology were compelling.