Posts by Jacquie Boer
Stopbanks – (Mills St, Motueka, and Marlborough)
Clients: Various Repairing and enhancing community infrastructure Community resilience is a key focus of many of Taylors’ projects. Over the past year, we have been involved in several stopbank projects in Tasman, Marlborough, and the lower North Island. Our efforts have centred on repairing and enhancing infrastructure in response to recent flood events and proactively…
Read MoreRock Export to Lower North Island
Client: Taylors Contracting Collaborators: Heron Construction, Port Tarakohe, CentrePort Key project challenges In just 79 working days, 21,263 tonnes of rock was extracted from Taylors’ privately-owned Balcks Quarry to comply with the quarry’s consented three-month annual operating window. Taylors team members commuted from Nelson to the quarry in Golden Bay Mohua each day to undertake…
Read MoreCullen Point work supports infrastructure resilience in Marlborough
It’s great to see this video featuring our work at Cullen Point in Marlborough to support community connectivity and infrastructure resilience. As the video explains, the end result will be a resilient two-lane road that 2,000 vehicles per day use in the summer months. NZTA Waka Kotahi also says in the video that one of…
Read MoreMulti-Award-Winning Night for Taylors Contracting at Forestry Awards
Strong recognition of the contribution Brightwater company Taylors Contracting makes to forestry in the region was provided at the Top of the South Forestry Awards on Friday (19 July), with Taylors Contracting nominees winning four awards. Forestry Department Manager Mike Fahey took out the Hero of the Industry Award for 2024. The award recognises Mike’s…
Read MoreDonald Creek Paired Catchment Study
Project Info: Client: OneFortyOne Ltd Collaborators: Iwi, Ministry for Primary Industries, Cawthron Institute, Envirolink, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, neighbours, the Department of Conservation, Fish & Game, Smart Engineering, and Tasman District Council Project Description: OneFortyOne New Zealand Ltd (OFO) has established a long-term paired catchment monitoring programme within comparative catchments in its Donald Creek Forest…
Read MoreLake Tekapō Canal Remediation
Client: Genesis Energy Taylors Contracting was the main earthworks contractor for this project which was subject to extremely tight timeframes and deadlines. The scope of works included installation and subsequent removal of coffer dams, removal of existing clay to waste, importing material to re-line the canal embankments, excavation of ‘key’ trenches for liner installation, the…
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