Beacon Project: Watercare – partnering for carbon reduction

Scene 1 – opening

Audio

Music playing – no lyrics.

Visuals

Image sequence:

• Picture of Auckland in the background showing the Auckland harbour bridge.
• Picture of Auckland Harbour Bridge.
• Moving aerial shot over land, with water in the distance.
• Closer shot of water.
• Water feeding into a big pipe, with a walkbridge over top.

Words on screen: "Carbon reduction Beacon Project".

3 split pictures – Civic Theatre, Watercare company vehicle and Auckland motorway.

Words on screen: "Watercare provides lifeline services to 1.7 million Aucklanders".

Pictures of Water treatment plant and then a closeup over water.

3 split pictures – steam on site, construction of the site and a closeup of the grid on the water at the treatment plant.

Words on screen: "More than 379 million litres of water are supplied and 395 million litres of wastewater are treated every day".

3 split pictures – aerial view of treatment plant buildings and tanks, closeup looking down into one of the water tanks and a workman looking at a guage.

Image sequence:

• Someone turning on a tap
• Water draining in a sink
• Huge water tank under construction
• Aerial shot looking down at huge water tank.

Words on screen: "Over the next 10 years, $5.7 billion will be spent on infrastructure".

3 pictures of digger silhouetted against the sun, 2 workman talking on site, and a picture of workmen in a trench laying blue pipe, with a digger in the distance.

Words on screen: "This includes pipe lines, treatment plants, pump stations and reservoirs".

4 pictures - aerial view of grid, workmen working with pipes, more workman working and a wide angle of huge water tank under construction.

Image sequence:

• Workman in a large concrete drain
• 2 workmen in discussions on site.

Words on screen: "Watercare's partnership approach to reduce carbon is the first “Beacon project” in the Construction Sector Accord’s Transformation Plan."

2 split pictures – construction at watercare treatment plant on the side of an Auckland motorway and an aerial view looking at 3 water tanks amongst the buildings at the site.

Scene 2

Audio

Steve Webster: We're turning the way construction is carried out on a TED. To do this, we've introduced a new way of working. We call this the enterprise model. In the past, like many other [inaudible] we procured and built infrastructure on a project by project basis. Now we've gone into a partnership with two companies, Fulton Hogan, and Fletcher construction in a $2.4 billion agreement that guarantees they will build the majority of our infrastructure over the next 10 years.

Visuals

4 split pictures – Steve Webster, digger working on site, 2 workmen with heavy machinery alongside and an aerial
view looking at construction on the site.

Steve Webster, Chief infrastructure officer

Image sequence:

• aerial shot of progress on site
• digger, reinforcing wires, workman working with reinforcing
• 2 workmen with huge silver pipes surrounded by scaffolding
• workman on a digger
• logos of Watercare, Fulton Hogan and Fletcher Construction
• aerial shot looking down on large white pipes/drains
• layout of area
• crane working on construction of huge large concrete tank.

Audio

Steve Webster: We also have a panel agreement with three design companies that support this delivery. This enables us to collectively look at our works program and extract the maximum value we can out of this long term agreement. This reduces costs and carbon use across multiple fronts, from the development of business cases to design into our supply chain and then through into construction.

Visuals

Steve Webster

Image sequence:

• digger working on the huge concrete water tank
• truck lifting metal pipes into place on the side of a Street
• crane working lifting a large girder into place, at night
• Steve Webster
• 3 pictures, Steve Webster, workman welding and 2 diggers working on site
• 2 workmen moving a panel
• aerial view looking down on panels in the water on site.

Audio

Steve Webster: A bold vision for delivering our infrastructure with our partners is called 40:20:20. It's a 40% reduction in our build carbon, and a 20% reduction in our costs by 2024. And a year on year 20% improvement in safety and wellbeing of everyone involved in the delivery of our infrastructure.

Visuals

Steve Webster

Words on screen: "40:20:20. It's a 40% reduction in build carbon. 20% reduction in costs by 2014. 20% improvement in safety and wellbeing year on year".

• Picture of truck moving dirt.
• 2 split pictures – truck emptying dirt and the same showing another angle.
• Picture of 2 workmen talking on the site.

Scene 3

Audio

David Ward (Head of programme first infrastructure): This is our carbon baseline. We're going to measure all of our carbon reductions against this baseline. We believe this is a first for an infrastructure program in New Zealand. As we can see, the carbon baseline is made up significantly of materials, and backfilling and reinstatements. These are areas that we know we can focus on to reduce the future carbon footprint by choosing new materials, and new construction methodologies such as trenchless pipelines.

Visuals

David Ward pointing to a pie chart showing the carbon baseline.

Image sequence:

• digger loading into a truck with a crane in the background
• aerial view of the huge concrete water tank.

Brad Ward pointing to the pie chart, to close-up of pie chart

Brad Ward pointing to the pie chart.

Image sequence:

• digger at work on site
• aerial view looking down at construction work on the site.

Brad Ward, with pie chart.

Image sequence:

• looking down to a pipe with rams that has been constructed
• man turning on a switch in a room full of gauges and switches
• 3 split pictures – workmen guiding girder into place, workman attaching plates into concrete and another view of workman guiding girder into place.

Audio

David Ward: Here's one of our first enterprise model projects, the Otara Wastewater pump station in South Auckland. Rather than following a traditional approach we’ll form it by having modular construction. This will be assembled in a factory and brought to site where it can be taken on a construction site where it can be constructed safely and efficiently with a real focus on the materials that we use and the way in which it's constructed. And because it's pre fabricated, it means less traffic movements, which means less carbon.

Visuals

David Ward pointing to a diagram of the new Pumpwater Station.

2 split pictures – 2 diagrams of the pumpstation.

David Ward pointing to the diagram of the new Pumpwater Station (additional camera angle).

Image sequence:

• traffic on Auckland motorway
• 2 men working on the construction site
• wide angle shot of workmen talking on a construction site

David Ward speaking to a workman on site

Image:

• picture of the Pumpwater Station.

David Ward.

Image sequence:

• construction site taken from an aerial view
• 3 pictures – truck tipping dirt, - digger filling truck and a company vehicle with some blue pipes in the foreground
• busy street with traffic signals
• pedestrians walking across busy Street.

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Audio

Dean Kimpton: Congratulations Water Care and welcome to the Beacon Project Program. This is a really important initiative across the construction sector accord. It's about transformation. It's about innovation. It's about all those leading edge initiatives inside projects. And it's an opportunity to share those learnings with the rest of the industry.

Visuals

Dean Kimpton on busy street.

Image sequence:

• large concrete pipe being lifted by chains
• grid in water treatment plant
• man driving heavy machinery.

Dean Kimpton.

Image:

• digger on the edge of the water treatment plant.

Dean Kimpton on busy Street.

Image:

• big orange crane on the construction site.

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Audio

Steve Webster: All eyes are on Water Care. We haven't just built this model and this bold vision for Watercare, We genuinely believe this is how large infrastructure projects and programs should be delivered in New Zealand and we are actively encouraging other asset owners to join the 40:20:20 movement. As it is a Beacon Project we will be sharing our experiences and our performance with you over the coming years.

Visuals

Steve Webster.

Image sequence:

• water treatment plant and then looking down onto the water treatment plant
• big grey concrete water tank
• workman looking at valve on the side of a big grey pipe.

Steve Webster.

Image sequence:

• digger at Watercare treatment plant
• workman giving thumbs up on site.

Steve Webster.

Image sequence:

• big concrete water tank from a distance, workman laying reinforcing, 2 pictures of closeup of grid in water at the water treatment plant.

Scene 6 - closing

Audio

Music playing – no lyrics

Visuals

• 3 picture split – workman with a blue pipe in a ditch, workman watching digging progress of a trench and a closeup of wheel tracks of digger in dirt.
• Picture of aerial view looking at progress of plant.

Logo of Watercare An Auckland Council Organisation.