Bay Harbour: August 15, 2018

Wednesday August 15 2018
News
Boat shed delays overcome
• By Sarla Donovan
COMPLEXITIES with putting
piles into place have delayed
a new boat shed planned for
Moncks Bay.
Construction on Christchurch
Yacht Club’s boat shed and deck
started in March with caissons
– chambers used for underwater
construction – for the seven
roadside piles placed into the
seabed.
Once in place, the caissons
were filled with concrete and a
steel pile was embedded within.
But technical issues with
ground conditions has meant
the last two were particularly
difficult and created delays, said
project manager and yacht club
member Frank Coppens.
Those difficulties had now
been overcome, he said. The next
step will be putting in the deck
and seabed access ramps. “Rest
assured, there is progress,” Mr
Coppens said.
The deck design includes a
new 4m wide footpath along its
full length, which will become
part of the Christchurch Coastal
Pathway.
Prefabrication work has been
happening off-site with half
the steel for the deck frame
currently stored in the club’s car
park and the other half at the
contractor’s yard. Mr Coppens
said the deck would roughly
follow the outline of the 14 piles
and measure 40m by 13.5m. It
will be constructed from South
American Tonka hardwood
planks.
“We’ve purchased that and it’s
waiting now at Mitre 10 so we’ve
got all that ready as well. It’s just
a question of having the frame
to install it.”
Weather conditions and access
Nuk Korako
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the Port Hills
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will determine when work could
start on putting the decking
frame in place, but the club
hopes it will be before the end of
next month.
But first the concrete and
landward piles need to be put in
place and then the steel support
beams could go in, said Mr
Coppens.
It’s anticipated the deck and
access ramps would be finished
by the end of the year, but
REBUILD:
An illustration
of the new
boat shed
in Moncks
Bay which
will replace
the former
shed that was
demolished
in 2011. ​
additional funding would need
to be raised to place a boat shed
on the deck.
The cost to the finished
deck stage is $1.174 million,
which has come from the city
council, Coastal Pathway
Project and grants the club has
received.
The original boat shed was
demolished in June, 2011,
after suffering damage in the
February 22, 2011, earthquake.
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LIBRARY HOURS INCREASE
Extended weekend opening
hours start at the Sumner
Centre: Matuku Takotako on
Saturday. The library will now be
open from 10am-4pm, Saturday
and Sunday. The move to
increase weekend hours follows
pressure from residents to enable
seven-day access, especially for
those who work and go to school
outside the area during the
week. The city council budgeted
an additional $44,000 per
annum in its Long Term Plan to
pay for the extra services.
FREE WI-FI PLAN
The city council is investigating
installing free wi-fi across
the Akaroa and Lyttelton
town centres after the idea
was suggested by the Banks
Peninsula Community Board.
Free wi-fi is provided at all
libraries in Christchurch, but
board member Janis Haley said
that created a lot of congestion
around the Akaroa Library
during the cruise ship season.
CORRECTION
In a recent article about Redcliffs
resident Chris Doudney,
Bay Harbour News referred to
him as a “former architect”. Mr
Doudney remains principal at
Christopher Doudney Architecture.
We apologise for the error.
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