Auckland’s City Rail Link (CRL) has received two top-tier ratings from the Infrastructure Sustainability Council (ISC) – making the entire project officially recognised as meeting the highest sustainability standards ever awarded in New Zealand and Australia.
CRL has been given an As-Built leading rating for the overall project, covering the design and construction of its C1, C2 and C3 contracts – CRL’s entire 3.45 kilometre route of tunnels and stations.
It is the first project to be awarded ISC’s Leading IS (Mahi Rauora Aratohu version 1) As Built programme rating overall.
CRL also received an As-Built leading rating specifically for the design and construction of its main C3 tunnels and stations contract delivered by Link Alliance, covering the work to build the Te Waihorotiu, Karanga-a-Hape and Maungawhau Stations, including its use of a tunnel boring machine between Maungawhau and Te Waihorotiu.
ISC Chief Executive Toby Kent congratulated the team on its success and praised its commitment to sustainability.
“The ISC is proud to see New Zealand’s biggest transport infrastructure project adopt sustainability into the DNA of its operations,” he said.
“This has been an amazing achievement and demonstrates the overwhelmingly positive social, economic and environmental good that is possible to achieve through an IS Rating.”
CRL Ltd Chief Executive Patrick Brockie said the council’s independent assessment was a testament to the values and hard work demonstrated by the project team, contractors and subcontractors.
“Success for CRL Ltd and our Link Alliance delivery partner is testament to the passion, commitment, and tenacity of the many talented people who have delivered a project that is not just good for Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, but good for the sector, shifting the needle on how we integrate sustainability, environment, social outcomes and culture into large scale infrastructure projects,” he said.
ISC was impressed by CRL’s protection of the environment: substantially reducing the project’s carbon footprint; savings around the use of construction and operational energy; more efficient use of water and materials; a dramatic reduction in waste earmarked for landfill; use of high-tech computer technology to help produce more efficient design and construction methodology.
The ISC also praised the commitment by CRL Ltd, Link Alliance and mana whenua to imbed Māori cultural values in the project’s design and deliver positive social outcomes for Māori, Pasifika and rangatahi (youth) by creating employment and training opportunities and supporting Māori and Pasifika businesses with supply chain opportunities.
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