Smashing job! Demolishing the Park Estate Bridge

Video transcript

Timestamp	Visual information	Audio information
00:00:08	Aerial shot above demolition dropping down towards work site
00:00:08	[Text] The Park Estate Road Bridge at Papakura is being replaced and upgraded as part of the project to fit extra motorway lanes underneath,
00:00:13	[Text] This is being done in two halves to maintain access across the bridge as the road is currently a no-exit road.
00:00:18	Wide shots showing heavy machinery eating into bridge.
00:00:24	Pan across the floodlit work site showing heavy machinery at work
00:00:26	Ross Clifford, Fulton Hogan Project Engineer being interviewed on site	We're basically demolishing the old Park Estate Road Bridge tonight. So we've previously built the first stage and moved the traffic onto the new bridge. And this demolition makes way for us to get into the second stage of the project.
00:00:38	Fenced of construction site with heavy machinery working behind it.
00:00:38	[Text] The second stage involves building the second half of the replacement bridge where the 58-year-old bridge stood.
00:00:47	Danny Halley, Nikau Contractors Project Manager being interviewed on site	We've been working on this project with Fulton Hogan for the last three months, and there's obviously a lot of logistics involved, and planning. It's been right down to the last half hour for the timing of the project.
00:01:04	Heavy machinery eating into old bridge structure.	We've brought in 200 cubes of fill to protect the existing road and we've got about 400 cube to remove of the old bridge.
00:00:51	Digger placing material onto truck for recycling, heavy machinery demolishing concrete	All of the material, all of the concrete and reinforcing steel gets recycled. We send all the reinforcing steel to the scrap dealers and all the concrete gets put through our crusher, and we produce gap 65 (aggregate) and gap 20, which we use on other projects.
00:01:42	Pan of heavy machinery eating into old bridge structure, followed by a close up of concrete being removed.
00:01:42	[Text] Auckland's Southern Motorway needed to be closed between Papakura and Drury during the demolition job.	We've got a 14 hour window, which runs form 7pm Saturday night to 9am Sunday morning, and this is enough time for us to take the whole bridge down, with minimal disruption to the residents.
00:01:48	Aerial shot of heavy machinery eating into bridge
00:01:50	[Text] At the end of the night, the bridge demolition and clean up was successfully completed ahead of schedule and the motorway was reopened early,
00:01:57	Acknowledgement of mana whenua partners on the project.
00:02:02	Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency proudly delivering New Zealand upgrade Programme.

Time	00:00:08
Visual info	Aerial shot above demolition dropping down towards work site
Audio info

Time	00:00:08
Visual info	[Text] The Park Estate Road Bridge at Papakura is being replaced and upgraded as part of the project to fit extra motorway lanes underneath,
Audio info

Time	00:00:13
Visual info	[Text] This is being done in two halves to maintain access across the bridge as the road is currently a no-exit road.
Audio info

Time	00:00:18
Visual info	Wide shots showing heavy machinery eating into bridge.
Audio info

Time	00:00:24
Visual info	Pan across the floodlit work site showing heavy machinery at work
Audio info

Time	00:00:26
Visual info	Ross Clifford, Fulton Hogan Project Engineer being interviewed on site
Audio info	We're basically demolishing the old Park Estate Road Bridge tonight. So we've previously built the first stage and moved the traffic onto the new bridge. And this demolition makes way for us to get into the second stage of the project.

Time	00:00:38
Visual info	Fenced of construction site with heavy machinery working behind it.
Audio info

Time	00:00:38
Visual info	[Text] The second stage involves building the second half of the replacement bridge where the 58-year-old bridge stood.
Audio info

Time	00:00:47
Visual info	Danny Halley, Nikau Contractors Project Manager being interviewed on site
Audio info	We've been working on this project with Fulton Hogan for the last three months, and there's obviously a lot of logistics involved, and planning. It's been right down to the last half hour for the timing of the project.

Time	00:01:04
Visual info	Heavy machinery eating into old bridge structure.
Audio info	We've brought in 200 cubes of fill to protect the existing road and we've got about 400 cube to remove of the old bridge.

Time	00:00:51
Visual info	Digger placing material onto truck for recycling, heavy machinery demolishing concrete
Audio info	All of the material, all of the concrete and reinforcing steel gets recycled. We send all the reinforcing steel to the scrap dealers and all the concrete gets put through our crusher, and we produce gap 65 (aggregate) and gap 20, which we use on other projects.

Time	00:01:42
Visual info	Pan of heavy machinery eating into old bridge structure, followed by a close up of concrete being removed.
Audio info

Time	00:01:42
Visual info	[Text] Auckland's Southern Motorway needed to be closed between Papakura and Drury during the demolition job.
Audio info	We've got a 14 hour window, which runs form 7pm Saturday night to 9am Sunday morning, and this is enough time for us to take the whole bridge down, with minimal disruption to the residents.

Time	00:01:48
Visual info	Aerial shot of heavy machinery eating into bridge
Audio info

Time	00:01:50
Visual info	[Text] At the end of the night, the bridge demolition and clean up was successfully completed ahead of schedule and the motorway was reopened early,
Audio info

Time	00:01:57
Visual info	Acknowledgement of mana whenua partners on the project.
Audio info

Time	00:02:02
Visual info	Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency proudly delivering New Zealand upgrade Programme.
Audio info