Derric Boakes - Alpine Quantity Surveyor

Ops Team Update

Welcome to Richard, who joins the Famous Five Ops team while Darryn is away. Great to have you on board.

A nice run of good-sized kitsets this month – excellent work from the team.

We're making solid progress on updating our sliding door system, and the new Revit plans along with the updated ML are looking great.

Max has been developing his de-icing skills in the south-side car park. 

A big cheers to Jonny and his balaclava-clad team for braving these frosty mornings and keeping things moving.

Thanks to Hartley for his ability to ride the waves while coping with his massive workload (here & at home).😁

On the freight front, Scott continues to make impressive gains in the ongoing "Freight Wars", securing backloads heading north.

These tidy rigs alone have saved us a couple of grand on loads to the North Island.

Imagine an Alpine one of these flying the Alpine flag from south to north & back.

Keep up the great work, everyone.

Julius Katzke - Attika Senior Quantity Surveyor   

Busy stretch in the QS team. Most of it has been tender work, and the rest has been keeping on top of client-side changes.

The biggest tender on the desk is an electric bus depot in Porirua, where we're pricing as a delivery partner to the operator. Two new buildings, and the site has to be operational by mid 2028. It's the most document-heavy job we've touched in a while: a full consultant design, 94 sheets of architectural drawings, and 42 separate client pricing lines to reconcile against our own subcontract packages. We've deliberately gone with a closed panel of preferred subcontractors rather than throwing it out to a wide tender. More coordination up front, but we're pricing off people we know will turn up.

 Ballance Bulk Storage Facility Kaikohe has come off the blocks. Building consent is granted, and we're locking contractors in now.

Apogee at Alexandra Airport is ramping up too, with civil and reinforcing out to market. Central Otago is thin on subcontractor capacity, so the real challenge there isn't getting prices in. It's finding people we can trust to deliver a high-end project.

Silverdale is where most of the team's capacity is going right now. Variations and scope demarcation mostly, with Jo carrying a big load: tendering, processing claims, juggling a steady run of client change requests, and sitting at the centre of every drawing update while keeping the client in the loop. Glue on that job.

Quieter one in the background: our own consultant appointment agreements are drafted and close to rolling out. Once they're in play, we stop accepting whatever terms a consultant sends through, which takes a layer of risk off us before it ever reaches a project.

Looking forward to getting the Porirua Bus Depot price away, and to seeing Ballance and Apogee break ground.

• Almanzo Boakes' Birthday - 2nd August
• Anthony Brewerton's Birthday - 13th August 
  
  
• Last day of work for the year - 23rd December
• First day back at work - 7th January

• For more information, visit the staff away calendar.