managing critical assets 2013

Managing Critical Assets

A Maintenance Perspective

Bradley Yates, Senior Asset Manager with NZ Transport Agency

New Zealand

State Highways

Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective

New Zealand Transport Agency – Purpose

Creating transport solutions for a thriving New Zealand

Geoff Dangerfield, Chief Executive Officer

New Zealand State Highways

• Valued at $25 Billion NZD

• Is an essential asset for the productivity of New Zealand

• Providing efficient & reliable travel to almost all vehicle traffic & 70% of freight traffic

Colin Crampton, Highways & Network Operations, Group Manager

New Zealand - 268,021 km2

Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective

Maintaining our Network

• 4.4M Population (2012)

• Over three-quarters live in the North Island (76 %)

• Almost one-quarter living in Auckland 1.4M Population (32%)

• Early economy based on sealing, whaling, flax, kauri gum & native timber

• Early 1800’s gold was discovered mostly in the South Island

• Late 1800’s agricultural products became the highest export earner & major occupation

• $167 Billion GDP (2012) with agriculture contributing to two-thirds of exports

Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective

Maintaining our Network

• Comprises 11,000 kilometres of road

• Relies on 4,200 bridges and large culverts

• And other structures, retaining walls, sea walls, footbridges, sign gantries and stock underpasses

While only representing 11% of New Zealand's road network, the state highways carry half of the country's traffic.

Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective

Maintaining our Network

• Provides a vital link to almost 83,000km of local roads.

• There are still 185 single-lane bridges and 14 timber bridges on state highways

• 9 State Highway tunnels

• Crossing spectacular but challenging landscapes and climates

Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective

Maintaining our Network – Funding 2012/13

• Maintenance & Operations - $325M NZD

• Renewals - $199 Million NZD

• Improvements - $1,000 Million NZD

• Total - $1,524 Million NZD

Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective

Maintaining our Network - Challenges

Rainfall varies between 600 and 1600 mm of rainfall spread throughout the year

• Northern & Central areas more rainfall falls in winter than in summer

• Southern areas winter is the season of least rainfall, but has the snow!

Ranging from....

• 300 mm of rain a in semi-arid region of Central Otago

• 8000 mm in places west of the Southern Alps

• 3,100 glaciers larger than a hectare (Inventory taken in the 1980s by Trevor Chinn)

Scour A Maintenance Perspective

Flooding A Maintenance Perspective

Earthquakes A Maintenance Perspective

Slips A Maintenance Perspective

Materials A Maintenance Perspective

Traffic A Maintenance Perspective

South Island - 4924.4km

SH6 – West Coast South

SH6 – Slips A Maintenance Perspective

SH6 – Slips A Maintenance Perspective

SH6 – Rocks A Maintenance Perspective

SH6 – Rockfall A Maintenance Perspective

SH6 – Damage A Maintenance Perspective

SH6 – Works A Maintenance Perspective

SH6 – The Sea A Maintenance Perspective

SH6 – Debris A Maintenance Perspective

Glaciers A Maintenance Perspective

Glaciers A Maintenance Perspective

Rocks… A Maintenance Perspective

Upstream… A Maintenance Perspective

Downstream… A Maintenance Perspective

Scour… A Maintenance Perspective

Works… A Maintenance Perspective

Access… A Maintenance Perspective

Seismic Retrofit A Maintenance Perspective

Seismic Retrofit A Maintenance Perspective

SH8 – East to West A Maintenance Perspective

SH8 – East to West A Maintenance Perspective

Maintaining links… A Maintenance Perspective

Communities… A Maintenance Perspective

Millers Flat

Little by little… A Maintenance Perspective

Roxburgh

Access… A Maintenance Perspective

Lake Roxburgh

Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective

Maintaining our Network

Tourism is an important industry:

• contributing $15 Billion NZD (or 9%) of the country's GDP in 2010

Is now the largest export industry:

• 2.4 Billion international tourists visiting per year (as of September 2009), providing 18% of the country's export earnings in 2010

New Zealand is marketed abroad as a "clean, green" adventure playground, with typical destinations being nature areas such as Milford Sound...

SH94 – Milford Road A Maintenance Perspective

SH94 – Milford Road A Maintenance Perspective

Maintaining our Network

Homer Tunnel

• 1200 m long of unlined rock

• completed 1953 and opened 1954

• Linking Hollyford Valley and Milford Sound, Fordland

SH94 – Milford Road A Maintenance Perspective

SH94 – Milford Road A Maintenance Perspective

SH94 – Milford Road A Maintenance Perspective

SH94 – Homer Tunnel A Maintenance Perspective

SH94 – Homer Tunnel A Maintenance Perspective

SH94 – Homer Tunnel A Maintenance Perspective

SH94 – Homer Tunnel A Maintenance Perspective

The other side… A Maintenance Perspective

Milford Sound A Maintenance Perspective

Tourism… A Maintenance Perspective

Milford Sound A Maintenance Perspective

Communities… A Maintenance Perspective

North Island - 5981.3km

SH1- Auckland & the Far North

SH1- Auckland Harbour Bridge

Cross Section … A Maintenance Perspective

SH1 – AHB A Maintenance Perspective

Maintaining our Network

• 8 lanes carrying 160,000 vehicles per day

• Movable lane barrier for peak hour volume and safety

• 11 primary structures

• Neighbours

• Stakeholders

Capacities… A Maintenance Perspective

Incidents… A Maintenance Perspective

Security… A Maintenance Perspective

Hikoi… A Maintenance Perspective

Heritage… A Maintenance Perspective

Culture… A Maintenance Perspective

Ceremonies… A Maintenance Perspective

Events… A Maintenance Perspective

Landscape… A Maintenance Perspective

Commerce… A Maintenance Perspective

Commerce… A Maintenance Perspective

Utilities… A Maintenance Perspective

Collaboration… A Maintenance Perspective

Inspections… A Maintenance Perspective

Maintenance… A Maintenance Perspective

Renewals… A Maintenance Perspective

Street Lights… A Maintenance Perspective

Information… A Maintenance Perspective

History… A Maintenance Perspective

Icon… A Maintenance Perspective

Future… A Maintenance Perspective

Managing Critical Assets A Maintenance Perspective

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