Drury South Stormwater Wetland wins Excellence Award

The project took home the Pipeline and Civil Project Award at the Water New Zealand Stormwater 2022 Conference.

Drury South is New Zealand’s biggest business park spanning 361 hectares, with 85 hectares of ecological park and recreation areas.

This central wetland is 3.5 hectares in size, located within the active floodplain of the Hingaia Stream, a significant ecological area. It sits below a large mixed-use commercial precinct.

The Boffa Miskell design and ecology teams, led by landscape architect Mark Lewis, collaborated with local Ngāti Tamaoho artist Ted Ngataki to create the tuna (long-fin eel) motif, with an iterative design process to ‘fit’ the representative forms of the tuna with the functional forms required for stormwater treatment and operations.

The project team, which included engineers Tonkin + Taylor and contractors Stevenson Mining, worked together to develop a digital model that enabled machine control for construction of the complex curved earthworks.

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For further information please contact Mark Lewis, Katherine Eastman, Eddie Sides or Andrew Wen