This project in South Auckland was pretty much ready set go when I got involved. 73 standalone homes arranged around two pocket parks, sold out. I only had two tasks, get the house builder underway and sort out a teeny weeny swale along the main road. Well the swale turned out to be a bit of a mission as it didn’t have adequate budget once council decided what we needed to build was more onerous than our original consultants infrastructure design.
The build was anything but a mission, it was a dream. Primarily because of the onsite house to house manufacture style employed by the main contractor. And a well drilled building and design team with spectacular programming of their subbies. The rolling production line delivered one home every three days, on time, every time.
The development manager (me) and the Engineer to the Contract had nothing really to do. Good learnings about productive building though.
