What takes 2746 cubic metres of concrete, 16 hours, and a continuous fleet of 60 trucks to complete?
The folk at NZ Refining, which runs the Marsden Pt Oil Refinery, have the answer - the base for the refinery's $365 million Continuous Catalyst Regeneration Platformer project.
The $365-million CCR project will lift the refinery's capabilities to 80 per cent of all New Zealand's fuel needs, providing a more reliable fuel source. Building work will also create about 300 on-site jobs and hundreds more off-site over the next four years.
On Saturday a convoy of 60 concrete trucks took 550 separate loads over 16 hours to pour 2746cu m of concrete into a hole 1.5 to 2 metres deep for the base.
The pour - believed to be one of the largest single-day concrete pours in New Zealand - started at 3.30am on Saturday and continued through to 9pm, Refining NZ communications and external affairs manager Greg McNeill said.