Project Auckland: 'she's a pretty big job'

Project Auckland: 'she's a pretty big job'
Blake Lepper worked on the new Christchurch convention centre, Te Pae, in the pre-construction phase. (Image: ChristchurchNZ)
Oliver Lewis
At a recent conference, Ross Copland, chief executive of the Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga, presented a remarkable graph alongside a video of an old Mitre 10 ad – the one with two kids in a sandpit talking about DIY.“She’s a pretty big job,” one of the young builders says.They’re talking about putting up a retaining wall, but Copland chose the video as a jokey reference to the size of the Auckland infrastructure pipeline, a staggering programme of work over the next 10-plus years that includes Auckland lig...

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