Demolition of Yarrow Stadium’s East Stand is scheduled to start mid-April and will be finished by September, the Taranaki Regional Council announced today. The contract has been awarded to Ceres NZ, which specialises in complex, large-scale engineering projects including demolition and deconstruction. It is extensively involved in the rebuild of Christchurch, where the company is based. Demolishing a facility the size of East Stand is a challenging undertaking, and the job drew interest from a
Land management category winners in the 2020 Taranaki Regional Council Environmental Awards. Category sponsor: Corteva Agriscience C and J McCowan Partnership - for outstanding effort protecting and improving the environment through sustainable land management and farming practices. Steep slopes, high rainfall and erodible soils may seem considerable challenges, but sustainable and profitable farming is still possible. Campbell and Jodene McCowan work hard to achieve it on their 118-hectare
Yarrow Stadium’s status as one of the nation’s leading regional venues will be cemented with state-of-the art hybrid turf and LED floodlighting to be installed under contracts announced today. The contracts are “exciting news for all Stadium users – local, regional, national or international”, says David MacLeod, chair of Taranaki Regional Council which owns the venue through the Taranaki Stadium Trust. “Installing hybrid turf and LED lighting required highly specialised skillsets, and we’ve
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