Our journey from best-guess to research-driven edge protection. Safety bunds are an essential part of any surface mining and quarry operation but how safe are they? In March 2020, a subcontractor tragically died in an accident when the articulated dump truck they were driving travelled over a safety bund and fell to the bench below […]
Megan Leeson started her career at Stevenson in 2018 when close family friend Shane Toto helped her get a job at Drury quarry. Two of her siblings Gemma and Adam were already working at the quarry when Megan joined the Drury team, and later siblings Alix and Faye came on board too. Four years later […]
Warren Coe and Colin Stretch teamed up to build a sculpture out of old machinery parts found in the clay and on top of the quarry at Drury. “Some of the parts are very old such as the drill steels that were used to drill into the faces by hand. Bernie McDonald is a driller […]
Stevenson Aggregates was announced as the winner of the WorkSafe Chief Inspector Safety Leadership Award at the annual QuarryNZ conference. This is a top award and recognises the hard work the team at Stevenson put in and the results we have achieved. The WorkSafe Chief Inspector Safety Leadership Award recognises demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement […]
Tomorrow’s Leader award winner Jo Young with Brittney Flavell who also collected the award for Charlotte Harrison, and Alan Titchall from Q+M.
The Puketutu Rehabilitation Project in Auckland’s Manukau Harbour began in 2012 on behalf of Watercare. To meet Auckand’s future needs, a safe location was required to dispose of waste solids from the wastewater treatment plant in Māngere. The plant produces about 330 tonnes of treated biosolids a day. Instead of sending the biosolids to the […]
Pre-casting is an efficient low-carbon emission process for constructing speed tables and other concrete road structures. Stevenson was proud to supply the concrete to Fulton Hogan’s pre-cast modular speed table for Auckland Transport in Kumeū. Installation of a traditional in-situ built table typically takes about two weeks to complete. This pre-cast speed table took only […]
Stevenson was the first company to enter an all-women team in the recent NZIOB Northern Region Golf Day. Diversity and equal opportunity are foundational to Stevenson’s values, and we are focused on working towards becoming industry leaders in this area. We often support industry organisations like the New Zealand Institute of Building, so we jumped […]
Environmental Compliance Manager and Kaiārahi Tara Edwards-Tusa and Quarry Operator Mike Buckley worked with ecology consultants Bioresearches to locate, catch and release eight endemic Copper Skinks at Drury quarry. The skinks, the smallest of New Zealand’s endemic lizards, were found in the western façade area of the quarry and moved into a covenanted, pest-controlled area […]
