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Our Process
1. Initial Discussion & Consultation
Discuss your needs, location, and initial plans. Maybe you need a brand new jetty, boat ramp, and boat shed? Need to repair a damaged jetty? Looking to add a floating pontoon to your existing structure? Need foreshore protection/retaining walls or cliff steps?
Whatever your needs, the first step is a friendly chat.
2. Site Inspection & Seabed Survey
We will inspect your proposed site and conduct a seabed survey. This is necessary to help us understand your setting. From this, we can advise you on your best options and develop an initial concept design.
Why a site survey? There are a few reasons. The seabed profile dictates the required length of your jetty to ensure adequate water depth at a Low Spring Tide. Depending on the local topography, we will advise if wooden piles can be used or if iron piles will be required. The specific location also determines what pontoon options are best suited.
3. Develop Initial Concept Plan/Design
After inspecting your site and in consultation with you, we create the initial draft plan for your proposed build. It’s important this plan considers what is likely to be approved by Council during step 5, the Resource Consent Application.
4. Full Quotation
Once you are happy with the proposed plan, we provide you with a full in-depth quotation. This is comprehensive, down to the last nut and bolt.
5. Resource Consent Application
Over the last 23 years, we’ve developed key relationships at the Marlborough District Council along with a thorough understanding of the resource consent process. With many successful applications under our belt, we’ve earned a reputation for helping our clients successfully navigate the resource consent process - at a fraction of the cost of traditional consultants.
6. Fully Engineered Plans
Once your resource consent is approved, you will need full engineer’s plans in order to obtain building consent. We work closely with several local engineers who are experienced with foreshore construction projects. We can pass your concept plan on to them.
7. Building Consent
Obtaining building consent from the Marlborough District Council is the final official step before we can start construction.
8. Construction/Build
Once building consent is granted, we can begin the building process. Please note that we prioritise start dates in the order that quotes are accepted.
Build Process
- Pencil in expected start date
- Order required materials (Timber, piles, bolts, nails, floats, fenders, chain, concrete blocks, link span, etc.)
- Coordinate and book the barge and pile driving contractors
- Ensure materials and piles are delivered to the port before pile driving day
- Pile driving day - this is critical. The foundations of any build are the most important step. Our key contractors (barge operators and pile driver) are very experienced, know what they are doing, and have worked with us for many years.
- Construction. With the most experienced jetty building team around, we pride ourselves on producing a quality product despite working in a challenging environment. Our completion times are affected by weather, tides, and site distance from port.
9. Engineer’s Inspection
Once construction is complete we notify the engineer who then physically inspects the work and forwards a PS4 document to council for sign off. This will trigger your Code of Compliance certificate and is your guarantee that the work has been carried out to the engineer’s specifications.
10. Long Term Maintenance
Although we build the best jetties, floating pontoons, slipways, and boat shed foundations in Marlborough, nothing lasts forever. If you wish, we can help you with ongoing maintenance. This will ensure your jetty passes its next resource consent inspection - these occur every 15 years - and gives you many decades of use.
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Explore answers to common queries about our services and foreshore construction expertise. Feel free to get in touch with our friendly team for further assistance.
We are the most experienced team in Marlborough building fixed jetties, ramps, boat shed foundations, floating pontoons and foreshore retainer walls.
Words of Satisfaction
Hear from our clients and their positive experiences with Foreshore Construction.
Olly Archibald
From start to finish Neville, and then Carl, and the team at Foreshore construction were a pleasure to work with. Covid and a number of resource consent changes/delays meant it was a rocky start but still Carl managed to complete the project well within the expected timeframe. The jetty itself is a thing of beauty and workmanship is top notch. It is an absolute game changer for us in Savill Bay.
Fraser
Our family had been contemplating having a jetty with a pontoon installed in our bay for years. We finally decided to do it and we engaged Foreshore Construction to build it for us. The finished product is of a very high standard and the entire process from planning through to completion has been hassle free. Foreshore Construction are well organised, very professional and their level of finish and attention to detail is superb. Now that we have a jetty we wonder how we survived all those year without one.
Malcolm Woods
We employed Foreshore Construction to build our new floating jetty. It was a very easy and straightforward contract, and we are very pleased with the resultFollowing an initial site visit, Carl and his team quickly completed a survey and plan from which our engineer was able to complete the design. We then received a quotation and programme, and the project was completed without any variation to either.We are very pleased with the quality and found the whole contract and process to be seamless and pleasantly conducted.We would recommend Foreshore Construction to anyone considering their jetty requirements in the Sounds.