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Posted: 11:44am Friday 20 Jan, 2017 | By Ryan Wood ryan@thesun.co.nz

Artist Elliot Collins, right, feels the depth and texture of the abrasive blasting on a test block. Photos: Ryan Wood.

The artist behind the designs for the new tidal stairs is in town today to test the concrete he’ll be working with. Elliot Collins joined representatives from the council and HEB Construction at Bay Sandblasting Services this morning to check out their work. Elliot’s contribution to the project will be a tukutuku panel “in pieces”, spread out across the tidal stairs. Imagine the traditional shapes you might expect to see on a tukutuku panel, but arranged almost haphazardly, and ingrained in the stairs. “It should seem like they’re meant to be constructed later – metaphorically, of course,” he says. He’s also going to add some “hidden elements” to the stairs – small drawings such as crabs or shells, which people can discover if they look close enough. He says the project itself, with the stairs and the pier, is quite bold and strong. So these little designs will provide some balance to that. The abrasive blasting process. The vertical faces of the stairs will also have a karakia, in Maori and English, ingrained upon them. It’s been gifted by kaumatua Peri Kohu, and tells the origin story of Mauao and how the harbour was formed. Due to the nature of the stairs, often parts of the karakia will be hidden by the water, which is a concept Elliot finds exciting. “It’s almost like the tide telling you what you can and can’t have.” Today his visit is principally about seeing and feeling what the abrasive blasting can do to the concrete. Bay Sandblasting Services used a steel stencil with some lettering and showed what they could do on a slab of concrete. The process can be hard to explain, but apparently the abrasive (which can be sand or metal shot) mixes with air and fires out a hose at 300km per hour. If it makes contact with a person, it can rip their skin off – hence its usefulness at carving into concrete. Bay Sandblasting Services owner Peter Henderson, Access to Water project leader Morgan Jones, HEB Construction project manager Dean Taylor, and Elliot Collins discuss working with the tide to finish the project. A couple of demonstrations showed the different depths that can be achieved with the blasting, and the different degrees of roughness the surface of the stairs can have. When the time comes to work on the real thing, it will be quite an undertaking, as the blasters will have to work with the tide, as will Elliot when he begins painting. As for the stairs themselves, they’re virtually all ready and waiting in the HEB Construction yards. HEB Construction project manager Dean Taylor says he’s seen a lot of kids down at the waterfront these school holidays jumping into the water, and thinks the tidal stairs and pier will be a big drawcard once the project finishes in April. Some of the tidal stairs stacked and waiting at the HEB Construction yards in the Mount.

The artist behind the designs for the new tidal stairs is in town today to test the concrete he’ll be working with.

Elliot Collins joined representatives from the council and HEB Construction at Bay Sandblasting Services this morning to check out their work.

Elliot’s contribution to the project will be a tukutuku panel “in pieces”, spread out across the tidal stairs.

Imagine the traditional shapes you might expect to see on a tukutuku panel, but arranged almost haphazardly, and ingrained in the stairs.

“It should seem like they’re meant to be constructed later – metaphorically, of course,” he says.

He’s also going to add some “hidden elements” to the stairs – small drawings such as crabs or shells, which people can discover if they look close enough.

He says the project itself, with the stairs and the pier, is quite bold and strong. So these little designs will provide some balance to that.

The vertical faces of the stairs will also have a karakia, in Maori and English, ingrained upon them. It’s been gifted by kaumatua Peri Kohu, and tells the origin story of Mauao and how the harbour was formed.

Due to the nature of the stairs, often parts of the karakia will be hidden by the water, which is a concept Elliot finds exciting.

“It’s almost like the tide telling you what you can and can’t have.”

Today his visit is principally about seeing and feeling what the abrasive blasting can do to the concrete. Bay Sandblasting Services used a steel stencil with some lettering and showed what they could do on a slab of concrete.

The process can be hard to explain, but apparently the abrasive (which can be sand or metal shot) mixes with air and fires out a hose at 300km per hour.

If it makes contact with a person, it can rip their skin off – hence its usefulness at carving into concrete.

Bay Sandblasting Services owner Peter Henderson, Access to Water project leader Morgan Jones, HEB Construction project manager Dean Taylor, and Elliot Collins discuss working with the tide to finish the project.

A couple of demonstrations showed the different depths that can be achieved with the blasting, and the different degrees of roughness the surface of the stairs can have.

When the time comes to work on the real thing, it will be quite an undertaking, as the blasters will have to work with the tide, as will Elliot when he begins painting.

As for the stairs themselves, they’re virtually all ready and waiting in the HEB Construction yards.

HEB Construction project manager Dean Taylor says he’s seen a lot of kids down at the waterfront these school holidays jumping into the water, and thinks the tidal stairs and pier will be a big drawcard once the project finishes in April.

Some of the tidal stairs stacked and waiting at the HEB Construction yards in the Mount.

Posted on 20-01-2017 22:22 | By CC8

More absolute money wasting by civil servants . It is almost as if they sit around working out how they can take a simple almost useful idea and make it into a money pit. Firstly there is no reason to blast this into the concrete, by the method described, it will involve making a steel stencil for each element . Where is the art? The person making the stencils with Autocad? The person cutting them out with a laser or water cutter? ( Which by the way could be used directly on the concrete, saving one expensive process), or is the art the sandblasting operator using a stencil? Can someone tell me why it has to be done in the water , why not in the yard before the steps are installed? Jimmy Ehu...I agree, it will be green in a week gone in two.

Posted on 20-01-2017 18:46 | By Mackka

I wonder if this new - tukutuku panel in pieces, - was included into the original cost pricings - it has not been mentioned or shown in artist images before now. An explanation is needed here!! No doubt it will show in the ’cost overruns’. Give them an inch and ’they’ will take a mile - along with the money!!

Posted on 20-01-2017 15:39 | By Jimmy Ehu

After your first visit to see a set of slime incrusted concrete steps, how many subsequent times will you be visiting the CBD/Waterfront precinct?, the pontoons not an issue and I hope to see small children and families fishing from it, the steps are inane!!!

Posted on 20-01-2017 15:15 | By dookie

Another story, same old bunch of moaners... This will be fantastic for the city and look forward to it’s completion. Golly gosh, I bet your truck generates more of a health and safety issue.

Posted on 20-01-2017 14:49 | By whatsinaname

What a waste of money

Posted on 20-01-2017 14:23 | By Gammelvindnz

Couldn’t disagree with Hot stuff more that this is a waste of money, I look forward to having a pier/wharf back on the Tauranga waterfront.

Posted on 20-01-2017 12:23 | By old trucker

All that dust would be a health and safety issue, would it not, one would think, a spray of water to keep dust down, my 2 pennies worth Thankyou No1, 10-4 out.

Posted on 20-01-2017 12:10 | By Hot stuff

Waste of the rate payers money What is wrong with this council this is one of the most absurd thing the Council has done . They should be sorting out that white elephant of a building that’s sitting there with Hartley anyone in while they are leasing another and wasting more money

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