Marquee Rigger Competition

Marquee Rigger Competition 23rd July 2024

In collaboration with Baytex, New Zealand’s only manufacturer of marquees, we held the very first Marquee Rigging Competition, to identify the fastest HIANZ rigging team in NZ! The competition took place at HIRECON24 on Tuesday 23rd July.   

We had four teams battling it out to see who was the fastest to rig and dismantle a Baytex 6mtr Fete c/w walls to their installation specifications and using the APEX training and  best practice guidelines. The winning Team were The X-Site Group North, congratulations to Daniel, Nate and Richard!

 

Marquee Auction

Congratulations to the winner of the brand new Baytex 6mtr Fete marquee, Kate and Jason Blundell from Silk Estate placed the highest bid to win the auction. The auction took place at Happy Hour on the first day of HIRECON24 (23rd July). 

HIANZ and Baytex collaborated to auction off the marquee used in the above competition to the highest bidder at HIRECON24!

Kate and Jason chose to donate their winning bid to Heartfelt NZ and the Canterbury West Coast Air Rescue Trust in a 3-way joint donation!