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Westpac Newlands |
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| Project
address |
Hurring Place/Newlands Road |
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Newlands, Wellington |
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| Client name |
Any Curran |
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| Contractor |
Geoff Carr Builders Ltd |
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| Architectural
design |
SYAL implemented a sketch design by others |
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| Engineer |
Steven Young & Associates Ltd |
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| Consultants |
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| Our role |
Principal Consultant |
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| Description
of project |
Three large units of office/warehousing to a repeated module |
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Type |
Office/warehouse/workshop |
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Size |
4000 sq m |
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Value |
$1.5M |
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Date/ |
c 1988 at the end of the property boom |
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Construction period |
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| Design
features |
Conventional steel portal frames at the rear |
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Two-storey concrete stucture at the front - clad with polystyrene
spandrels |
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| Special
features |
Polystyrene spandrels has proved durable for more 25 years. |
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| Management |
Design build |
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| Special
requirements |
Foundations on site partly rock, partly compacted fill. |
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| Our special
input |
High-speed design build process |
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| What we
learned |
Speculative developments have little demand when markets collapse |
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| What would
we improve |
Stud height of 5.2m too low for modern use. |
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