Date Completed: 2013
Budget: $5M
Location: Nelson
Client: Cawthron Institute
Role: Project Management & Quantity Surveying
The Cawthron Institute is New Zealand’s largest independent research institute specialising in environmental research and research for the food and aquaculture industries. It also has substantial testing laboratories and provides seafood safety testing for key sectors of the aquaculture industry.
The new $5 million facility on its Halifax Street site will provide nearly 400 square metres of high specification laboratory space, to replace some of its present facilities built in the 1970s. In addition to laboratories the building will also include office space, meeting rooms and staff facilities.
This building is stage one of a four stage project to replace the facilities and laboratories in the Rigg building on the Halifax Street campus. Two key requirements of the building’s design are sustainability and a design in keeping with the character of the neighbourhood.
The project includes the demolitions of existing structures.