Two Egis projects won top awards at the New Zealand Property Industry Awards in Auckland on Friday, June 14 2024.
Te Pou ō Mata-Au | Clutha District War Memorial & Community Centre, Balclutha, won an Excellence Award in the Civic, Health & Arts Property category and the Bluebird Foods Automated Warehouse, Auckland, won a Merit Award in the CBRE Industrial Property category.
Hosted by Property Council New Zealand, the Property Industry Awards is the most prestigious property awards program in New Zealand, celebrating excellence in design and innovation in the built environment and recognizing projects that provide an outstanding return or delivery of service potential on investment of funds, creating value for owners, tenants and the wider community.
The design considerations for the NZ$20 million Clutha District War Memorial & Community Centre put sustainability front and centre. A feature of the structure is its corten steel entrance and wide eaves to reduce solar gain, increase the durability of the main structure and maintain thermal comfort. In considering the embodied carbon of the building, concrete was used only in limited areas for building performance requirements. This meant less weight to be upheld in the event of an earthquake and therefore less concrete required in the foundation pads reducing the project's overall embodied carbon.
The Bluebird Foods Automated Warehouse is a next-generation industrial warehouse built for New Zealand snack maker Bluebird hosts a state-of-the-art automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS) costing NZ$26 million. The warehouse spans 3,438m² and with an apex of 38m, it boasts an internal volume of approximately 120,330m³. The challenge for Bluebird was consolidating several warehousing operations into one streamlined facility. The solution developed in conjunction with property and construction experts Calder Stewart was to build up, rather than out. In the lead-up to the delivery of the facility, there were many challenges to solve including building a new warehouse on an operational site, within the flight path of Auckland Airport. The building height also required new thinking regarding building and fire codes.
An innovative solution using earth bolts to secure propping for the steel structure in construction reduced the need for precast concrete restraint ballast and so reduced embodied carbon on the project.
Photo: Award-winning team (L-R): Eric Simeone (Egis), Hayden Vanderwolf (Tainui Group Holdings), Sean Gardiner (Egis), Kelvin O'Connell (Calder Stewart), Richard Johnson (Calder Stewart), Natasha Munro (Clutha Community Hub Charitable Trust), Jeff Sutherland (Calder Stewart), Dale Anderson (Clutha Community Hub Charitable Trust)