Written by Steven Young
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012 |

Project Name |
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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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 14 March 2012 )
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