National Category Winner: Construction Marketing Services Education Award
Project: Rolleston College
Entrant
Hawkins
Project Partners
Hawkins (Construction Company), ASC Architects (Architect/Designer)
Owned by
HRL Morrison
Rolleston College, which opened in Term 1 2017, is the first secondary school in Rolleston built on a 6.4 hectare ‘greenfield’ site. The building has been staged to accommodate roll growth in the Rolleston Secondary School catchment, one of the fastest growing communities in New Zealand. The state of the art facility was designed to achieve a 5 Greenstar built rating and supports learning that emphasises community, collaboration and connectivity in all aspects of school life.
National Category Winner: Construction Marketing Services Education Award
Project: Ara Institute of Canterbury - Kahukura Building
Entrant
Hawkins
Project Partners
Jasmax (Architect/Designer), Hawkins (Construction Company)
Owned by
Ara Institute of Canterbury
The Ara Institute of Canterbury - Kahukura Building project was a new 6,500m2, 3 storey (Engineering and Architectural Studies) Building for Ara Institute. The building is named after the Maori word for a chief's cloak and the facility's design was based on a kahukura. The facade colour and patterning represents an abstracted feathered cloak and the timber lining is also routed on the inside to echo the woven inner flax strands.
National Category Winner: Construction Marketing Services Education Award
Project: Unitec Student Hub | Te Puna
Entrant
ASC Architects
Project Partners
Structus (Engineer), Ebert Construction Limited (Construction Company), RDT Pacific (Project Manager), ASC Architects (Architect/Designer), WSP | OPUS (Engineer)
Owned by
Wairaka Land Co Limited
The Unitec Student Hub is focussed on the student experience. The building is designed to enhance the social learning aspect of education at Unitec, making the campus a more attractive place for students to spend time (the ‘sticky campus’ model). The result is a unique space with a strong sense of place.
National Category Winner: Construction Marketing Services Education Award
Project: Rototuna High Schools
Entrant
Arrow International (NZ) Limited
Project Partners
New Zealand Consulting Engineers Limited (Engineer), Jasmax (Architect/Designer), Maltbys Limited (Quantity Surveyor), Opus International Consultants (Engineer), Aurecon (Engineer), Arrow International (NZ) Limited (Construction Company)
Owned by
Ministry of Education
Rototuna High Schools demonstrates just how fast a well-managed collaborative team can move on a $68M build when you are doing the design and construction simultaneously. The project team had a full, operational junior school in just over a year. Through superlative collaboration and coordination, time and cost overruns were mitigated by a number of innovations and techniques.
National Category Winner: Construction Marketing Services Education Award
Project: Haeata Community Campus
Entrant
Hawkins
Project Partners
Hawkins (Construction Company), ASC Architects (Architect/Designer)
Owned by
HRL Morrison
The Haeata Community Campus' design of this new 11,000m2 school centres around a hub called ‘He Kakano’ (the seed pod) and responds to the desire for the school to be the centre of the community but also to be integrated with it. The school is seen as a village, inspiring pride and confidence in the community and public education. The campus was designed to achieve a 5 Greenstar built rating, to provide good lighting, acoustics and ventilation and to meet a high standard of technology.
National Category Winner: Construction Marketing Services Education Award
Project: Toi Ohomai - Te Ara o Mauao
Entrant
Chow:Hill
Project Partners
Chow:Hill (Architect/Designer), Marra Construction (Construction Company), Greenstone Group (Project Manager)
Owned by
Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
The Te Ara o Mauao Facility and adjacent landscape is designed as part of a wider Creative Arts and Applied Technology Precinct. The concept of a collaborative urban laneway has underpinned the design of both interior spaces and building form. It is defined as a significant ‘transitional’ building for Toi Ohomai, moving the organisation from silo’d (prefab) classrooms towards a modern project based learning environment.
National Category Winner: Construction Marketing Services Education Award
Project: Rakahuri – New Build
Entrant
Naylor Love Construction
Project Partners
Rangiora High School (Owner Representative), Jasmax (Architect/Designer), The Building Intelligence Group (Project Manager), Naylor Love Construction (Construction Company)
Owned by
Ministry of Education
This building has been called Rakahuri, the Maori name for the nearby Ashley River, and is intended to support the school’s move to a Flexible Learning Environment (FLE). During construction, the school maintained all functionality, despite the building dividing the campus in half and being in the hub of the school. Staff and students are enjoying being in the new facility, which is living up to all the expectations of its design.
National Category Winner: Construction Marketing Services Education Award
Project: Mother Bernard Towers Science Centre at St Mary's College
Entrant
RCG Limited
Project Partners
RCC Education Limited (Construction Company), RCG Limited (Architect/Designer)
The creation of the Mother Bernard Towers Science Centre began with St Mary's College identifying an urgent need for further science teaching spaces. The new 1700m2 Science faculty has its own distinctive character and is an enlivening contribution to the Colleges Architectural DNA, both in form and function.