Healthcare Logistics

Industrial

Healthcare Logistics

Property Services

Project
Industrial

Location
58 Richard Pearse Drive
Mangere

Client
Property for Industry

Value
$2.3 Million

Period
6 Months

Consultants
Architects /
T Plus Architects

Structural /
MSC Consulting

On the face of it, this extension in Richard Pearce Drive, near Auckland Airport, was as straightforward as it gets: 3000-odd square metres of unenclosed warehousing – a breezeway, essentially – with a metal roof and sheet iron cladding, planted on a simple concrete slab.

But nothing’s ever that easy. The site is tenanted by a highly busy health logistics operator, with consignments of pharmaceuticals arriving from the airport and others being dispatched around the country in a constant flow. Allowing that operation to proceed unimpeded became the project’s primary challenge.

To minimise disruption, the team used a messy but very rapid piling system known as CFA, in which the concrete is injected as the bore drill is removed. Likewise, during the structural steel phase and the services fit out, they either worked very early in the morning or after hours. Extra care was taken to communicate clearly and often with the tenant, and to manage traffic movement on site.