Environment Canterbury Offices

Scope: Kaizen Fault Detection and Diagnostics, Kaizen Energy, and Advisory Services.

Location: Canterbury, New Zealand

Partner: Setpoint Solutions

Client: Environment Canterbury Regional Council

About the Project: With their old building out of action following the 2010-11 Canterbury earthquakes, the Naylor Love Canterbury team began constructing a purpose-built office for Environment Canterbury (ECan) in Tuam Street in 2013. The building provides five storeys (7,000m²) of office space with a full height atrium through the centre, a basement car park, and a two-storey cycle and locker building with space for 120 bikes.

As befits a building for the organisation responsible for a wide range of environment-related governance and services in Canterbury, the ECan building utilises the latest in environmentally sustainable features, including a ground-source heat exchange unit for heating and cooling.

The base isolated building is also seismically strong, having been built to 120% of code, with piling to approximately 16 metres below the ground surface, and more than 7,800m³ of soil excavated for the basement carpark.

Read more about it here.