Burnham Regional Supply Facility

At 9,450m² this new design and build project provides teaching and research laboratories, workspaces, meeting places and flat-floor teaching areas as well as a social and collaborative space with associated amenities.

Leighs delivered a fully base-isolated IL4 compound for Airways NZ, housing staff and equipment. Designed to the new US post-event resilience standard, it’s NZ’s most seismically resilient building, ensuring operational continuity.

Though the buildings appear deceptively simple, “just” twelve 30m² glasshouses and a 110m² headhouse built on a standard slab with a seismic join between the two buildings, it was the first of its kind in New Zealand.