Burnham Regional Supply Facility

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.

Working in an operational airport environment, including ‘airside’, required strict adherence to security (including scheduling works to ensure staff have clearance prior to entering restricted zones) and careful management of site activities.