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.

Undertaken in an operational, security-critical environment. To reduce security risks and ensure foreign objects didn’t make their way airside, the units were constructed off-site and transported across the apron for installation.

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.