BASE-ISOLATED FOR SUPERIOR SAFETY

Like the award-winning neighbouring PwC Centre, this brand-new commercial building will be low-rise and base-isolated for superior seismic resilience.

Base isolation significantly reduces the likelihood of significant seismic damage and reduces the amount the building moves during an earthquake, providing profound safety and wellbeing benefits for occupants.

This seismic resilience is similar to key strategic buildings such as Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington Hospital and the Wellington Police Station and provides business continuity assurance for a 1-in-1,000-year seismic event.

Constructed by LT McGuinness, one of New Zealand’s pre-eminent building companies, many of the building’s other specifications also go well beyond what is required or expected by code or convention.