The Hub at Unitec: A $1.5M structural fit-out project featuring a modern 6,900sqm student centre with innovative design elements including exposed glue-laminated beams, diamond-shaped skylights, and a stunning living wall, completed in September 2017.
Contract Value: $1.5M
Contract: Structural fit out carpentry package
Client: Ebert Construction
Completion Date: September 2017
Modern building to suit progressive learning. Unitec’s new student centre, Te Puna, is a 6,900sqm modern and flexible place dedicated to student services, teaching and study spaces, library facilities and a new student health centre. The construction of this architecturally pleasing space included exposed glue-laminated beams supported by structural steel columns and struts to create a floating roof structure, diamond-shaped air-filled pillow skylights, geometric feature walls, picture-framed balcony pods and a stunning 10x4m living wall of native plants.
Timelapse: http://www.unitec.ac.nz/futurecampus/?page_id=816
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