The Piano Centre for Music and the Arts, Performing Arts Precinct, Christchurch CBD
Three-storey office building with attached large auditorium and back-of-house facilities, including food service areas. Set in the heart of Christchurch’s new Performing Arts Precinct.
Precast concrete shear walls, high level of acoustic consideration and construction access co-ordination, large open auditorium and performance spaces, and feature façade elements. Contaminated site required rigorous investigation into merits and seismic performance of various foundation systems.
Architect: Wilkie & Bruce | Contractor: Leighs Construction
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Ruamoko Solutions is an award-winning specialist New Zealand based consulting structural engineering firm.
At Ruamoko Solutions, we take structure seriously. It is our passion, and our speciality, and we have developed a reputation for innovative solutions which is reflected in the numerous industry awards we have received.
Our specialised interest in earthquake engineering and strong ties to cutting-edge research has placed us in a prominent position following the recent Canterbury Earthquakes. We have led the way in pioneering seismic design for the Christchurch rebuild including the first post-earthquake use of base-isolation, PRESSS and other damage avoidance technology, such as the world’s first bolted-link EBF seismic frames.
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