RCP came in for the latter stages of design and ran the project through procurement and delivery as Engineer's Representative. Holding that date on a live campus meant keeping the build moving through the problems that would normally stall it.
When a late seismic change hit the lecture theatres, RCP ran an expedited variation and producer-statement process so the contractor could keep lining walls rather than stop work, and coordinated the fire and security systems across three connected buildings so those interfaces did not become a bottleneck.
Sustainability runs through the building and the master planning behind it, in its seismic design, its energy and material efficiency and a flexibility meant to keep it useful for decades. Finished for the 2020 academic year, the IL4 building is built to keep operating after a major earthquake, and gives engineering at Auckland a single home where five departments, once split across the campus, now sit and research together.
