RCP managed the project for the University from 2021, through design, procurement, demolition, construction and close-out. The work uncovered borer in the timber, damaged concrete roofs and far more asbestos than expected, and the asbestos alone threatened a twelve-week delay, held in check by splitting the demolition into stages so the completion date stayed put. The job was tendered at the peak of post-Covid cost rises, which kept scope and budget under constant watch as it ran.
Wherever the original fabric could be saved it was, salvaged rimu, timber and brickwork worked back in, many of the original doors kept, and leftover material passed on to community projects like the Man Shed. Strengthened to 60 percent NBS and reopened in February 2025, Ivey West and Memorial Hall are part of daily life at Lincoln again, a cultural narrative by Morgan Darlison running through the wallpaper, glass and doors, and Memorial Hall restored as the university's place of remembrance. Their return has been a lift for the university and its community, two significant buildings back at the centre of campus.
