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Retirement living at Red Beach, built as an open neighbourhood of streets, paths and shared spaces.

Metlifecare Gulf Rise

Client

Metlifecare

Location

Auckland

Status

Completed 2019

Older New Zealanders increasingly want to stay active, connected and part of a wider community as they age. Metlifecare built Gulf Rise at Red Beach to meet that, a masterplanned village on around five hectares of the former Peninsula Golf Course, laid out as an open neighbourhood of streets, paths and shared spaces that connect with the community around it.

Gulf Rise brings together independent-living villas and apartments, shared social and wellbeing facilities, and the Weiti Care home. Weiti Care adds 36 care suites, 23 for rest-home and hospital-level care and 13 for secure dementia, helping meet a shortage of high-quality care in North Auckland.

Supporting delivery across two precincts

RCP supported delivery across both Precinct 1 and Precinct 2. In the first precinct it provided project management and the Engineer's Representative role through the earthworks, civil infrastructure, villas and apartments, and prepared the tender and contract documentation behind the major infrastructure. In Precinct 2 it led the day-to-day design, procurement and construction management of the staged aged-care and residential development, and reviewed the programme for the care building.

Much of the work ran with several contractors on site at once and, in the later stages, with residents already living around it, so construction was staged and off-site methods like prefabricated balconies and bathroom pods kept the build quiet and on programme. Across its precincts, RCP helped bring an open, connected retirement village out of the ground at Red Beach, now home to more than 270 people.