Site Visit: The Living Pā with TBIG & LT McGuinness Ltd

Join NAWIC Wellington members... and representatives from Victoria University Wellington, The Building Intelligence Group, Dunning Thornton Consultants, Tennent Brown Architects and LT McGuinness Ltd. 

We are excited to show you around and share the learnings in this challenging and complex project. 

ABOUT THE PROJECT:

Hear from the project team as they take you around The Living Pa redevelopment for Victoria University Wellington. This project proposes a new three-storey innovation hub at Te Herenga Waka Marae, Victoria University of Wellington. As an extension of the marae, and joining the wharenui, - Te Tumu Herenga Waka – the Living Pā, will be a place where many people can come together to explore how we can build a more just, and sustainable world. The Living Pā is striving to achieve full Living Building Challenge certification. This is a building system intended to push our understanding of green buildings and to transform how we think about buildings in the future.

This will be Aotearoa’s most sustainable educational facility. This project has been developed as a living lab for Māori studies. This structure is designed to be fully self-resilient from decentralised infrastructure; rainwater harvesting provides all water required on-site, all grey & black water is processed on site via the Membrane Bioreactor water treatment system & all power will be solar generated. The Living Pā redevelopment proposes to meet the Living Building Challenge (LBC) Program. The project will be a demonstration of how we should be building for the future and will provide us with many lessons that we can apply to all of our projects as we work towards a low carbon future.

DATE & TIME: Wednesday 17th May - 4:00pm

VENUE: The Living Pā, 42 Kelburn Parade, Wellington

COST: FREE to NAWIC members, this event is limited to 50 people so please book your space consciously. Anyone is welcome to join NAWIC here.

BRING: Please note this is an active construction site. Hard hat, high vis and steel caps. LT McGuinness have requirements about specific hard hats on their sites. These need to be rigger helmets and comply with EN12492. Chin straps must be done up at all times. 

Some spare visitor hats may be available onsite for those who get in touch with the NAWIC Committee (rsvpwgtn@nawic.org.nz) in advance of the event

Image credit - Kasia Crawford Photography

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Please note: NAWIC is a voluntary organisation, committed to its obligations as a PCBU under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.   Amongst other things, this requires NAWIC to take all practicable steps to eliminate, isolate or minimize hazards that our event attendees are exposed to. Health and safety is a shared responsibility.