Ōtautahi Christchurch

In a prominent area of Christchurch, Ilam Medical Centre is a two-storey 1,200sqm multi-tenancy health building, which has become a major asset for the Ilam and Fendalton local communities.

The development caters for an array of healthcare related tenants including a medical centre, dentist, pharmacy, and another six smaller practitioner fitouts. The project was characterised by its complicated construction sequencing, which required staged occupation for the tenants.  

TSA Riley project managed the design, procurement, and construction of the medical centre and also provided the role of Engineer to the Contract. Our team worked closely with the directors, practice staff, and project design team to agree a layout which would work well operationally, while retaining an efficient and attractive building form.    

After a decade of searching for new premises, Marian College found an innovative solution in an unexpected location – a former Foodstuffs distribution centre. Following the 2011 Christchurch Earthquakes, the school was forced to vacate its North Parade Richmond campus and after an extensive journey settled on its new premises.

The project involved transforming a 17,500sqm warehouse site into a fully functional school for its roll of 430 students. It includes 27 full-sized classrooms to accommodate future growth, a reception and administration area, staff offices staff room, Whare, a learning centre with a library, chapel, performing arts wing, and a canteen. It also has a full-sized indoor basketball court, two netball courts, soccer pitch, a black box performance area, and a gym.

Following demolishing half of the building, the remaining 8,500sqm was repurposed to house the college’s classrooms and associated buildings, resulting in cost savings and meeting the school’s sustainability targets.

To support the school in realising its vision of establishing a permanent location, TSA Riley was engaged to deliver comprehensive project management services. Our responsibilities encompassed coordinating the design process, conducting value engineering exercises, procuring consultants, overseeing consent-related activities (such as obtaining building consent and navigating the outline plan process), managing enabling works (including the sale and removal of existing infrastructure and addressing any contaminated material), procuring the main contractor for construction, facilitating construction contract negotiations, managing the construction phase, and ensuring effective stakeholder management between neighbours, the college, and school community.

The Netsal Centre is a brand new, 10,000sqm indoor sports facility. It’s bringing netball into the future by providing a new home for the Christchurch Netball Centre – whose home for over 100 years was a 36-court outdoor court in Hagley Park.

As a Design and Build project, Netsal is a purpose-built indoor netball facility at Ngā Puna Wai Sports Hub in Christchurch with 10 international standard courts. As well as netball, the Centre hosts rhythmic gymnastics, volleyball, and futsal. The project is significant to Christchurch as the new facility secures the future of Netball in the region for current players and generations of athletes to come, with a focus on women’s sports.

A generous benefactor who donated $10 million to the project was key to getting this project underway. Their vision was to provide a high-quality community facility to support the future of women’s sports in Canterbury.

The new centre features high quality wooden sprung flooring, wall mounted scoreboards, netting, ventilation, and a solid frame for several sporting codes to base themselves. Additionally, there is a mezzanine for viewing games, umpire space; four changing rooms; large storeroom, café area with seating and a view to the courts; two multi-use rooms; medical room; event control room; reception; office area; and extensive off-street parking.

Separate to the Netsal Centre, during the early design stage of the project, and to help deliver the required work on schedule, Christchurch City Council engaged TSA to directly to project manage the external Ngā Puna Wai Civil and Landscaping Works. This area contains 443 carparks including 10 accessible and two EV parks; over 25,000 native plantings; bespoke pedestrian footbridges; and irrigation, drainage, and rain gardens to service the area. Overseeing and managing these works as well as Netsal Centre, enabled efficient coordination and collaboration between the different parties, leading to a successful synergy of design and ensured the project stayed on track.

Appollo Projects were the construction partner, with TSA Riley providing full project management services from feasibility to project completion. Our involvement included a full tender review and recommendation, involvement in all design phases and a steady presence during construction.

Photo credit: Hamish Hobbs – Kicker Creative

KiwiRail’s Hillside Workshops have been undergoing a major reconstruction, which will give a new lease of life to a site that has an important place in New Zealand’s rail heritage.

KiwiRail currently carries out maintenance on locomotives, wagons, and passenger cars at various locations in the South Island. A need to upgrade, rehabilitate, and replace existing Dunedin mechanical facilities was prompted by the procurement of the new South Island Locomotive fleet, changes to the fleet type and size, interim facility constraints brought on by aging structures, and historical layout concerns.

The design was staged across three main vertical building and infrastructure design packages, at the crux of which is a technologically advanced and innovative circa 5000sqm mechanical workshop – complete with heavy lift loco jacks, gantry cranes, jib cranes, traverser and electric shunt engines. The project also includes a 1600sqm shared office space for an estimated 170 staff, along with infrastructure and services buildings.

TSA Riley has worked on the project since 2021, providing full project management services including Engineer to the Contract to take the redevelopment from inception right through to completion.

In a prominent area of Christchurch, Ilam Medical Centre is a two-storey 1,200sqm multi-tenancy health building, which has become a major asset for the Ilam and Fendalton local communities.

The development caters for an array of healthcare related tenants including a medical centre, dentist, pharmacy, and another six smaller practitioner fitouts. The project was characterised by its complicated construction sequencing, which required staged occupation for the tenants.  

TSA Riley project managed the design, procurement, and construction of the medical centre and also provided the role of Engineer to the Contract. Our team worked closely with the directors, practice staff, and project design team to agree a layout which would work well operationally, while retaining an efficient and attractive building form.    

After a decade of searching for new premises, Marian College found an innovative solution in an unexpected location – a former Foodstuffs distribution centre. Following the 2011 Christchurch Earthquakes, the school was forced to vacate its North Parade Richmond campus and after an extensive journey settled on its new premises.

The project involved transforming a 17,500sqm warehouse site into a fully functional school for its roll of 430 students. It includes 27 full-sized classrooms to accommodate future growth, a reception and administration area, staff offices staff room, Whare, a learning centre with a library, chapel, performing arts wing, and a canteen. It also has a full-sized indoor basketball court, two netball courts, soccer pitch, a black box performance area, and a gym.

Following demolishing half of the building, the remaining 8,500sqm was repurposed to house the college’s classrooms and associated buildings, resulting in cost savings and meeting the school’s sustainability targets.

To support the school in realising its vision of establishing a permanent location, TSA Riley was engaged to deliver comprehensive project management services. Our responsibilities encompassed coordinating the design process, conducting value engineering exercises, procuring consultants, overseeing consent-related activities (such as obtaining building consent and navigating the outline plan process), managing enabling works (including the sale and removal of existing infrastructure and addressing any contaminated material), procuring the main contractor for construction, facilitating construction contract negotiations, managing the construction phase, and ensuring effective stakeholder management between neighbours, the college, and school community.