PROJECT

Hastings District Courthouse

CLIENT

Ministry of Justice

Our team gets results:

Stuart Lyons - Project Director / Hawke’s Bay Lead

Hastings district courthOuse

The construction of a new Hastings District Courthouse provided multi-jurisdiction court facilities and custodial facilities utilising best practice sustainable design principles. At 3,300m² over two floors, the courthouse is double the size of its predecessor, including four courtrooms, mediation and hearing rooms, seven judge’s chambers and custodial areas. All courtrooms are fitted with state of the art technology including video conferencing facilities.

There was careful management of the programme to meet a tight opening deadline set by the Ministry. We expedited the programme to achieve significant time savings by commencing all site preparation works outside of the main contract.

Quality was paramount for the new courthouse. Public areas needed to be robust yet attractive while the judicial areas needed to be tastefully lavish. Our experience with this client meant we understood their expectations and from here we carried a heavy weighting on this key project aspect. The result is a quality building that has balanced cost with design and functionality superbly.