Rangi Ruru Girls’ School Wins Gold Tonight in Auckland

Rangi Ruru Girls’ School Wins Gold Tonight in Auckland

Three of Rangi Ruru’s stunning new buildings have been awarded the top prize in the Coffey Education and Arts Property Section of the 2015 Property Council New Zealand and Rider Levett Bucknall Awards annual awards tonight in Auckland.

Rangi Principal Julie Moor described the win as “fabulous for the team” as the school’s Science Building, the Gibson Centre and the Mana Wahine Building were awarded Gold just after 930pm.

The awards are an annual celebration of excellence in property development judged on economic and financial factors, project vision and innovation (including degree of difficulty), design and construction, owner and user satisfaction, and sustainability and efficiency of operation.

Julie Moor says it was important that the projects delivered the very best for students without encumbering the school and parents, current and future, with high debt.

“This was absolutely key in our planning and execution,” she says. “We needed to be confident that we were getting excellent value in terms of outcomes, for what we were spending. Quality could not be compromised and prudence had to be maintained with regards to budgets and expenditure.”

Moor says the number of buildings included in the nomination for the Coffey Education and Arts Property Award,is testament to the teamwork on the campus redevelopment, called Project Blue Sky.

“Having such a professional well-tuned team means that everyone got on with what they do best and achieved the very best outcomes,” she says. “That’s what happens when a vision is truly understood, shared and worked on by everyone, together.”

Ms Moor says the Rangi Ruru campus has some of the most outstanding buildings in the country.

“These are purpose built, modern, sustainable and just as importantly I think, really striking. Form follows function and these new buildings show what can be achieved when that function is so well understood by everyone from the school community through to the architects, who then design something that enables that function to be the most effective it can be - while of course being so striking at the same time.”

Melbourne Architects McIldowie Partners are behind tonight’s award winning buildings, Leighs is the construction company (they were awarded gold in the Education sector at the recent New Zealand Commercial Project Awards Ceremony in Auckland for Rangi Ruru Girls’ School Science Centre, General Academic Building (Mana Wahine) and the Gibson Centre),and Stewart Barnett is the Project Blue Sky project director. http://www.rangiruru.school.nz/project-blue-sky

http://www.rangiruru.school.nz/rangi-in-the-news/rangi-ruru-buildings-take-gold-at-new-zealand-commercial-project-awards

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