Albany Senior High School
A challenging yet rewarding project for the Auckland team
New Zealand’s first public senior secondary school is open for business on Auckland’s North Shore and it doesn’t just push the boundaries for new schools, it breaks them.
The Ministry of Education challenged Arrow International to transform a bush clad four-hectare site on Albany Highway with an ecologically important stream running through it into a state-of-the-art secondary school that can cater for up to 1,300 students (Years 11–13). Added to this already complicated mix was the restoration of a heritage school building that has been located on site since 1897.
The 20,000m2 five-storey architecturally designed school comprises of two levels of car parking and three levels of learning communities with specialist areas for the likes of art, science, hard tech, media, dance & music, a separate gymnasium complex with a sports field and hard courts.
Over the course of 13-months, the construction team at Arrow International dealt with this complex project and ambitious timeframe with integrity and passion, producing a school built for the next generation where students and staff are fully integrated with flexible and open learning spaces which allows for innovative learning to take place.
AWARDS
NZIOB Award in the $25M - $75M category for Craig Brosnan (Project Director).
OTHER EDUCATION PROJECTS
CLIENT
Ministry of Education
LOCATION
Albany, Auckland
VALUE
$60M
UNIQUE ASPECTS
4 Green Star rating
