Project Details

The Parliament Precinct is undergoing substantial upgrade to modernise and improve its building stock. This includes new buildings for offices, meetings and events, deliveries and security, and precinct infrastructure. Fire HQ is providing fire engineering design services across these projects.

Of particular note is the proposed Museum Street building, which is a six storey, base isolated office building including a bridge connection to Parliament House and a basement connected to the Beehive and other buildings.

The building features substantial use of timber throughout mass timber structure which contributes to the building’s 6-Star Green Star rating, and also featuring tukutuku panels as part of a strong cultural narrative.

Mass timber and feature timber construction presents specific technical and regulatory challenges in fire engineering and passive firestopping design. Mass timber is a developing area for technical fire engineering in New Zealand and sits within a changing legislative environment. By remaining at the forefront of these changes and working proactively with regulatory stakeholders, manufacturers, and the design team the fire engineering design was able to be developed and approved in a timely confident manner with the confidence of client and regulatory stakeholders.