2018 – Wallace Building Contractors under its Wellington Studwelders division installed ComFlor over 16 levels for this Office Building at the site of the old BP House. The BP Building was damaged in the Seddon Earthquakes when the stairwell disconnected from the side of the Building. Engineers found the building was too extensively damaged to save and so it was demolished to make way for this new 18000m2 16 level office tower.
The building was designed by Dunning Thornton using base isolaters on top of new piles in the old BP house basement. The Steel frame used was a new “Diagrid” system eliminating most internal columns in the building to provide large 1200m2 floor plates.
ComFlor 60 and 80 was specified as the flooring system and with over 18,000m2 and 35,000 shear studs, it was the biggest ComFlor project ever undertaken in Wellington to date.