Airways Christchurch

Airport Facilities

Client: Augusta Funds Management
Architects: Warren & Mahoney
Location: Christchurch
Date Completed: 2019

Augusta Funds Management completed the development of an Air Traffic Control Facility - a Tier 3 Facility & an Importance Level 4 Building in October 2019. This facility is managed 24/7 and houses a data centre and an operations room for the air traffic controllers. Auckland and Christchurch duplicate facilities were developed almost simultaneously - one centre, two locations. This building on the Airways campus in Christchurch is on base isolators.

End-user: Airways
Developer: Augusta Funds Management

The facility includes a Equipment Room (approximately 150m2) housing 48 racks of equipment. The Equipment Room was designed as a Tier 3 data centre as defined in the Uptime Institute Tier Classification System with additional features for improved resilience.

The facility also includes a (approximately 400m2) Operations Room, is connected to the same services as the Equipment Room to achieve a high level of resiliency, redundancy and availability. There are ancillary spaces and amenities which will benefit generally from the same level of resilience as the equipment room and the operations room.

An initial adjacency master plan was carried out to establish the fundamentals of the proposed program and developed with the architect using the brief from Airways.