Auckland University - Student Amenities
New Zealand's largest university, The University of Auckland, has over 40,000 students and is recognised as a leading international learning centre. With more than 5,500 international students from 85 different countries the university needed to extend to accommodate these ever rising numbers.

The resulting new Student Amenities Block, on Auckland’s Symonds Street, is a multi-storey complex containing shops, banks, offices and cafes as well as extensive student computer suites.

This entire infrastructure requires an equally complex electrical and data system. Caldwell & Levesque’s electrical division, in conjunction with its data cabling division, Data-Tech provided these systems.

With an electrical contract value of $1.7 million the Student Amenities Block contains several kilometers of electrical and data cabling, which was installed over a period of fourteen months. The electrical cabling originates at a specially installed on-site high voltage (HV) transformer via a 1600 amp main switchboard to over 30 local distribution boards servicing the separate areas within the complex.

The project included all interior and exterior power and lighting, which ensures that it stands out as an educational icon at night time.