Located at Tauranga Hospital, the Pathlab development provides the wider community with a highly specialised healthcare facility. Our structural, geotechnical, fire, and civil engineering consultants worked as one integrated team to deliver a complex laboratory facility, under tight timeframes with high technical precision.

Rapid delivery through BIM, multidisciplinary service and strong council relationships

Kirk Roberts’ long-standing relationship with the local council enabled fast-tracked staged consents, allowing construction to progress while design work continued. Our multidisciplinary engineering team worked as one unit, coordinating structural, geotechnical, fire, and civil design in parallel. This integration reduced delays, improved communication, and ensured rapid decision-making across all disciplines. The use of BIM modelling further accelerated delivery by enabling fast steel shop drawings and reducing onsite clashes. This was a major advantage in a complex laboratory environment with significant mechanical servicing requirements.

This combined capability, strengthened by close collaboration with external contractors, ensured the project met strict health-sector programme pressures.