Commercial Building - Colspec Construction
Hotel transformation a rewarding project Sue Russell Palmerston North Construction company Colspec Construction Ltd has just completed a major hotel project right in the centre of Palmerston North; a project they are very proud to have been associated with. Stuart Lind, Colspec’s site manager for the transformation of the former Kingsgate Hotel into a Copthorne Hotel, says the massive undertaking was full of challenges, but professionally very rewarding for him and the crew on board. “It was the total refurbishment of a tower block containing 73 rooms over five levels. “Nothing of the old hotel has been kept and there were plenty of structural and building improvements to be made in the process,” Lind says. Ground-floor work involved upgrading the restaurant and bar, kitchen and staff amenities areas along with self-contained family units. Colspec Construction is not new to building accommodation blocks, having built units at Massey University, inner city student accommodation, as well as working at boarding schools but the Copthorne project presented with some new construction challenges to overcome. The project began in November 2013 and took five months to complete with all the bedrooms in the tower block totally stripped. During the rebuild process all fire protection services were bought up to the current codes while all other services were either replaced or upgraded. Colspec general manager Steve Hirst describes the Copthorne Hotel project as
The Copthorne Hotel Palmerston North is situated in the heart of the city.
“logistically challenging” with the hotel remaining opened throughout the build. “There were milestones we had to reach so the company could be assured the work was progressing according to plan,” says Hirst. “Once the rooms were decorated and
complete, they were immediately made available for bookings and letting. It required a high level of communication throughout,” he says. Situated in the heart of the city overlooking the square, Copthorne Hotel Palmerston North has 76 guest rooms,
a gymnasium, conference and banquet facilities. The 73 rooms in the tower give a birdseye views across the city-scape. Each room is equipped with broadband, own direct dial phone, Sky TV and tea and coffee-making facilities.
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