Teenaa koutou and welcome to the Waikato Regional Theatre Construction Update.

As we’ve done at the end of the previous three years, this issue is being sent before Christmas in place of a January-Kohitaatea edition.

The site team will be getting a well-deserved break following a big year. Work ends at the close of this Friday, 20 December, and then resumes on Monday, 6 January.

2025 will be The Year of the Theatre, we really are into the final stretch now. So thank you to all those who have come along on the construction journey, it’s been incredible seeing this wonderful building come up out of the ground.

 

Progress on site

Highlights from the last month include the following.

  • Installation of the last of the Auditorium roof precast panels.

  • Completion of the first grid wall of Hinuera stone and start on the southern side.

  • Pour of Stalls flat floor.

  • Progress on heritage façade restoration, including glazing.

  • Continuation of internal works such as installation of doors, insulation and services.

 

Significant events coming up

The following progress is expected to occur in the next month.

  • Complete installation of the Fly Tower structural steel.

  • Commence installation of the seating bleachers.

  • Continued installation of the Hinuera stone cladding.

  • Continued installation of services and internal structures.

The Theatre site in January 2023, fifteen months after site work started...

December 2023...

And this week, December 2024...

Overall Programme

The WRT’s construction programme has been updated as follows.

Site Set Up                                     Completed

Demo                                              Completed

Earthworks                                     Completed

Foundations                                   Completed

Structure                                        Commenced - Due for Completion early 2025

Envelope                                        Commenced - Due for Completion mid 2025

Construction Completion              Due for Completion 2025

Fit out and Commissioning           Due for Completion 2025.

 

Communications

Foster Construction team email for any queries relating to this project - queries.wrt@fosters.co.nz.

 

About this Update…

These Waikato Regional Theatre Construction Updates are produced by Graeme Ward and Georgia Osman from RDT Pacific, the Theatre’s Overall Project Manager, assisted by Mark Servian from Momentum Waikato, their Communications and Marketing Manager.

These newsletter issues are posted at the website waikatoregionaltheatre.co.nz – the dedicated web address for construction news and contacts, separate from Momentum Waikato’s theatre community and fundraising site sharethestage.co.nz.