EIT’s Trades and TechnologyTraining Centre designed by Paris Magdalinos Architects.

EIT’s Trades and Technology Training Centre has won an award for its Hawke’s Bay designer, Paris Magdalinos Architects.  The building received a Public Architecture and Sustainable Architecture award in the 2011 New Zealand Architects’ Gisborne/Hawkes Bay branch awards.

EIT chief executive Chris Collins said the brief was for leading edge technology in building design to complement advanced teaching methods for trades project-based learning. Design features of the $8.5m trades centre include mechanical extraction systems to maintain air quality in the workshop area, efficient energy use, water conservation, use of natural lighting and renewable building products.

The success of the project is attributed to the partnership between PMA, Gemco Construction Ltd and EIT’s project manager Dick Hilton.