Bupa Retirement Village

Bupa | Napier, Hawkes Bay

Bonisch has been involved with 30 aged care facilities nationwide from Invercargill to Kerikeri. For the Bupa Napier project, which was for the development of a retirement village comprising a care home and villas across a 5-hectare greenfields site, Bonisch was engaged as the lead consultant responsible for the investigation, detailed design, tendering and MSQA of civil components of the project.

The project included extensive earthworks and recontouring design of the site with approximately 60,000m³ of imported fill required to lift the site to achieve minimum finished floor levels, 3 waters design of 4km of main networks including extension of council networks to service the site, full road geometric and pavement design of 1.2km of internal roads and 350m of existing road widening along with a full 3D model of the site.

As the lead consultant, Bonisch engaged specialist subcontractors to complete full geotechnical assessment and foundation design as well as streetlight and power reticulation as part of our scope. This project is currently under construction.

Bonisch’ delivered this large-scale project within an extremely tight timeframe, with a project commencement to tender timeframe of only 3.5 months. One of the challenges faced on this project included the design of a stormwater system that allowed for an existing open channel drainage system which creates backwater effects on the stormwater pipe system significantly constraining the capacity of the internal drainage network. Bonisch overcame this challenge and implemented a high level of stormwater quality treatment in the design by utilising Stormwater 360 storm filters.

Images courtesy of Atkin Construction.