Quick move as building project starts at DNI

Dunedin North Intermediate office administrators Anne McLean (left) and Helen Shaw have started moving office materials to their new temporary home in the school library. Photo: Linda Robertson
Dunedin North Intermediate office administrators Anne McLean (left) and Helen Shaw have started moving office materials to their new temporary home in the school library. Photo: Linda Robertson
Files, computers, desks, chairs, the trusty coffee cup and the obligatory family photograph - all of it is being moved out of the Dunedin North Intermediate school office this week.

Administration staff are carrying the items to a temporary home in the school library, as construction workers prepare to demolish the school's administration block next week.

A replacement $1.2million administration wing will be built facing North Rd, and the school hall turned into a two-way space with a performing arts area at the front end of the building and a smaller hall for school assemblies at the other end, principal Heidi Hayward said.

The facility will also be able to be turned into one space for large events.

While the construction project was taking place, the school's library would be halved in size and temporary offices would be set up, she said.

''This week is the changeover. Everything will move out of here and into there.

''Next week, hand demolition will begin, and then by the end of next week, large demolition machinery will move in.''

It was hoped construction would begin soon after.

Miss Hayward said the project was supposed to begin last December, but it had been plagued by delays.

It was a huge relief to see it finally happening, she said.

''We've been waiting for such a long time, and then we get the call to say 'right, we're ready to go', and now we're scrambling around trying to move everything out.''

Construction was expected to take about a year.

john.lewis@odt.co.nz


 

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