Ram Registry Will Have 50,000 sq. ft

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32344, 9 July 1970, Page 18

Ram Registry Will Have 50,000 sq. ft

The University of Canterbury has accepted a “cost constraint” offer by the University Grants Committee for the construction of a 50,000 sq. ft Registry building at Ham.

The Vice-Chancellor (Professor N. C. Phillips) said yesterday that it was hoped to complete the sketch plans for the building this year, to let a contract early in 1972 and to occupy the building in 1974.

This would coincide with the planned transfer of the faculties of arts, commerce and law from the city site to new accommodation at Ham. Professor Phillips said that under the cost constraint system the university was offered a sum of money to plan, build, equip and furnish the building. It had maximum freedom within that constraint to go ahead. This scheme had been a success with the providing of the School of Forestry, opened earlier this year. The new registry, which will be sited to the west of

the James Hight Library, now under construction at Ham, will be at the centre of pedestrian traffic in the university. It will have ready access from University Drive, the road running through the site between Clyde and Ham Roads. Planned to accommodate the administrative staff required when the university’s roll reaches 10,000, the new building will have offices for the vice-chancellor and registrar and their staffs, a council room and room for sections dealing with finance, records, data processing, liaison and student accommodation, buildings maintenance, reserves and grounds, purchasing, information, printing and mail. The architects for the building are Messrs Hall and Mackenzie.