RDT Pacific provided Project Management and Engineer to the Contract services to the Arawa Project for the conversion of an existing, distinctive mirror glass, nine-storey commercial office building, constructed in 1987, into the 130 room 5-Star Pullman Hotel. The hotel is Rotorua’s first 5-Star hotel and features an executive lounge, five conference rooms, a 100-seat restaurant and gym.

In the heart of Rotorua, the Pullman Hotel commands exceptional 360-degree views of Lake Rotorua and the surrounding caldera and overlooks the historic Bath House and Tourism Centre.

RDT Pacific applied a rigorous and effective communications plan to the project, ensuring communication was consistently maintained and sufficient between the client, designers and contractors.

The project scope involved:

• Complete removal of the internal office fit out and services
• New hotel fit out to Pullman standards
• Modernisation of the existing lifts
• 100-seat restaurant
• Constrained inner city site located in central Rotorua with access limitations to the site and constraints on delivery of materials up the existing building
• Existing curtain wall façade maintained and refurbished acoustic and fire separation of hotel rooms within a building designed as an office building
• High proportion of client-supplied items, materials and separate contractors
• Extensive work with an interior designer based overseas.