55 Shortland Street — Acreline Electrical

An occupied CBD tower with a switchboard and distribution that predated most of its tenants. The work was bringing the base build up to current standard without asking a single floor to stop trading.

That is a sequencing job more than an electrical one: temporary supplies, night changeovers, and a board that has to be live again by the time the lifts start running.

What we did

Main switchboard upgrade, staged
Sub-mains and riser distribution
Temporary supplies during changeover
Emergency lighting to AS/NZS 2293
As-builts and certification

The original main switchboard, crowded and unlabelled — BeforeOriginal board

The replacement board, cabling combed into parallel runs — AfterUpgraded distribution

A row of new circuit breakers, toggles aligned

New board, breakers set out on the comb busbar

Recessed emergency-lighting head with its status indicator lit

Emergency lighting head, in and tested

Power cables strapped to cable ladder in the services riser

Riser distribution, re-run to cable ladder

Client: To confirm
Location: 55 Shortland Street, Auckland
Year: To confirm
On site: To confirm
Scope: Base build electrical upgrade

Facts marked to confirm, and every photograph on this page, are indicative placeholders — project details to be confirmed

Heartland Bank