Food Nutrition lab under construction

Construction has begun on another stage of the ongoing redevelopment of the AgHort complex at the Manawatü campus. This stage is the renovation of the Animal Food Nutrition Laboratory from the Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health.

Currently housed within several small interconnecting rooms, the laboratory is being relocated into a new open-plan space on level two of AgHort A.

The first-floor glasshouse will be demolished and replaced with a coloured glazed facade. The laboratory will incorporate a flexible open-plan analytical and testing lab space around the outside walls, with central rooms for specific uses such as wash-up, balances, storage, dark and noisy processing rooms.

Work is progressing well on site, with Mainzeal employed as the main contractors.
Completion is due early next year.