Tertiary training kitchen features hygienic ceiling tiles

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Southern Institute of Technology

A new kitchen in Queenstown provides students and tutors with the perfect training environment.

Bates Surfaces
Auckland
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The Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) has five campuses around New Zealand and recently completed a full refurbishment of its hospitality school training kitchen and classrooms in Queenstown. In a tight construction schedule, work began after the final teaching week of the year and had to be completed and commissioned ready for the following academic year.

Designed by Bill Mackintosh of Beattie McDowell Architecture, the training kitchen caters for 18 students and is fitted with all the latest gear. The equipment list includes nine Waldorf electric ranges, a six-tray Turbofan demonstration oven, and a 12-tray Turbofan oven for teaching a range of speciality bread and pastry recipes, along with other specialised appliances.

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The Queenstown layout is similar to SIT’s Invercargill training kitchen, which works well for students and tutors, offering good sightlines for demonstrations and a safe operating environment for trainee chefs. Kitchen finishes meet B2 Durability and G3 Food Preparation requirements of the New Zealand Building Code for commercial kitchens.

HardieGlaze Premium and Invibe by James Hardie line the walls, and ceilings are the Fenta™ Ceiling Tile by Bates Surfaces in a suspended ceiling grid. The high-gloss, light-reflective surfaces of both the white Fenta tile and HardieGlaze panels means light is bounced around the room for maximum energy efficiency, providing excellent lighting conditions for the precise work required for food preparation and presentation.

Made in New Zealand for over 35 years, Fenta Ceiling Tiles are specially designed for the humid conditions and cooking residue of commercial kitchens. They feature a 100% UV-cured painted surface on a 4.5mm James Hardie cement board. The antibacterial, scratch-resistant and non-porous surface makes them a benchmark product for these environments.

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Bates Surfaces has been a leader in surface-coating building products since 1953, utilising the best UV-coatings technology in the world.

As New Zealand’s largest applicator of UV coatings, we have been a trusted supply partner to the local industry for over 25 years.

We transform products, such as raw fibre cement panels, into pre-finished, factory-coated products – working with manufacturers as they make them part of their product catalogue.

In addition to fulfilling OSM orders for customers such as James Hardie and Laminex, we market our own brands – PureCoat™ kitchen and bathroom panels, PlyPlay™ pre-finished plywood wall and ceiling panels, and hygienic Fenta™ Ceiling Tiles.

At ArchiPro we recognise and acknowledge the existing, original and ancient connection Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have to the lands and waterways across the Australian continent. We pay our respects to the elders past and present. We commit to working together to build a prosperous and inclusive Australia.