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Completed Toi Tauranga Art Gallery following the 2025 redevelopment and seismic strengthening works
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Civic seismic strengthening · 2024–2025

Toi Tauranga Art Gallery

A complete seismic structural-steel package integrated through an existing civic building, together with new structural steel for the gallery's café extension.

LocationTauranga CBDMorgan’s clientLT McGuinnessAsset ownerTauranga City CouncilDeliveryFabrication · Supply · Installation
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Project scope

Responsibility carried through the steel package.

Morgan Steel was engaged in 2024 for site measurement and preconstruction work, then fabricated, supplied and installed the strengthening steel onsite in 2025. The package extended from the base connections through the upper structure and included the new café framing.

Site measurement and verificationComplete seismic structural-steel packageFull-height strengthening framesInternal beam and column strengtheningBaseplates and structural connectionsNew café extension steelFabrication and supplyOnsite installation
Completed new entrance to Toi Tauranga Art Gallery
The completed gallery entrance after the strengthening and redevelopment works.
Morgan Steel framing installed for the new cafe at Toi Tauranga Art Gallery
The café extension steel integrated against the existing gallery structure.
Full-height columns, beams and connections in the Toi Tauranga Art Gallery cafe extension
Full-height café framing and connection steel during installation.
Seismic strengthening beams installed inside Toi Tauranga Art Gallery
Internal strengthening steel exposed during the building work before the gallery finishes were reinstated.
A concealed seismic column baseplate connection inside Toi Tauranga Art Gallery
A strengthening-column baseplate fitted into the existing floor structure.
Completed exhibition space inside Toi Tauranga Art Gallery
The completed exhibition space—the substantial strengthening work now concealed within the finished gallery.
Toi Tauranga Art Gallery entrance and illuminated signage
The renewed Toi Tauranga Art Gallery entrance at dusk.

Existing-building discipline

Measured against the building—not assumptions.

Morgan Steel's involvement began with site measurement and verification in 2024. That early work established the real interfaces before fabrication, helping the strengthening steel and new café structure fit the building uncovered onsite.

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What this demonstrates

Complete seismic packageExisting-building coordinationTop-to-bottom strengtheningNew café structure

More existing-building work

Steel measured, fabricated and installed around the building already there.

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