Christchurch Hospital Acute Services Building
Project Overview
Christchurch Hospital Acute Services Building

Client: CPB Contractors Pty Ltd
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Project Value: $15.5M
Project Overview:
The Christchurch Hospital Acute Services Building is one of New Zealand’s largest and most significant healthcare infrastructure projects, delivering a modern acute care facility designed to support the region’s long-term healthcare needs.
Constructed within a live hospital campus, the project demanded careful planning, extensive stakeholder coordination and staged delivery to ensure hospital operations remained uninterrupted while critical fire protection infrastructure was installed, integrated and commissioned.
Endfire Engineering delivered a fully integrated Type 7 fire protection solution designed to protect patients, staff and critical healthcare services within a highly complex clinical environment. A key challenge involved integrating the new building with five existing fire alarm systems already operating across the hospital campus, requiring detailed interface management, staged commissioning and comprehensive system verification.
Endfire’s scope included the delivery and integration of:
- Automatic fire sprinkler systems
- Addressable fire detection and alarm systems
- Emergency warning and intercommunication systems
- Fire hydrants and hose reels
- Fire water infrastructure
- Redundant water supply arrangements
- MRI suite fire protection
- Specialist detection systems for critical plant and IT facilities
- Building services integration
- Commissioning, testing and certification
Working within an operational healthcare environment required strict infection control procedures, detailed programming and close collaboration with hospital representatives, consultants and construction partners to minimise disruption to essential clinical services.
The completed facility delivers a resilient, fully integrated fire protection solution that enhances life safety, protects critical medical infrastructure and supports the ongoing operation of one of New Zealand’s premier healthcare facilities.
What our clients say
Joel Albertson
The experience was fantastic. We experienced challenges with our requirements, documentation, and interface with the NTFRS. Endfire provided the services required to deliver a quality product that met the challenges and met the NTFRS and appropriate national and international standards. The customer experience with Endfire is world class. Mat and his team delivered an end result which worked and overcame substantial challenges. Endfire always succeeds. Great team.
Dan
Good communication under difficult circumstances. Knowledgeable staff that understand compliance and the code requirements. Performance under fire and urgency as well. Good to work with good people of difficult projects. When everyone aligns with the same purpose it’s very satisfying to deliver projects with a good group of contractors. Endfire were standouts with their professional conduct and expertise and get sh-t done attitude. Would consider them friends after the job was handed over which is rare in business.
Ryan Eck
Working with Tom and his team has been a great experience. Their professionalism, technical expertise, and proactive approach have made a significant contribution to the success of the hospital project thus far. The team consistently demonstrates strong communication, keeping all stakeholders informed while responding quickly and effectively to any challenges that arise. Their collaborative mindset and willingness to find practical solutions ensure that progress is maintained without compromising quality or compliance. In a complex live hospital environment, they have delivered their services safely, efficiently, and with minimal disruption — a testament to both their planning and execution capabilities. I would confidently recommend Endfire to any organization seeking a dependable, knowledgeable, and high-performing fire services contractor.
Endfire is a true project partner who consistently offers a proactive approach to their works, program and project design. EndFire’s solution-oriented project team bring experience and expertise that mitigate potential challenges inherent in complex industrial projects. EndFire exemplifies the core characteristics that all Principle Contractors require of their subcontractors to be successful.
Greg Gilboy
I had a very good session on site this morning with Endfire’s sprinkler fitters during my inspection, I can report they are very invested in the site and are thinking about the task at hand.I am extremely confident that they are delivering a great outcome for our client.
Kip Hayes
Endfire continually meet or exceed our expectations whether that be in relation to on site productivity or design advice (despite their subcontract being construct only). They are proactive and highly responsive. Combined with the cooperative nature of their site team and their high quality workmanship they are effectively "set and forget" which is very rare in today's industry.
Steve Barnes
We have been involved in Projects that Endfire have been engaged to deliver the Fire Services, both wet and dry, consistently since 2007. These projects are typically of a complex nature with high levels of integration. Endfire are competitive whilst still providing a high level of quality and management.
Chris Fairclough
Hutchinson Builders Cairns regularly Engage with Endfire on projects that require complex wet and dry fire solutions in difficult environments. Endfire consistently provide a high level of service in both the design and delivery of all projects. We look forward to working with Endfire on future projects and highly recommend them for all facets of Fire Services.
Cameron Bowes
The Endfire team has now assisted our company with three design and construct wet and dry fire solutions across the NT in CBD and remote locations. Each project has Endfire provide a professional approach from scoping and design through to the project management of delivery and certification. DCCM will be partnering with Endfire on future opportunities and can highly recommend them to others.
Andréas Kyriakides
Endfire continue to go above and beyond, offering tailored fire engineering solutions to complex Projects whilst always delivering a quality install to meet their client's needs. Their vast experience in fire safety and collaborative approach, ranging through both the design and construction phases, always ensures you're getting industry leading service when engaging Endfire Engineering