Built for you - whether you're a student, teacher, researcher or part of the community, the Innovation Complex has something for everyone. Spread across three floors, the 10,800 m2 complex includes creative, innovative and practical spaces to enhance the experience for those who work, study and visit our Auckland campus.
The Innovation Complex will provide the Ōtehā Tāmaki-Makaurau Auckland campus with learning, working and research space for staff, PhD students and associated labs in the following areas:
- School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition
- School of Food Technology and Natural Sciences
- Speech and Language Therapy
- New Zealand Institute of Advanced Studies (NZIAS)
Innovation
The design and layout of the building encourages collaborative learning through its use of open common spaces, furniture and ample space to recharge, discuss and co-create.
Lecturers and academics are co-located alongside postgraduate students and schools.
Disciplines are blended to create opportunities to join forces.
Sustainability
The Complex is a uniquely New Zealand response to sustainability, constructed to ensure efficiency and functionality.
Featuring high levels of thermal insulation, renewable heating and cooling systems, solar panels to generate electricity and occupancy sensors that turn lights off when rooms are not occupied.
Study in the Innovation Complex
Qualifications such as the Bachelor of Food Technology (Honours), Bachelor of Health Science, Bachelor of Science and the Bachelor of Nursing will have courses taught in the Innovation Complex, alongside other disciplines such as Information Sciences, Dietetics, Nutrition, Exercise, Speech Language Therapy, Engineering and Construction.
The building has laboratories specifically designed to support both undergraduate student learning and postgraduate research. Many of the labs can be used and adapted to suit teaching over several disciplines and subjects.
Innovation Complex facilities
A space for modern learning with state-of-the-art facilities
General
- Staff workspace
- Four general teaching rooms
- Six meeting rooms
- A café on level one that will serve hot and cold drinks, along with ready-to-eat food
- Informal spaces on each level for relaxing, studying or meetings
- General teaching labs
- Wet lab 1
- Wet lab 2
Natural sciences labs
Specialist science laboratories within Natural Sciences include:
- Organic/inorganic chemistry lab
- Shared analytical chemistry lab
- Physical Containment 1 (PC1) open lab
- Physical Containment 2 (PC2) open lab
- Generic PC1 lab
- Atom spectrophotometry lab
- Chemical data analysis lab
- Microbiology labs
Food and advanced technology labs
Specialist labs for Food and Advanced Technology programmes provide the space and equipment for:
- food process engineering
- food formulation
- food research
- food microbiology
- sensory analysis
- food characterisation
- food chemistry
- food processing.
Sport, exercise and nutrition labs
Primarily research labs, the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition now includes:
- Sport and exercise lab
- Environmental chamber for exercise science research
- Human Nutrition Research labs
- Wet lab
- Sensory neutral booth for cognitive testing
Health science labs
Lab spaces have been developed together with researchers and lecturer to ensure fit-for-purpose space.
- Lab spaces for human physiology and human bioscience, containing the latest AV technology.
- Labs to teach dissection, physiology data collection, chemistry and biology.
Shared clinics
Nutrition and Dietetics Clinic
- 360-degree video cameras at adult and children heights, allowing students to view and learn from consultations undertaken by experts.
Making science visible
The extensive use of glass throughout the building means you can now look into labs and tech spaces to see what’s going on, without disturbing those inside.
Historically, science has been a mystical thing that’s hidden away, but in the Innovation Complex, it is celebrated and showcased.
Research in the Innovation Complex
The Innovation Complex is home to specialist research-based industries, with two high-value start-up companies already based within the building. Additionally, the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study (NZIAS), one of the worlds leading centres in fundamental research will be located within the building. NZIAS encourages and supports academic scholarship at the highest level – the original, often speculative, critical thinking that produces major advances in knowledge, characterised by interdisciplinary clusters of elite scholars. This will be enhanced by its co-location with other science researchers at Massey.
Food Technology research laboratories will allow our world-class academic staff to undertake externally funded research.
The Innovation Complex will also support health research topics including metabolic health, bio-actives, muscle physiology, cancer research, performance nutrition, diabetes and exercise, elite sport and human health.
Collaboration
The Innovation Complex will provide a place of focus and connectivity, bringing together tauira, staff, stakeholders, industry and community onto our campus. The layout and spaces allow undergraduate degree students, postgraduate degree students, and world-class academic staff interact, incubate ideas and innovate at the cutting edge of their fields.
Building and design features
The building's open layout and accessibility enables cross-field collaboration and networking between researchers and lecturers.
The Innovation Complex is technologically enhanced to facilitate the co-creation of content and encourage interactive work. Staff and students are now able to visualise their work and collaborate on shared screens using audiovisual technology.
Laboratories have been developed together with researchers and lecturers to ensure spaces are fit-for-purpose. Science labs will support both undergraduate student learning and postgraduate research. Many of the labs can be used and adapted to suit several disciplines and core science courses which will provide a transformative and relevant learning experience, and prepare postgraduate students for success in their chosen fields.
The objective was to build a technology-leading building that incorporates a strong, sustainable design for the future. With this underlying goal, the design team worked to produce efficient and functional systems for this building.
More information about the Schools and Centres within the Innovation Complex
School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition
Examine human health, performance and physical development at all ages and stages of people's lives.
School of Health Sciences
Reducing health inequalities, and improving heath and wellbeing for people, communities and workplaces.
School of Food Technology and Natural Sciences
New ideas in food science and food technology, alongside the fundamental sciences of chemistry and biology.
Speech-language Therapy Clinic
Professional speech-language therapy for all ages, including online and in-person sessions.
Nutrition & Dietetic Centre, Auckland
We offer personalised nutritional advice and assessments and nutrition education talks.
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