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Largest Info Management Facility In South Island Opens
Largest Information Management Facility In South
Island Opens
State of the art security met old-time
Christchurch this week when document management company
Recall New Zealand began its move into a new
multi-million-dollar purpose-built facility.
The new
facility is on a 2.4 hectare site in Dakota Park, a freight
and logistics precinct developed by Christchurch
International Airport Limited (CIAL).
Recall is an
international business records storage and archives company
and its new facility has been under construction for the
past year.
General Manager Marcos Mota says it¹s
very exciting to see it completed and hundreds of thousands
of cartons moving in.
³Recall New Zealand is
investing in Christchurch and this new facility should be
seen as a sign of our confidence in the city as it recovers
and rebuilds², Mr Mota says.
³We have taken great
care to evaluate and utilise all the best practices and
technology from around the world. The new construction and
racking system fully comply with the new Seismic Design
Factor now applicable to the Christchurch area.²
Security is tight. Every part of the facility is covered by
CCTV, vascular scanning (scanning the veins in the hand of
the person seeking entry) controls access to parts of the
facility and other measures are not publicly
discussed.
In addition to being the largest facility
of its type in the South Island, it contains the largest
commercial archive vault in the country, designed to provide
secure storage for items of high intrinsic value and long
term preservation of historical and irreplaceable items.
This archive vault has a three-hour fire rating and is
equipped with state-of-the-art temperature and humidity
controls.
Set against this technology is elegant
décor, including large photographs of 1946 Christchurch. A
full wall black-and-white image of Cashel Street is a
poignant reminder of how the street once looked, compared to
its quake-damaged state now, but intended to pay homage to
Christchurch¹s history. Other walls carry images of
Cathedral Square and Lichfield Street as they were in
1946.
A Christchurch lawyer placed the first carton
of files on a rack in the new storage facility. All
clients¹ names went in a hat and Richard Lang, a partner at
Duncan Cotterill, drew the honour of placing a carton of his
firm¹s files on the new shelves. ³Duncan Cotterill has
been utilising Recall since 1995 and all our archive files
from Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland are sent to
Recall on a daily basis,² he says. ³We were very impressed
at the high standard of the archives vaults which meet and
exceed the NZ archiving standards.²
ENDS ¬
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