Waitakere Architects & Project Managers

Time seems to go faster as we get older!!!
Ritchies $18m depot in Swanson turned 3 this year.

Waitakere Architects were the Principal Consultants for this project to relocate Richies Bus Services and storage of their transport services in West Auckland, It opened in April 2014 The Client was Ritchies Transport Holdings depot.
The $18 million complex in Swanson was officially opened by Prime Minister John Key.
Ritchies came to West Auckland in 1980 with a fleet of 10 buses.
There are now 132 buses parked on the new 2.5ha site and more than 300 staff are employed in the west alone.
The company provides school bus services, tour coaches and urban bus services.
Managing director Andrew Ritchie said it was a big financial commitment but been very successful.

"Ritchies is family owned and has been transporting Kiwis as a company for over 80 years and is putting our confidence in the future of public transport in Auckland," he says.
"It's good facilities for the staff and that should follow through to the travelling public."
The new depot features a memorial to the late John Ritchie, founder of the transport company, who died on July 14, 2010.

Great to remember this milestone project and to hear that its working well, Thanks for having Waitakere Architects involved.