The Alan MacDiarmid Building was the winner of the 2010 Concrete³ Sustainability Award for Excellence in Concrete Innovation. The award was announced in Wellington at the CCANZ Conference Dinner held Thursday 7th October.

Mainzeal built Victoria University's Alan MacDiarmid Building which was finished earlier this year. The building was opened by Prime Minister John Key, 21^st July 2010. It comprises four suspended floors of science teaching and research space (with an associated heavy services demand) over a flexible entry floor teaching/conference area. This upper structure straddles an existing service tunnel with a basement each side, and fits between the existing surrounding buildings.

The Alan MacDiarmid Building is the first multi-storey PRESSS building in NZ. The result of ponsitive collaboration between engineers, academia and contractors it implements a new technology in seismic and component-based concrete construction.

PRecast Seismic Structural Snystems utilise un-bonded post tensioning and rocking joints within the structure to ensure the building returns to upright without significant structural damage, even after a major seismic event.