Grace Building: Setting a New Standard for Premium Industrial Storage in Wellington

On the outside of Grace’s building, you will notice a woven pattern on the solar screens, inspired by the kete, a woven flax basket used to gather, carry, and store items. Kete whakairo, woven with fine patterns, were often used to carry or store valued and precious items. Like kete whakairo, Te Whare Tāmau is made to hold what’s precious.

Grace’s new building has been purpose-built to be a state-of-the-art secure facility for your valuable and irreplaceable items and is built to the Importance Level Three (IL3) standard of seismic resilience. Items are also protected by keeping both temperature and humidity stable, as the entire facility is a climate and humidity-controlled vault.

Risk of fire is managed by using a very early smoke detection system (VESDA) along with a dry-pipe double-knock sprinkler system. This two-step sprinkler system keeps pressurised air in the pipes rather than water, so if there is a false alarm or a pipe breaks, no water damage will occur. Water is released only when both systems confirm there is a fire.

You can be sure your most treasured items are carefully protected when you store them with Grace.

And that’s not all. Grace will keep your special collections and priceless items safe while moving them into the new building, using air-locked loading bays. Moving from the truck into storage, your items will be fully protected from Wellington’s famous winds or any rainy weather. Air-locked loading bays ensures your items are never unloaded out in the open, keeping them secure and the storage environment stable at all times.