It also has sleeping accommodation, first aid facilities and a cafeteria with a feeding capacity of 100 people.

[3] An Alternative National Crisis Management Centre was established in Auckland following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake.

It is intended to be activated if the facility in Wellington was damaged, in the event of a wide-spread emergency or if the national government has been forced to relocate to Auckland.

[4] The 2024 Report of the Government Inquiry into the Response to the North Island Severe Weather Events described the Auckland facility as "totally inadequate", and the Wellington one "not fit for purpose."

In 2024 deputy chief executive and director for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) John Price said that for an emergency of the scale of an Alpine Fault earthquake, there would need to be 350 people to manage the disaster, but the facility can only house 120 people.