NZ Metal Roofing Manufacturers

By Graham Hepburn
Computer aided design is a wonderful tool when it comes to building your dream home.
That’s what Tony and Jackie Krzyzewski found when they began playing around with ideas for the home they wanted to build on a section they bought in Whitford about three...

By Graham Hepburn

Changes to the way people are using the postal service were part of the reason NZ Post undertook a review of its operations.
The advent of email, the rise in internet shopping and the growth of courier services have radically altered the landscape.
Coupled with...

By Graham Hepburn

When Northland Cricket relocated to a new home ground five years ago, it paid tribute to the game’s past with the design of its headquarters but had a firm eye on the future.

The move to a new ground was spurred by a review of the district plan by...

Paula and Ross Greenville operated a very successful boutique accommodation facility adjacent to the golf course in Mount Maunganui for a number of years. This luxury accommodation catered for overseas visitors who were particularly interested in golf.
In 2004 a change in lifestyle was in...

The residential building industry has seen some tough times over recent years with many home owners and suppliers being left in a dilemma. It is within this climate of uncertainty that Landmark Homes have  been able to build a reputation for stability, trust, value and excellence in the mid to...

Because many schools were built prior to the current building standards the New Zealand Ministry of Education, in 1998, undertook a nationwide structural survey of all school buildings throughout the country. The result of the survey identified high priority work which was to be completed by...

By Graham Hepburn

You only need to look about you for evidence of New Zealand’s long and unbroken love affair with metal roofing.
Alongside weather board villas from the early 1900s with their corrugated iron roofs you’ll often see modern townhouses with standing seam roofs...

By Graham Hepburn

Raymond Q’s Takapuna home is testament to how sustainable building is becoming more mainstream in
New Zealand.
And that change in mind-set has been helped in no small part by the home’s designer, Johann Bernhardt, who has recently released a comprehensive...

The brief to Hugh Tennent, architect and senior designer at Tennent and Brown Architects, posed some rather interesting and unusual parameters. The first was to provide accommodation for two brothers allowing private spaces for each and the second was the remote location with the most direct...

By Graham Hepburn.

When Nigel Lamb was commissioned to design a building for a salmon-based tourism venture in Rakaia, he struck upon the idea of a large steel fish.
Not only would it be an eye-catching feature of the Mid Canterbury town, but it also referenced a local...