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EPL Building Christchurch

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 03/10/2016 - 1:18pm

As a company that makes cutting edge products, EPL wanted a Christchurch head office and manufacturing facility that embodied its drive for innovation.

Elastomer Products Limited (EPL) was founded in Christchurch in 1974 and its extruded rubber and polymer products are...

Taupo holiday home

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Mon, 03/10/2016 - 11:56am

For a young Kiwi/Belgian family living in Hong Kong, having a holiday home on Lake Taupo provides an antidote to apartment living in the fast-paced financial hub.

When Dan Kirton and Sylvie Doclot approached Fraser Cameron Architects, they wanted to build a holiday home on a site at...

Metrotile Shingle Reroof Whangarei house

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 5:00pm

 

When a winter storm with 150km/h winds hit a Whangarei home, sections of its asphalt shingle roof were blown off.
With only the plywood substrate left to protect the two-storey home, water began making its way through the joins in the plywood and into the home, damaging wall...

Designing smart with profiled metal roofing.

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 5:21pm

 

It is easy when designing a building to leave the roof cladding until last; however, consideration should be made at the outset of design of the Kℓ pressure coefficient factors, which apply to roof cladding and the purlins at the periphery of all buildings.
Some engineers are now...

Stonewood Homes wins regional Supreme award 2014

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 5:29pm


Stonewood Homes picked up two prizes: the New Homes $350,000-$450,000 category in Manawatu-Wanganui and then went on to take out the region’s Registered Master Builders Supreme Award for the 2014 House of the Year. As a new home consultant for Stonewood Homes in Palmerston North, Kaye...

Simply spectacular

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 4:51pm

 

When Mary and John Washer were designing their home on the Taranaki coastline, they wanted to do justice to the site and the sea views.

They also wanted something befitting the work they had put into their development of Tapuae Country Estate, where their home is on one of 30...

Pumphouse Theatre Restoration

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 4:42pm

In a history that spans almost 110 years, the building that we now know as the PumpHouse Theatre has had its ups and downs.
Sitting on the shore of Takapuna’s Lake Pupuke, it began life in 1906 as a water pumping station, a more sophisticated version of the original pumping station that was...

One of a team

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 3:46pm


Jonathan Walker architect – ‘Purpose-built yet elegant’ is how Jonathan Walker describes IBM’s Highbrook facility. Purpose-built and elegant’ better describes the many JWA-designed buildings in Auckland.

While the team at this well-established architectural practice have undertaken...

East Coast Bays Leisure Centre

Submitted by Bruce Duncan on Fri, 13/05/2016 - 3:16pm

 

When you have an asbestos roof over a community gym and kindy with a playground outside, it’s best not to take risks with it.

That was the view of Auckland Council when it became apparent that lichen could be degrading the asbestos roof on the East Coast Bays Leisure Centre in...

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