Builders and Contractors Magazine, Summer 2016

ISSUE 4 - 2015 Summer Edition

INSIDE Affordable Concrete & Paving

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APD Stormwater & Rain Harvesting Systems

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Arrow International

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Canterbury Frames & Trusses

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Precast Concrete NZ active for members

Canterbury Heavy Haulage 51 Chapman Engineering

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Crombie Lockwood

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CSP Pacific

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Directory

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Faulks

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FM Group

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HealthSafe

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Health & Safety Reform Bill 44 IMB Construction

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Laser Group

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MJH Engineering

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NZ Wood Products

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Precast NZ Inc

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P&W Painters

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Reliable Foundations

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Signage / Construction Managment Software

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Site Safety

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Site Security

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Solarbright

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Spiral Drillers

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Steel Construction NZ (SCNZ)

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Sustainability

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Temperzone

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Thirty Year NZ Infrastructure Plan 2015 66 Timber Frames & Trusses

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Traffic Safety

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Understanding GST

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Urban Homes

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With concrete, precast in particular, playing a huge and ongoing part in construction in New Zealand, the national body representing manufacturers and companies using the product, Precast New Zealand (PCNZ) is perfectly placed to further the needs of members, representing them in the physical, legal and legislative walls which confront the industry.

Right now, the whole of industry is challenged by the purely physical conditions under which it must operate, with the additional complexity of the post-Christchurch earthquake era interceding in activity, means the awareness of a greater need for earthquake-proofed structures and the concomitant costs of its application are making life more difficult for the whole society.

Earthquake effects Not only has Christchurch had to come to terms with the effects of earthquakes, but the whole country has had to take cognisance of the likelihood of flurries of tremors throughout the land, needing to plan constructing, or the upgrading buildings accordingly.

PCNZ, which was established in 1999, represents 80 per cent

of the off-site precast concrete production. Precast concrete elements are employed in the residential, commercial and industrial and infrastructural markets. At its recent annual conference, among the many issues discussed relating to precast concrete, a major one was promotion of their Certified Plant scheme.

PCNZ’s executive director, Rod Fulford draws the comparison with the ready mix concrete industry, in which concrete is purchased from certified plants, asserting that this should also apply to the precast medium. In this programme, all concerned would be assured that products purchased from a Precast NZ

Certified Plant would be from an established operator, with appropriate manufacturing facilities, quality assurance programmes and appropriate levels of experience and expertise.

It would be a case of ‘there are concrete precasters and then there are Precast NZ Certified Precasters’. continued page 8

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Temperzone

Leading the way in energy ef cient air conditioning Temperzone is a wholly New Zealand owned and operated manufacturing company that will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2016. Its plant in Auckland employs nearly 400 staff and manufactures air conditioning equipment from the 5kW split system units suitable for homes through to 200kW packaged units that you see on shopping centres and many of the large retail shops. Temperzone also has a second plant in Sydney and the Australasian distribution agency for Hitachi Inverter Heat Pumps that are popular in homes and commercial premises.

Temperzone is heavily in to R & D which in this day and age is necessary to meet regulations such as MEPS and also to develop new products and new features for existing products. An example of this would be the company's new 30 kW 'Inverter' Packaged Rooftop Unit and its development of Hot Water Heat Pump units for commercial applications.

Because Temperzone cares, it has run an Approved Installer scheme since 1977, to ensure that equipment is installed by competent, reliable and experienced contractors. Only those who are 'approved' receive extended warranties where applicable to give peace of mind to the end user.

Over the years Temperzone has demonstrated its willingness to customise standard products or build new products to suit speci c applications. Consequently, it is able to directly respond to the broad requirements of any major air conditioning project, providing the most appropriate systems required.

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HealthSafe Protecting your People

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Will your company comply to the new legislation come April 4th 2016?

HealthSafe is a company founded by Kevin McAfee, an Irishman from Belfast who has been resident in New Zealand for 9 years. Kevin has over two decades of experience in health & safety and building facilities management, both in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. In his time in New Zealand Kevin has found through dealing with clients, an increasing demand for health & safety advice and guidance and further stimulated by the about by the introduction of the health and safety at work act 2015.

With a proven history of problem solving, Kevin saw an opportunity to do something different and in his words, “exciting�. This new approach would be to provide business with a one stop health & safety shop where the latest technology would do much of the work for them. The bene ts would be realised not only through reducing their business risk, but more importantly, helping them to keep their people safe by an innovative and simple process to grow and cement a culture of health and safety. Furthermore, employees who have responsibility for the administration of health & safety within a business would be freed up for activities that were focused toward revenue growth. This signi es a move away from the old approach of providing businesses with stock standard health & safety forms only for management to spend a signi cant amount of their business time ticking boxes.

HealthSafe is an online application which targets areas of health & safety management that have traditionally been challenging for health & safety managers to administer. These areas include management of contractors, employees working off site, employee training and reporting of information at month end.

Furthermore, senior management and key health & safety people are given a level of visibility over health & safety which has traditionally been lacking ensuring delivery of whats required consistently across multiple sites anywhere in new Zealand.

Dif culties around contractor management have often been centred around keeping track of contractor movements and getting them to cooperate in regard to health & safety procedures. The new Act is very clear that businesses must work together to ensure that health & safety standards are met. HealthSafe will assist your business to track contractor movements to and from your workplace premises and also to ensure that contractor health & safety practices and those of your business are aligned.

Duties of persons undertaking or conducting (PCBU). A PCBU is de ned as a business entity, such as a company, rather than an individual person. An individual person may be a PCBU, if they are self employed or a sole trader.

Duties of Of cers. An of cer is de ned as a company director, a partner of a business partnership, a person elected to a body corporate, or any person in a position that allows them to exercise signi cant in uence over the management of the business or undertaking, e.g. a CEO. Duties of workers. A worker is de ned as an individual who carries out work in any capacity for a PCBU including, but not limited to: employee, contractor or subcontractor, employee of a contractor or subcontractor, employee of a labour hire company, an outworker (including a homeworker), apprentice or a trainee, a person gaining work experience or undertaking a work trial; or a volunteer worker.

Penalties have increased under the new Act. For example, reckless conduct which exposes a person to a risk of death or serious injury or illness, can now range up to $300,000 and 5 years imprisonment for a worker, $600,000 and 5 years imprisonment for an of cer and $3,000,000 for a body corporate.

HealthSafe will assist you in meeting all legislation requirements. The HealthSafe application has been designed to provide a secure online health & safety tool to help New Zealand business deliver consistency and high standards as required by the new Health & Safety at Work Act 2015. It is is designed with ease of use and maximum ef ciency in mind.

Furthermore, HealthSafe is backed up by a team with over 30 years experience in health & safety, building facilities management and audit who are available for further support should your business require it.

So if you are seeking a peace of mind for your health and safety or you simply want to save on the time to collate the information needed, call us today and meet one of our National consultants.

Employees working offsite are also a challenge for any businesses. HealthSafe enables your business to manage health & safety remotely. The healthSafe online application works across a range of mobile devices to allow your offsite employees to draft their own accident/ incident, hazard or any other forms. Your health & safety administrator or manager can review, complete and authorise those forms back at base. HealthSafe also allows for uploading of any documents, photos or videos.

Any form of training, health & safety related or otherwise, can also be tracked on the HealthSafe application. Furthermore, personal protective equipment can also be monitored for new employees, with tracking of expiry dates, to ensure that all employees are equipped with the correct New Zealand standard safety equipment.

The HealthSafe reporting function is a powerful tool that will save your team time in collating, formatting and reporting monthly health & safety data. Health safe will also assist your business to identify trends and update processes accordingly.

Health and safety policies and detailed site assessments or audits are also a support offered and being used by many leading businesses throughout New Zealand.

Risks associated with health & safety have unfortunately come further into the limelight in New Zealand in recent years. The Pike River tragedy and a spate of forestry deaths in 2013, spurred the National government to make a raft of changes to health & safety legislation under what is now the Health & Safety at Work Act 2015. The Act of cially comes into effect on 4 April 2016.

Signi cant changes that the new Act has introduced includes: Small businesses with fewer than 20 workers in low-risk sectors are excluded from the requirement to have a health and safety representative when requested by workers. However, it must be noted that such small businesses are still required to comply with the Act, whether or not they choose to have a health and safety representative.

Duties are now well de ned within speci c categories to ensure clearer identi cation of the parties responsible for the health and safety of others in the workplace. These categories are:

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NZ Wood Products

I-Built and NZWOOD: a strong foundation Engineered Wood Products sales team.

After that he went on to head the Futurebuild International Market development based in Hong Kong.

New Zealand Wood Products is a company that was built from the ground up. So it makes sense that one of their most popular and impressive products should be a ooring solution like I-Built.

“There I worked as the export manager, developing outlets for the Middle East and Asia and I learned a lot. Finally though, I decided it was time to come home.”

A complete mid- oor or whole house ooring solution, I-Built is faster, easier and more cost-effective. Owner Bill Blackmore says it's designed to be a “paint by numbers” solution for engineered mid oors.

Getting it right from day one

Safety and reliability brands you can trust Another of their most successful lines is the JNL range, which includes J-Ply and J-Plank. Structural laminated scaffold planking, J-Plank is made in NZ from FSC-certi ed sustainably grown pine.

Laminated Veneer Lumber gives J-Plank predictable engineered strength and stiffness properties. Lightweight and easy to handle, J-Plank can carry a load up to 250 kg. JNL is also independently audited by the Engineered Wood Products Association of Australasia. J-Plank's durability and strength make it ideal for New Zealand working conditions."

“Each plank is individually proof tested for safety and performance. The bene t of planks made from LVL is each plank performs the same.”

From the start, Bill's focus was on employing passionate people with total focus on what he calls “getting the basics right."

Bill Blackmore

“It's about answering the phones, saying please and thank you, giving people options and solutions and xing our own problems, rather than blaming others.”

It was this focus that saw such impressive growth come from such small beginnings.

“We began by operating out of a playroom in my house. Then, we started working with our cornerstone supplier, JNL and introduced J-Ply to the local market. We just grew from there.

More than just wood – it's about the people

NZWOOD also has a variety of engineered timber including treated and untreated plywood, LVL, scaffold boards, and formwork beams. They're the New Zealand distributors of Nelson Pine, J-Ply, J-Plank, J-Form, Sveza Birch Ply, Hyne Timber and LP Solid Start Ibeams.

Bill says the secret to NZWOOD's success is maintaining relationships with staff and customers.

Bill prefers to buy local, which is harder these days under the strong New Zealand dollar. All NZWOOD products are sourced from sustainably managed forests, and their FSC or PEFC chain of custody certi cation means customers can follow the products from tree to door. All engineered products are independently certi ed so customers can feel assured they will perform.

Passion, fun and integrity is something he looks for in his team – and something he strives to maintain in the day-to-day running of the business.

Engineered wood from a company that cares

“Our customer relationships are key. We support our customers and give them the right answers.”

“It's about having staff who want to come to work and clients who want to do business with us.”

Over the years, Bill has made some great connections who have become loyal and steadfast friends. It's this camaraderie and loyalty combined with his client's entrepreneurial attitude that keeps him engaged.

If there's anyone who knows about engineered wood products, it's Bill Blackmore. After gaining a forestry degree, Bill landed a ministry position developing contacts and trade with Taiwan and otherAsian countries.

“Every day is a new challenge with new opportunities. We try to say 'yes' and provide options or alternatives that answer the client's issues. That's what I'm passionate about".

“It got me a taste for sales.” Says Bill with a smile, “and basically I've been in the industry my whole working life.”

For quality product from a company that cares, give NZWOOD a call today.

After distributing Radiata pine in the US, Bill was shoulder-tapped to run the CHH

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Signage / Construction Managment Software

Smudge Signs was established in 2008 and in the 7 years since its inception has grown quickly building a reputation for providing a comprehensive and quality service to its many well-known clients along the way. Smudge provides a point of difference from general signage companies in that there is signi cant equipment in house including welding, spray-painting, a large 4m x 2m CNC atbed router, electrical wiring, multiple printers, a rolls roller atbed applicator and an acrylic fabrication oven.

They also have the ability to provide a wide range of services not just limited to the making of the signs themselves. It is these extra services that are of particular relevance to construction companies, architects, project managers and those in the construction sector and pride themselves on making life easier and more straight forward when it comes to the signage elements of any project. Smudge can manage the entire process for signage including providing elevation drawings, technical drawings, engineering documentation, electrical compliance and the list goes on. If the project is a particularly dif cult one with new and creative ideas or challenging circumstances Smudge are adept at working alongside the key stakeholders to produce samples and working prototypes to ensure they are fully satis ed with what is proposed. If you would like to see examples of the types of drawings Smudge is able to produce and examples of the work they completed they welcome a phone call or email anytime at the details contained on the ad alongside.

Smudge's body of work is high quality and award winning with the company picking up multiple New Zealand Sign and Display Awards over the past few years with particular success coming in the corporate signage category which illustrates their ability to successfully interpret and implement plans and company brand speci cations and awards picked up in the past include for the likes of Auckland Council and New World.

All installs are done by in-house staff who all hold a minimum site safe building and construction passport with multiple staff holding further site safe quali cations such as construction management and rst aid construction safety. Over the past 7 years a signi cant proportion of the projects Smudge has completed have been construction site based projects and they have become something of specialists in this area. These have included builds of supermarkets, apartment blocks, commercial factories and of ce buildings with signage ranging from simple apartment door plaques, to pylons, fabricated lettering, illuminated signage, manifestation and more. Big or small, simple or complicated Smudge will tackle any challenge.

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Precast NZ Inc

Precast Concrete NZ active for members continued from page 1

Rush to capitalise A huge bearing on the attitude of members to their offering precast concrete is in Christchurch, where there has been a rush to capitalise on the needs in all industries, as well as precast concrete.

Mr Fulford says there has been an increase in precast concrete producers there – more than in the many times larger Auckland. The term cowboy is being widely applied, no less in the precast concrete industry, where they often supply product of questionable quality.

The layer of assurance added by having such a certification, would be enhanced by having an independent third party undertaking audits of q u a l i t y, i n v o l v i n g a more detailed inspection process. This would call for a significant investment in their manufacturing facilities, quality systems and workforce training, to obtain a quality product, making the lowest priced product not the primary consideration.

By selecting supply from a certified plant, builders would give more recognition to quality and performance of the precaster which would go a long way towards successful and trouble free completion of their project.

He says he has been called to Christchurch “a number of times to advise in disputes regarding precast quality.” That has been more often than for the rest of New Zealand.

Nauhria Precast Ltd When it comes to creativity in concrete coupled with excellence and capability, there's no looking past Auckland-based Nauhria Precast Ltd. Nauhria Precast is a secure and established family owned company. They provide a fullservice operation including in-house drafting of precast shop drawings, manufacturing, QA and delivery. provides an attractive array of unique concrete formulations, highly functional surface textures and the ability to exercise a bespoke freedom of designer decorative detailing.

Nauhria achieve levels of excellence through industry best practices, processes and their commitment to continual improvement re nements. They are an active member of the Precast Concrete Association of New Zealand PCNZ.

The brand is well established and is supported through a strong commitment to ongoing research and development which brings new and innovative ideas and products to the forefront of architectural precast design.

Nauhria manufacture high quality precast units which are selectively speci ed at the onset of design and used for many construction projects including commercial, residential, educational and landscaping.

Nauhria also exclusively offer the multi awardwinning brand 'MONARC - Creative Precast Wall Panels' Monarc elevates precast concrete to new heights of excellence in architectural concrete and

To get the best precast for your next project, contact one of Nauhria's experienced sales people who can assist with product option selections and raise key project considerations, ultimately helping to improve the environment we live in together.

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One particularly insidious practice has been the misinformation being supplied about unavailability of precast concrete due to supply problems.

for larger projects.

Another frustration for providers of precast

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concrete products has been the request for fixed prices, based on preliminary drawings without sufficient

Despite recent upturn in activity, total precast production in New Zealand is no higher than in 2008.

Lead times vary in different regions and for different producers. Smaller projects such as houses can typically be fitted in within 5 or 6 weeks but in some regions good planning is required

Machinery Movers Ltd www.macmove.co.nz Wilco Precast is a founding member of Precast NZ and one of the rst Precast NZ Certi ed plants.

Over the last 52 years we have seen and solved just about every possible precast problem and this, combined with our Telarc quality assurance programme, ensures the best outcomes.

We provide solutions to your construction problems - solutions which Wilco, with its extensive production capability, is uniquely placed to provide.

Our customers have the last say, but in working with Wilco you will be offered choices. You can expect us to propose alternatives to architectural and engineering detailing where possible to improve buildability, durability and aesthetics.

We will give you a clear and complete offer with delivery date and ensure that our “in full and on time� customer service philosophy is maintained.

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Machinery Movers are Proud to support Precast NZ Operating it's own eet of trucks, various specialised trailers and forkhoists Machinery Movers offers specialisation in transport handling, dismantling, packing, movement, delivery, site installation of commercial and industrial machinery.

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information to permit accurate costing, and then delays in getting full details to enable necessary pre production work such as shop drawings and approvals in time to meet construction programs.

Protection of Retention In getting its voice heard, PCNZ has been involved in speaking to government on issues such as inclusion of provisions for protection of retentions in the Construction Contract Amendment Bill. The

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failure of Mainzeal several years ago gave impetus to PCNZ’s push on retentions and now, apparently, for the government to move on it.

Retentions on construction projects will be required to be held in trust on behalf of the payee.

PCNZ is represented

on the Specialist Trade Contractors Federation, the voice of the subcontracting industry in New Zealand.

Through them, they worked with Master Builders to develop the first subcontract agreement with input from both head contractors and subcontractors. This is expected to be updated

next year in light of the new legislation.

It seems that fiscal matters are a major and constant concern of PCNZ. It provided financial support to a Supreme Court appeal by sub-contractors that successfully overturned draconian lower court decisions that permitted

liqudators to claw back money that had been paid to subcontractors up to 2 years before a construction company was placed into receivership. This avoided potentially crippling demands on subcontractors.

Closer to home, PCNZ has been involved in a committee drafting

0800Ducting Ltd Supply of spiral wound ducting to the precast concrete industry Spiral wound ducting is used to create a void in the precast panels or beams to allow starter bars, tie rods or stressing cables to be placed in the concrete. After tightening or stressing with hydraulic jacks, the concrete structures are much stronger.

We supply the largest range in NZ from 30mm inside diameter up to 153mm inside diameter.

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Stahlton are proud to have supported Precast New Zealand Incorporated since 1999 and the industry for over 50 years.

Quoting & Technical enquiries call 0800 STAHLTON (0800 782 458) Auckland 47 Airdrie Road, Ranui, Auckland 0612 PO Box 21124, Henderson, Auckland 0650 Ph: 09 831 0107 Fax: 09 833 4408

Christchurch 133 Waterloo Road Hornby, Christchurch 8041 PO Box 8369, Riccarton, Christchurch 8440 Ph: 03 344 3014 Fax: 03 344 3018

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an amendment to NZS3101, the concrete design standard to ensure reccommendations from the Royal Commission and lessons learned from the Christchurch earthquakes are incorporated appropriately into our future construction.

University research Thinking on a deeper level of the physical properties of concrete

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Involved in precast applications, the association has taken a significant interest in university research at Canterbury and Auckland, providing support for aspects of the work. Much of this research has been provoked by the Christchurch earthquakes, in which observations suggested some damage may not have been consistent with our prior understanding.

These indicated the need for further research.

Contributions by PCNZ members to university research projects are estimated to be in the order of $250,000 including materials, facilities, and other support benefitting not only the precasters, but also the wider construction industry and ultimately providing consumers with safer buildings.

Among the work of the

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University of Canterbury has been laboratory testing of sustainable, low loss and demountable precast frame buildings, and low damage seismic design bridges. The University of Auckland has supported the testing of precast panel and foundation connection, and the testing of precast floor connections.

Codes of Practice PCNZ has been involved in encouraging

safe work practices and is currently working with Worksafe NZ on new guides incorporating requirements of updated health and safety legislation.

Appropriate training of employees is a concern of PCNZ, which has initiated and approves training “at all levels.” It says “training and a lack of knowledge of requirements and regulations is a major shortcoming.” It declares

that only 68 apprentices nationally and only 68 and 36 in South Auckland “is not good enough”.

Precast New Zealand is the body representing the interests of the off site precast industry in New Zealand and is involved in a number of associated industry bodies. Its activities extend to subcontracting and construction matters and cover much more than just precast concrete.

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Reliable Foundations

Pod floors were introduced in New Zealand in the mid-nineties and have now become the most popular flooring system on the market.

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RibRaft , Pod Floors or Wa f fl e F o u n d a t i o n s whatever you call them, t h e y a r e t h e predominant flooring system used extensively throughout the country.

P o d fl o o r s w e r e introduced in New Zealand in the midnineties and have now become the most popular flooring system on the market.

The pod floor design offers an insulated slab with superior strength especially in earthquake prone areas. We have seen huge growth in Christchurch mainly due to the rebuild, with the extreme seismic activity in this area pod fl o o r s a re a s i m p l e

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solution to a difficult situation.

Expol manufactures © RibRaft pods in Auckland, Wellington, B l e n h e i m a n d Christchurch. We also offer the full range of

spacers available on the market including the new Expol Unimax Spacers.

The Unimax spacers were developed to p r o v i d e fl o o r i n g contractors with one

spacer that does almost everything required on a pod floor and in some cases eliminates three other spacers. The Unimax spacer system will achieve any size t h i c ke n i n g o r e d g e beam that has been s p e c i fi e d i n t h e engineers design.

Unimax spacers have been welcomed into the

industry and are now our biggest selling spacer with positive feedback that includes cost effectiveness, easier take offs for spacers and time savings onsite.

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Reliable Foundations

National firm builds reliable foundations

Reliable Foundations New Zealand Limited was founded in 2007 in Wellington and is now the largest residential foundation company in New Zealand operating in all major cities.

It is known throughout the country for its customer focussed approach and for the reliability of product and detail it brings to its operations.

Part of the secret in this status is in the way the company is organised, with clearly defined regional responsibilities.

Reliable Foundations New Zealand was

established by Jason Craig and his brother Aaron Craig as joint owners.

In recent times a further partner Simon Henderson was introduced in order to provide the business nationwide coverage between the partners.

Aaron Craig manages the entire South Island Operation, largely focussed on Christchurch,

Dunedin and Queenstown.

Jason controls the Lower North Island, including Wellington and Taranaki and Simon the upper North Island,including Auckland, Waikato and Tauranga.

is the company is able to construct 150 foundations a month, nationwide. RFL specialise in all floating raft foundations for both residential and light commercial sectors.

The operational result

Among the major

national companies Reliable Foundations regularly installs foundations for are Jennian Homes, Horncastle Homes, Platinum Homes, G J Gardiner and Generation Homes.

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In keeping with the nature of the work, Aaron says “we work hard in doing it.”

The backgrounds and qualifications of the partners is important in the success of RFL.

Reliable Foundations is expert in RAFT foundations, including “RibRaft”, “Cupolex” and “RFL Raft” Foundations.

The company’s strength – as well as its reliability – is in its ability to design and install exactly the optimum foundation for the customers needs, making it the country’s leading installer of raft type foundations.

Aaron built many houses throughout his region, before developing a roofing business throughout the greater North Island.

Aaron’s experience in building businesses in the residential construction industry across a vast area has given him professional experience throughout the sector.

Simon is a former National Sales and Operations Manager with a large multi-building supplies chain. Simon’s focus is the continued development of the business in Auckland, Tauranga, Taranaki and Waikato, working from RFL offices based in Pukekohe.

As licensed building contractors, Reliable Foundations staff members holding foundation or carpentry credentials means that clients know, when they are dealing with them on site, they are qualified to offer advice and make decisions.

Jason, has a background in residential construction, having had his own design-and-build business around the greater Wellington area as well as the development of land holdings and subdivisions.

Backing that competence, the systems developed by the company allow it to complete foundation installations more quickly than other foundation methods.

This assures a seamless, cost effective method of installation.

Aaron describes Jason and himself as “old school; we just work hard and when necessary bring people in to do things. The company is founded on family values, and while we are a big business we operate with a great client base and the very best people in the industry”.

The raft slab system employed by Reliable Foundations provides stronger engineered foundations, completed in a shorter period, not dependent on weather variations, with insulation provided to R1.6 specifications.

They have to work hard because “there is no shortage of jobs and there are 200 people employed to keep them up to the mark. So, there is no need for them to bring in subcontractors; “we employ qualified people”

As foundation specialists, RFL will provide total solutions, which are cost effective, from design, engineering and installation standpoints.

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Jensen Steel Fabricators wins nationally and internationally An indicator of the status and achievements of Jensen Steel Fabricators, the Tauranga-based company is provided by its successes at this year's national Excellence in Steel awards, when it won the over $3 million category for its provision of the steel fabrication for the new Avantidrome and High Performance Sports Centre in Cambridge.

Added to that, Jensen Steel was among a group of eight inductees who were awarded ISO 3834 accreditation, a quality standard which relates particularly to fabrication welding. It is an internationally recognised accreditation.

The company went further and achieved the highest quali cation, Construction Category 4 and was one of two companies in New Zealand to rst obtain that level accreditation.

Jensen Steel Fabricators needed to demonstrate to the auditors that it suf ciently met high levels in welding procedures, welder quali cations, material traceability and quality assurance processes.

The pilot project for the accreditation was the Kiwi Rail Project 'Bridge 48'.

Particularly stringent quality requirements, giving Jensen the chance to prove its systems.

especially in relation to health and safety, and Quality Control systems in more recent years following the Christchurch quakes.

This means reinvesting in the business and its employees and their training.

Capital investment has also become a key requirement. The provision of Jensen Steel owned crane and access equipment onsite is an example of this investment in equipment.

While based in the Bay of Plenty and getting much of its work from that region, Jensen Steel have completed projects all around the country. In particular Auckland and the Waikato, but have ventured as far south as Christchurch. At present the Bay is providing a lot off warehouse and coolstore type work off the back off the resurgent kiwifruit industry and growing Tauranga Industrial areas.

Co-director Greg Jensen welcomed gaining the accreditation, because he says it lifts the pro le of the company, gives recognised credibility for the work produced and also gave the staff a sense of pride and achievement in their jobs.

Jensen Steel values the importance of manufacturing steel assemblies to a high quality, and says the company will continue to develop systems that maintain the company's prominent market position. To help achieve this it is using top-of-the-line machinery.

Crucial in this ambition are the use of Peddinghaus machines including the recently added Ocean Clipper Angle Master.

Started in 1987 by Greg and wife,

Robyn, Jensen Steel Fabricators has developed from a small business of 15 and found the Edgecumbe earthquake in 1987 gave the company a kickstart as it rebuilt some of the primary industry infrastructure in the central BOP area.

Challenging years in the 1990s have been overcome by innovation and reinvigorating the business in order to keep up with changing regulations,

Structural Steel Solutions Jensen Steel Fabricators Ltd. Jensen Steel Fabricators was formed in 1987 by Greg and Robyn Jensen. Over the years and after a wide variety of projects, the experienced and committed team at Jensen Steel has developed strong relationships with many of New Zealand’s major leading construction companies and key manufacturers.

Jensen Steel values the importance of manufacturing a high quality steel product. As the construction industry evolves to meet increasing national and international standard requirements, Jensen Steel will continue to develop systems that maintains their prominent market position.

With over twenty-five years of experience in Steel Fabrication, Jensen Steel know that it takes more than fabrication and erection experience to create preferred contractor status.

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Steel construction a rising local story Led by the rebuild of Christchurch and a fast-growing Auckland, New Zealand’s construction industry is set to experience its busiest period in over 40 years. In response, local industry is working hard to meet the demand SCNZ Alistair Fussell for quality, capacity earthquakes. and innovative Driving this dramatic construction solutions.

In the past two decades, the appetite for steel construction has grown substantially.

Today, structural steel’s market share is more than 50% nationwide; in Christchurch, due to the material’s proven seismic performance, steel has increased its share of the multi-level construction market to almost 80%, up from virtually nil prior to the Canterbury

growth has been the i n d u s t r y ’s f o c u s o n innovation and significant investment in high-tech fabrication technology, says Steel Construction New Zealand (SCNZ) manager Alistair Fussell.

“Demand for prefabricated structural steel is now similar to the 2007 peak. Since then, New Zealand structural steel fabricators have kept pace and invested substantially in high-tech

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fabrication technology: Grayson Engineering and D&H Steel in Auckland, Pegasus Engineering in Christchurch, Redsteel in Napier and Calder Stewart in Milton, have all built new state-of-theart workshops; and John Jones’ new workshop in Christchurch is currently under construction,” says Mr Fussell.

Compliance story Notably, the recent boom in construction has led to more imported steelwork entering New Zealand, increasing the risk of non-compliance, says Mr Fussell.

“There have been cases of missing paperwork or steelwork that doesn’t meet the specification, leading to costly project delays.

“Steel Fabricator Certification (SFC) is an industry-led quality assurance scheme to address this compliance issue. Launched last year, SFC provides independent

expert certification of New Zealand fabrication companies. It ensures participating fabricators have appropriate personnel and quality management systems in place to produce work of the required quality,” says Mr Fussell.

N e w Z e a l a n d ’s structural steel fabricators are showing strong support for the scheme. One year on, the number of firms which have achieved SFC certification has doubled to 16, with a further 17 lining up to go through the process.

“As with many construction materials, the current compliance regime for structural steelwork relies, for the most part, on self-inspection and self-certification. This approach is dependent

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About Steel Construction New Zealand Steel Construction New Zealand Inc. (SCNZ) aims to advance the interests of New Zealand’s diverse steel construction industry by promoting the benefits of steel solutions in building and infrastructure projects. SCNZ has 301 members including manufacturers of structural steel and steel products, distributors, fabricators, designers, detailers, galvanisers, and paint and building supply companies.

SCNZ provides its members with technical advice on the latest in steel design trends and standards, networking opportunities and a representative voice with key industry and government decision-makers. Along with SCNZ manager Alistair Fussell, four professional engineers provide technical expertise. For more information please visit www.scnz.org

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“Significantly, SFC gives certified New Zealand fabricators an important point of difference, particularly compared with imported prefabricated steelwork.

SFC provides procurers and specifiers, such as engineers, architects and contractors, with more certainty of product quality and significantly reduces compliance risk,” says Mr Fussell.

Capacity meets demand The steel construction

industry is developing a capacity model to forecast demand. Using factbased labour-resource data, combined with construction intel sourced from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), engineers, builders and developers, the industry is building a project database.

Mr Fussell says it will allow the structural steel industry to anticipate demand and make informed decisions about future investment in training, plant and equipment, recruitment and collaboration.

Collaboration, too, is playing a growing role in the successful delivery of structural steel projects. For example,

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steelwork for the Forsyth Barr Stadium and, more recently, the Christchurch Bus Interchange, was fabricated in Auckland and Christchurch, and transported and erected on site.

The industry is also exploring how it can collaborate with Australian operators, particularly

when looking to resource the sizeable Auckland projects in the pipeline.

Mr Fussell says clients will benefit from having a local fabricator on the ground to oversee the project.

Tapping into additional capacity across The Ditch, when necessary, will ensure an uninterrupted supply.

Procurement In 2013 the government introduced its new Rules of Sourcing, which Mr Fussell says represents a significant step forward for local industry. The rules require consideration of the five Principles of Government Procurement, which provide the foundation for balanced decision-making at all stages of the procurement lifecycle, from initial planning through to the contract’s completion.

However, there has been little evidence of

them taking effect, says Mr Fussell.

“It means that key attributes are at risk of being overlooked during the tender review process, leading to tenders being evaluated on their upfront cost and ignoring the social, environmental and economic attributes of the deal.

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Architects and engineers—a winning combination for Holmes Consulting but we take just as much pride in these projects as the architects,” said Mr. Nevile.

Other winning projects Holmes delivered design engineering solutions for include the Stranges and Glendenning Hill Building Replacement in Christchurch (Commercial category), and the Mackelvie Street Shopping Precinct (Commercial category) and MIT Manukau & Transport Interchange (Education category) in Auckland.

Structural engineering firm Holmes Consulting is celebrating with the winners of the country’s premier architectural competition, the New Zealand Architecture Awards Holmes delivered the engineering for five of the winning projects, including the top prize—the 2015 New Zealand Architecture Medal, awarded to the new Blyth Performing Arts Centre at Iona College, Havelock North. Another building at the same school, the Iona College Information Resource Centre, also won an award in the Education category.

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design partners at Stevens Lawson Architects, who set their sights exceptionally high with Iona College.

We’re absolutely delighted in the part we were able to play in bringing these ambitious projects to life,” said Hamish Nevile, Project Director at Holmes Consulting.

The jurors described

the Blyth Performing Arts Centre as a ‘beautifully planned and executed building in which technical as well as architectural issues have been resolved masterfully.’

“Our skill is ensuring the architect’s design is well supported with sympathetic structural engineering. Our role may be less visible,

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About Holmes Group: Holmes Group Limited is a multinational consultancy made up of Holmes Consulting G ro u p ( s t r u c t u r a l a n d civil engineering), Holmes Fire (fire engineering) including Holmes Farsight (compliance and regulatory guidance), Holmes Solutions (product development, testing and certification), Westbrook Capital Partners (real estate investment management) and Holmes Culley (structural engineering in the United States).

They employ more than 300 people in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. Part of the weightless export economy they have a highly skilled workforce.

Founded in Christchurch almost 60 years ago they have offices in Auckland, H a m i l t o n , We l l i n g t o n , Christchurch, Queenstown, Sydney, Los Angeles and S a n F r a n c i s c o . w w w. holmesgrouplimited.com

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Integrity in steel fabrication an MJH Engineering trait A leading structural steel fabricator and erector, MJH Engineering is proud of its ability to deliver the contracted project on time and within budget, whether it be a long-span portal frame warehouse, a multi-storey tower block, or a considerable sized component of infrastructure.

MJH says working to maintain that record it has invested substantially in ensuring it has state-of-theart plant to precisely cut, drill and weld the steel beams and columns which are major components of the projects it is involved in.

MJH’s modern approach to structural steel construction in New Zealand includes skilled detailers using industry leading software which interfaces with the production process, eliminating errors and wastage. It says it is enthusiastic about taking advantage of the technology available to steel fabrication.

It is constantly introducing new plant and equipment to streamline and enhance its processes.

Among modern machinery employed by the firm is pre-process equipment, most of which is automated. Computer

worked in collaboration with other fabricators throughout the country to provide the steel necessary for a project.

While the company is highly competitive in obtaining tenders for work, it also has many approaches and requests for it to undertake projects.

“Our passion for the elegance and costdrawing packages are used to produce the necessary CNC (computerised numeric control) information to interface with this equipment.

This computerised approach reduces the human error element, ensuring no errors can creep into the p r o c e s s . Wo r k i n g w i t h the computerised drawing processes, a huge number of steel elements are produced, with the MIT (Manukau Institute of Technology) project requiring around 12,000 detail drawings.

MJH Engineering has a team of six detailers producing fabrication drawings in its Wellington office. After all drawings of the various parts of a structure are completed, they are transferred to an assembly drawing for fabrication, which culminates in displaying the final set of plans for the structure, basically indicating how its parts should be bolted together on site.

The company’s approach to its tasks has earned it

a reputation for integrity in all its dealings with its customers, always delivering quality work, because it constantly aims for the best possible product. This is further demonstrated with their recent AS\NZS ISO 3834 certification.

M a j o r We l l i n g t o n regional projects, in which it has provided steel fabrication, include the Wellington Indoor Sports Stadium, Elevate Apartments, various Victoria University developments, Hayward’s Pole 3 project.

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effectiveness of steel fabrication is matched by our concern for safety in the workshop and on site.”

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action will help observers appreciate what drives it.

MJH Engineering says it is continuing to grow to help meet the needs in today’s industry. It began in 1982 in a 200 square metre area, with one employee – managing director, Malcolm Hammond.

It now employs over 100 staff based on its Gracefield Road, Lower Hutt workshop.

Initially, it specialised in factory fitout and maintenance. Since then it has expanded, moving into the building industry, specialising in the complex prefabricated structural building and erection process, including many large structural steel contracts. Consequently it has developed a strong working relationship with several main contractors and works to provide extra support in key areas, ensuring

that projects are completed within the required time frames.

It has developed a highly

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Innovation, performance and safety have become bywords in MJH Engineering’s approach to steel fabrication, with management playing a part, both in the workshop and on site. Its expert operations in both are maintained by a commitment to continuous staff training.

I t s a y s : “ We a r e proud to be recognised for our contribution to industrial education. With apprenticeships available at junior and senior levels, further training is supported by the company in many areas.” It has recently completed a case study for Steel Construction (SCNZ) as part of its commitment to the industry’s development.

It is fully committed to a safer working environment and it has introduced health and safety management systems, which are reviewed and updated regularly.

This is in keeping with its membership in Site Safe NZ, the Industry Tr a i n i n g O r g a n i s a t i o n (ITO), Competenz, the Crane Association of New Zealand, the New Zealand Heavy Engineering Research Association (HERA) and Steel Construction New Zealand. (SCNZ).

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Chapman Engineering

Chapman Engineering innovative steel fabricator Chapman Engineering Limited has firmly established itself as an Innovative Leader in Canterbury’s Structural Steel Market and was the first Structural Steel Company in Christchurch to introduce a production line method of fabricating steel.

The Company was formed more than 30 years ago by Chris and Tracy Chapman ANZ Building and specialises in Fabricating and and is continually investing When the Christchurch The company has been (780 tonnes), Pak ‘N Save Erecting Structural and updating machinery, earthquakes left the city involved in numerous multi- Food Warehouse, Rangiora Steel. technology and training. It devastated and needing a million dollar rebuild projects (350 tonnes), Hornby Hub Chapman Engineering is renowned for its Innovation and ability to lead the structural steel market.

The company operates in state-of-the-art facilities

is also one of three only structural steel fabricators in the South Island that is SFC Certified focusing on quality assurance of a quality product and representing international best practice.

massive rebuild, and steel became the preferred material to provide the stability to meet new earthquake standards, Chapman Engineering was ideally placed to meet the massively increased demand.

ranging from the four-storey Hazeldean Carpark (1,000 tonnes), Opus House (600 tonnes), the Skellerup relocation (600 tonnes), ANZ (1,500 tonnes), Westpac (550 tonnes), Rolleston School

(350 tonnes) and Mitre 10 Papanui (230 tonnes).

Chapman Engineering is 100 per cent New Zealandowned and operated and strives to achieve a highly skilled, motivated and

professional team with a total of 251 combined years in the structural steel industry with an emphasis on further staff training and health and safety.

Chris is always searching outside the box for new and better ways to achieve a competitive, quality service at the best possible price.

Incorporated within the company a full structural steel package is available, from tendering to a full design and draft office, fabrication and welding by fully qualified staff with two fully qualified quality assurance officers on the floor at all times ensuring the highest quality standards of workmanship through to company transport, cranes (ranging from 120 tonnes to three tonnes) and site erection teams and a site safety officer ensuring safety procedures are followed at all times.

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The service offering in the early days was focused on sandblasting and spray painting of truck and boat trailors, shipping containers and looking after the smaller engineering customers. The business grew at a steady pace and in 1995 it was time for a new adventure for Neville and his partner. Maverick Sandblasting was sold and it would be 16 26 - BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS - SUMMER 2015

location at 21 Izone Drive in Rolleston.

This move to a larger and better equipped premises marked a fundamental change, positioning Maverick's as a prominent player in the structural and infrastructure market segments of industrial coating application.

years before Neville's ventures lead him back to the company where it all started.

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The Maverick family of 15 are committed to quality, with constant supervision of the different operations by the Yard Foreman, Benny and quality checks and test by the Quality Inspector Graeme. In addition Maverick have also recruited the services of an independent

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Quality control is Southern QA’s forte weekly, with inspection programmes on several jobs running concurrently.

The modern world’s use of steel in construction has been increasing, but while New Zealand has been moving in this direction, it took the Christchurch earthquakes, now five years past to cause a real swing in favour of steel over reinforced concrete.

Steel-framed buildings will generally survive seismic events with lower damage, as is evidenced with the relatively speedy return to service of the Pacific Tower and HSBC Tower after the Canterbury earthquakes.

He detects some problems in the industry with imported fabricated steel sometimes manufactured to different specifications.

This heightens the need to have processes which detect such variations. Also, with the rebuild in Christchurch placing demands on the supply of steel – there has been an increase, he says, from around a 12 per cent floor area use of steel, to more than 50 per cent – that greater demand is placing strains on the system.

Another impact of the earthquakes has been that steel fabrication companies have had to comply with stricter QA (quality assurance) requirements to ensure designs function as intended, which has engendered an industrywide lift in standards of fabrication, welding and bolting practices.

Southern QA is described by its Technical Manager, Rob Penney as the largest New Zealand-owned company in the field of welding inspection and nondestructive testing (NDT).

It is a member of HERA (the Heavy Engineering Research Association), is accredited by IANZ, and employs inspectors certified by both New Zealand and overseas bodies.

That is where a company like Southern QA comes into the picture. With the need to make sure all the requirements were being met, Southern QA has continued to keep a quality eye on the fabrication and erection of all the steel which goes into modern New Zealand buildings.

Penney says Southern QA provides inspection and quality assurance services for a variety of industries, with steel fabrication one of the major ones. It also provides services for industries such as dairying, hydro, marine, mining, coal and gas, petro-chemical, manufacturing and others.

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Formed in 1987, Southern QA has 10 shareholders and has branches in Christchurch, Invercargill and Hamilton.

“We go where there is a need and have undertaken work from Antarctica to Asia and the US”, says Penney.

inspectors, working off the design drawings and specifications for a building, or a bridge, or any other steel structure, inspect various aspects, starting with raw material compliance, to the welding and on to erection of the structure.

of the quality control programme work is that it should be established before a structural job begins. “We should do the testing early in the process and at intervals throughout the production.”

The process may involve x-ray or ultrasonic testing.

As far as steel is concerned, Penney points to the New Zealand Standard NZS 3404. Design engineers will design a building for a particular loading and “the engineer is expecting the building to perform up to that design loading.” Critical components, which are more common in post-quake designs, will need rigorous QA to ensure they meet an engineer’s requirements.

The New Zealand welding standards are shared with those of Australia and the vigilance of Southern QA’s inspectors helps ensure steel fabrication companies have trained and certified welders and fabricators to a sufficient level to meet the required standard.

This will help ensure that a steel component is not in place and buried in concrete and then found to be deficient. “The fabricator and engineer both need to know on an ongoing basis that the welds are not a problem.”

To embed certainty into the process Southern QA will set up a schedule of regular inspection. In the case of companies like Chapman Engineering Ltd this may mean inspections on a daily basis, or several times

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There are also smaller companies seeking a slice of the action, when often such work is out of their depth.

Whereas Documentation is a key factor in the quality assurance process, this should start before any work is done. From the time a council issues a consent there are the standards, the designer’s drawings and specifications, the fabrication drawings, the material certificates, welding and bolting procedures and the like.

“If the fabricator does not have the systems in place to handle the paperwork requirements then it is very difficult.”

Penney says Southern QA and its counterparts play a critical role in the process of verifying the bona fides of the whole process. “That is one of the roles that companies like ours can fulfil. Our job is to ensure that whatever building is erected, that the steel meets the standard.”

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Tony Faulks –Central Otago kid to emerging mogul

Otago valleys, hills and mountains. Essentially, Tony follows in the footsteps of his great grandfather, John Faulks, who emigrated from the British Isles, and set to taming the Central Otago landscape.

To n y l e a r n e d h i s passion for the work process from the generations of Faulks, and has imparted it into the current business.

It now has extensive work, from earthworks and landscaping and section development, to demolition and construction, road damage containment and rectification, underground infrastructure and haulage, all the way to civil engineering.

Much of this derives from farming the land following clearance of the bush, and aligning tracks and roads, along with bordering ditches, bridges and varied construction

It is a long way from two sheep stations and flax and sawmilling at the head of Lake Wanaka, playing a large part in the development of Central Otago in the 19th century, to machinery, construction and earthworks operations, but that is the progression made by Tony Faulks, a son of the central region.

Starting at 17 in Queenstown, Tony Faulks is now managing director of Faulks Investments a modern company which, at its core, is not all that far removed from the toil of breaking in the Central

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w o r k . S o , To n y h a s developed from the raw youth working on central projects to his managing director’s position in a company which not only carries out all the described work, but has invested in all new Kenworth’s and Caterpillar plant.

With a bulldozer, a truck and a saw bench and a good deal of skill, Tony expanded his horizons, developing into a construction company along with investments in land. The word got around about his capabilities and dedication, ensuring increasing offers of work and an expanding range of skills.

From Central Otago to Christchurch, the work has been available and Faulks Investment has played a part in the post-earthquake rebuild. It has been involved with typical quality and passion. It is now unrivalled for the scope and quality of its work, driven by the passion of its founder, Tony Faulks.

Now based in Buchanans Road, in Christchurch, for Faulks Investments the effects of the earthquake has assisted

its recent development. This has brought an expansion to 18 trucks and “goodness knows how many diggers” says Tony.

While such a rapid increase is sometimes a danger to expanding companies, Tony is aware of the traps and says: “We have the experience and the potential to prevent us getting in too deep, so we are always aware of that.”

A s f o r m a n p o w e r,

Faulks currently has three crews doing demolition work in Christchurch and this sometimes expands to four teams. However, two thirds of the company’s work is civil construction, with a good deal of it subcontracting. Alongside Faulks Investment there is a development company which also has regular commitments.

One of Tony Faulks’ closest staff member, is the

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General Manager Corran Pywell, who has been with the company for 20 years.

He points out that much of the company’s subcontract work is associated with long-established major companies.

Three current substantial contracts for Faulks Investment are the West Rolleston School with Southbase, also a St Margaret’s College, Christchurch and Intelligro, formerly SouthHort, at Rolleston. All are major excavations, as well as hard fill placements.

Faulks has previously done considerable work o n t h e S t M a rg a r e t ’s site, including building demolition, and excavation of foundations for new classrooms, as well as hard filled placement. There was also hard and soft landscaping, including detailed concrete work and planter boxes. One of the

company’s aims is to be “a one stop shop.” “we could start with a grass paddock, or a building to be demolished and go right through to the finished product.

So, it is a good team, with its top group of project and contract managers.

The greatest challenge for the company, is that of a changing market. It is very competitive with a large number of contractors seeking a piece of the Christchurch pie. “ I t ’s b e c o m e v e r y competitive and having an established name with some of the big companies is very important.” That is something Faulks Investment has built up over the last five years and now that the demolition stage in the city is largely completed, the rebuild presents different challenges.

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company’s standing is that it has been put forward for a pair of contract awards, which will be decided at the end of the year.

Faulks also won the Subcontractor of the year last year for Civil Contractors awards.

Tony Faulks’ progress and that of his company is depicted by a large mural in the company’s Buchanans Road workshop. It shows an array of old diggers and trucks, the kind of gear that the company has been built on, accompanying the passion and commitment of its founder.

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Award-winning Urban Homes’ Cambridge show home Hamilton-based Urban Homes has recently opened a new show home, named Fendalton 286 to display the style of family homes it is offering.

Award-winning Urban Homes, owned by director, Daniel Klinkenberg has featured the show home at 12 Alan Livingston Drive, St Kilda, in Cambridge to demonstrate the award winning style, innovation and design that goes into every home they have the privilege of being involved with.

Fendalton 286 is a 286 metre dwelling, described as having exceptional style and warmth and is a fourbedroom home, with three living areas - a kitchen and dining area, a family area, which is open plan and is separate from the third, the lounge.

The cladding is of brick recycled from Christchurch and it has a black Eurostyle roof, extending down as cladding on the walls. There is also vertical cedar which creates a design point-ofdifference. The home has been arranged around a central covered area with kwila decking.

The main living area, lounge and rumpus room – which is adjacent to three of the bedrooms - open off the central area, creating an excellent indoor–outdoor flow. Luxury details include a free-standing bath which complements an ensuite, which also opens to a private spa area.

Along with the show home, Urban Homes has a Design Centre which has a wide variety of options for clients to explore, such as examples of fixtures and fittings, a large selection of plans, photo galleries and examples of finishes.

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presence in this prestigious sub-division. Every home is unique, which is great as we specialise in design and build.

The show home style suits the prevailing style of homes in the sub-division, which are all situated to gain maximum sun and are insulated to a higher standard than required, and include water tanks and solar panels.

The disposition of the houses is covenanted with the purchase of sections, which Daniel says is appreciated by buyers. Daniel believes this is a trend-leading move.

Urban Homes’ attention to quality has led to successes in national and local

Registered Master Builders’ House-of-the-Year awards this year winning Gold for New Homes $400,000$500,000 category and Gold and the overall category for New Homes $650-$1

million. Both homes will go forward to the national finals.

Contact: Urban Homes, 444 Angelsea Street, Hamilton; 07 839 5570; email, office@urban.co.nz; www.urban.co.nz

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Arrow International

Arrow International Clare House developer The expansion of Clare House, a retirement complex in the Invercargill suburb of Waikiwi is being undertaken by the national development and construction company, Arrow International NZ LTD, a wellknown company which has a strong presence in the Deep South where it has undertaken many major developments.

The Clare house premises are situated at 51 and 77 Durham Street in Invercargill and the current work is valued at about $10 million.

The Stage 1 expansion of the Clare House retirement village and rest home has been in progress since July this year and is due to be completed

by Arrow International

The new block will also contain a new main entrance, also an administration area. In particular, there will be 15 higher level residential care rooms, six onebedroom apartments, and 2 two bedroom apartments. There will also be a lounge, a dining room and a library.

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in March next year. The addition will increase the current 41 beds already in use, with about half of these being for dementia patients.

Arrow International’s construction of the new wing will add it onto the current Clare House premises. It will contain a mixture of single rooms with some studio units for residents.

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will be areas for physio, training and hairdressing, while there will be provision for associated service rooms and plant rooms.

This is the first stage of a two-stage addition, with the second due to start early next year, after the completion of the current work.

In the second stage, 13 higher level residential care bedrooms will be added, also six one bedroom apartments, four studio units and externally there will be further hard landscaping.

As well as the moving of the entrance and administration areas, relocation and removals will include the laundry, which will also be expanded. The existing building will include reconstruction of the lounge and dining areas, the upgrading of the fire rating of several walls – including above the ceilings – along with the upgrade of sprinkler and fire detection systems.

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running to the new wing, with the need to provide the underground facilities from the roadside. Along with the utilities work, Arrow will do the hard landscaping structures.

With his time in the southern region – being a good Southern Man – Nick has developed an appreciation of the area, and Arrow International’s southern regional team has

seen very good growth in its region.

The expansion, a single level, covers an area of 2500 square metres, and initially involves considerable piling work, as a direct result of the tightening of regulations following the Christchurch earthquakes.

In a building which is to house elderly citizens, such special requirements are mandatory.

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32 Years of Laser From humble beginnings as an electrical contractor in Auckland in 1983, Laser Group has evolved to become the leading electrical and plumbing contracting network across Australia and New Zealand.

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There are now over 200 member companies, employing in excess of 1500 staff throughout both countries. These Member businesses are all enjoying all the benefits that come as part of the multi award winning Laser business system.

It all started when two entrepreneurial electricians, Peter Bassett and David Clemmett set up their own electrical contracting company, Laser Electrical Ltd. Due to a commitment by the

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owners and managers to outstanding customer service and implementing strong systems, Laser Electrical Ltd rapidly grew to become one of New Zealand’s largest contracting firms and still successfully operates t o d a y. B a s e d o n t h e vision of becoming the leading provider of Totally Dependable Plumbing and Electrical Services, utilising Laser’s leading process control systems and recognising the demand in the market for a national supplier, the Laser business model was developed and licenced in 1999 and evolved to become a full membership business model in late 2003. Laser’s membership base rapidly increased including expansion into Australia in 2004. Laser Group Australia now also has over 100 members nationwide.

Testament to Laser’s success, Laser Group was awarded the New Zealand “Supreme Franchise Industry Award” back to back in 2005 and 2006.

Laser Plumbing was initiated in 2006, utilising the same award winning systems and processes Laser was built upon in both the Australian and New Zealand market.

Today we are proud to have in excess of 200 Members throughout Australasia and it is our goal to dramatically increase this within the next few years for true Nationwide coverage both in Australia and New Zealand.

LASER EMPLOYEE WINS DUX SCHOLARSHIP Dux are proud supporters in the future of the New Zealand Plumbing Industry and this year launched the Dux Scholarship Program through the Apprentice Training Trust (ATT).

“We saw the need to invest in the trade, support the next generation of Apprentices whilst also rewarding businesses and apprentices that are working hard together in a positive environment said Jeff La Haye, General Manager of Dux. The Dux Scholarship is designed to recognise the best all round first year ATT apprentice. The selection process rewards the best p e r f o r m e r, i n c l u d i n g their attitude, academic ability, practical skills and personality.

The first winner of the Dux Scholarship is local resident Jaycob Walker from Laser Plumbing East Tamaki. Dux will fully fund Jaycob’s course fees for the remainder of his apprenticeship. Laser Plumbing East Tamaki as his host employer will also be rewarded for supporting the future generation of plumbers, receiving Dux product to the value of $2,500 per year for each year of the scholarship ($7,500 in total).

“We are so proud of Jaycob. He is a motivated, capable apprentice, with a great work ethic. He sets high standards in both his

practical work and academic results. Jaycob’s dedication to his work and high skill level has made him an outstanding apprentice that is truly worthy of this scholarship. The whole team is excited for him” said Gillian Westbooke, Human Resource Manager from Laser Plumbing East Tamaki.

Susie Paterson, Marketing Manager for Dux said “As soon as we arrived at Laser Plumbing East Tamaki it was evident that Jaycob was highly regarded by his employers and his peers, and it did not take long for us to work out why. Jaycob is clearly a reliable, driven and talented young man who has a bright future ahead of him. Jaycob showed a maturity level well beyond his years, outlined well thought out career goals and demonstrated a good balance between work and outside interests. Dux is proud to award Jaycob as the inaugural Dux Scholar for 2015. Congratulations Jaycob”.

We are grateful to Dux for this Scholarship which is a testament to the training environment our Company provides. It takes 4 years of practical and academic training to qualify to become a Licensed Plumber, Gasfitter and/or Drainlayer the same time as a University Degree!

Many of our Apprentices continue to work in our Company after qualifying and it is rewarding to see them develop a career in this great trade” says Roger Westbrook Director of Laser Plumbing East Tamaki.

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SCM Frigo - Exclusive Distribution Patton is pleased to announce its appointment as exclusive distributor for SCM Frigo refrigeration systems in New Zealand, Australia and the South Paci c region.

Established in 1979 SCM Frigo is a leading global provider of specialized products and engineered solutions in natural refrigerants.

Speci cally CO2 and NH3 (Ammonia).

product development and, like Patton, are leaders in the introduction of new products for the ever-changing demands of the refrigeration industry.

Patton is proud to be representing the following product range.

Patton CEO Sameer Handa says “We are very excited to be exclusive distributors of this European leader in natural refrigerant product. With over 1200 successful installations in CO2, including famous brand s u p e r m a r k e t s s u c h a s C a r r e f o u r, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Marks & Spencer, this partnership will enable Patton's to pursue growth and take advantage of opportunities in new market areas with proven products.”

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HFC - DX & Indirect Chillers &

Racks/Screw sets. (Indoor & outdoor).

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ew Zealand designed and manufactured, the award winning INTAKS is a simple access scaffolding system providing guardrails for roof edge protection and working platforms for all trades to work safely.

INTAKS can be used for new home builds, maintenance, roo ng projects and commercial construction making it a one -system solution giving builders more freedom and choices.

Lightweight and compact, INTAKS is a modular system has been

designed to be simple to set-up and easy to adjust.

This means that INTAKS can quickly be adapted to suit any job or terrain. In fact INTAKS can be assembled into over 15 different con gurations to overcome many different working at height issues that face residential and commercial sites.

It can also be jacked up under a balcony or eave to provide roof edge protection on existing buildings for maintenance, painting, re-roofs etc.

With INTAKS there is no longer any

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need for harnesses. Workers are free to complete the job quicker doing away with troublesome lengthening and shortening of ropes as they complete the job.

This also opens up the labour eld, as workers can now work in a passive environment and no longer need to be trained in the use of harnesses.

With minimal ground footprint and plank spans up to 4.8 metres, INTAKS means a building site becomes more accessible and multiple trades can work together meaning shor ter project time frames.

INTAKS is also easier and more cost effective to get to site and set up.

INTAKS is 80 percent lighter than steel scaffolding.

The lightweight system means that INTAKS takes far less time, truck tonnage and manpower to put up and pack down.

The INTAKS system is certi ed as complying with AS/NZS 1664.1,

Department of Labour Best Practice Guidelines for Scaffolding in New Zealand, AS/NZS 4994.1.2009 Temporary Roof Edge Protection and A S 6001 Work ing Platforms for Housing Construction.

The interlocking system makes the planks strong and steady offering workers unparalleled support to work safely. The system's planks also butt join end to end eliminating overlapping of planks and reducing opportunities for trip hazards and the dreaded 50mm death drop.

INTAKS is available for purchase or hire. INTAKS has installers based around the country meaning builders, roofers and main contractors now only need to deal with one company for all their scaffolding needs.

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NTAKS has won the safety innovation category (small to medium organisations) at the Site Safe Construction Health and Safety Awards 2015. The company won the award for the Apex Post, a solution designed by INTAKS that makes it safer for workers to install guardrails on the apex of buildings.

The post eliminates the need for the installer to scale the apex and put themselves at risk.

“Traditionally this part of the job exposes the installer to multiple fall hazards as the installer usually has minimal footing to stand on, since the roof is not usually installed at that stage, and is, at times, climbing trusses,” explains Joel

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Warren from INTAKS. “Risk is further increased during the dismantle as the installer will be removing the guardrails off the new roof, which is usually slippery, and more often than not after the lower edge protection has been taken down since the gable scaffold is usually the last to be removed.”

He says while a partial solution has been to use a harness, many new homes don't have anchor points making this solution slow and only able to minimise the risks.

The INTAKS Apex Post has ve ngers (four to accommodate the edge protection and the fth for a raker or brace should it be required), which are designed to t inside

aluminium tube and standard scaffold tube. The ngers swivel to adjust for different roof pitches and are set to be the correct distance apart once installed. By working off the safety of the platform or ground the Apex Post is installed into the top of a standard with the ngers set at approximately the same angle as the roof. The post is then erected and secured in position at the apex of the gable. Working behind the lower guardrails or from the platform the Apex Post allows the installer to slide the tube over the ngers until it comes to a stop. The tube is then secured onto the lower guardrail with a coupler.

Joel says that since launching the

Apex Post in April 2015 feedback from industry has been overwhelmingly positive as also evidenced by the award win.

“Installers feel safe on site and we have also had reports of productivity improvements due to shor ter installation and dismantle times.”

The Apex Post complements the award winning patented INTAKS scaffold edge protection system, which was a nalist in the same category at the 2014 awards. The simple access system provides guardrails for roof edge protection and working platforms for all trades to work safely on new home builds, maintenance, roo ng and commercial construction projects.

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Sustainability

Sustainability is a way of life

Sustainability is now With the recent emissions corruption scandal surrounding Volkswagen New Zealand, consumers and companies are focusing on how sustainability and sustainability reporting is managed.

The scandal reveals a link between sustainability, corporate social responsibility and corporate reputation.

It also demonstrates that corporate reputation and profitability are interlinked as Volkswagen saw a sharp drop in their share price following the revelation.

In addition, it brings into question the credibility of sustainability ratings and rankings based on selfassessments that exclude independent third party verification.

The story may increase public awareness of sustainability and sustainable practices. Consumers have access to information and are conducting online research, taking recommendations from peers and reading product labels prior to making purchases.

A 2014 Colmar Brunton, Better Business Better Future Report showed that there is increasing demand for more sustainable consumer products and services with 90 percent of New Zealand consumers’ purchasing behaviour being influenced by whether a company and its products are sustainable.

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In a 2014 Nielsen report, 55% of consumers around the world said they were now more willing to pay more for products provided by companies which were “committed to positive social and environmental impact.”

As customer requirements change and responsible approaches begin to make good business sense, businesses are working to reduce the environmental impacts of their products, services and their workplaces.

They are seeking solutions from ways to decrease power consumption to methods to manage waste and e-waste.

Richard Tong Chairman of the New Zealand Labelling Trust says “Consumers conscious decision-making is driving businesses to consider corporate social responsibility through sustainability.”

The New Zealand Labelling Trust manages Environmental Choice New Zealand (ECNZ), the government’s environmental labelling programme, owned and endorsed by The Ministry for the Environment.

The Environmental Choice label is a Type I ecolabel which means it looks at the lifecycle impact of a product, uses multi-criteria assessment, is audited independently by a thirdparty and meets the ISO 14020/24 principles.

To n g s a y s t h a t K i w i businesses are taking sustainability seriously.

“They are starting to see the financial benefits to ‘doing good’. The Environmental Choice green and black globe and tick symbol is a soughtafter label.”

Environmental Choice board member Karen McDonald brings a consumer-focused perspective to the board from her five years plus at Consumer New Zealand.

McDonald says she has also noticed a growing customer awareness and demand for products and services that are better for the environment.

“Sustainability is becoming part of the mainstream and as consumers demand more environmentally-friendly products, sustainability becomes a real consideration for businesses in terms of customers and brand.”

Opportunities for the building industry As the public’s perception of and demand for certified green buildings becomes more positive, the building industry is also experiencing a shift toward efficiency and sustainability.

Environmental Choice supports the New Zealand Green Building Council’s (NZGBC) philosophy of an environmentally responsible approach to building and construction.

Former Group Environment, Health and Safety Manager for Fletcher Building Hans Buwalda who recently joined the ECNZ board, provides

governance, strategy and risk management advice on environment, health and safety issues.

Buwalda says Environmental Choice shares many of the same views as the NZGBC such as promoting a green built environment.

“That we provide products in these categories is a testament to the fact that we share similar philosophies.”

He says Environmental Choice products can be used in green building projects as they have met the highest standards and demonstrate environmental preferability.

Environmental Choice labelled products are recognised by both Green Star and Homestar rating tools. Architects and builders who specify the use of Environmental Choice labelled products will gain the advantage of having those products count toward the materials credit. The points support their Green Star or Homestar rating application.

Environmental Choice building-related specifications focused on building products include: • Paints • Gypsum Plasterboard • Thermal Building Insulants • Floor Coverings • Synthetic Carpets • Flat and Long Steel Products

Cleaning products for green building In August 2015 Environmental Choice New Zealand was approved by the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) as an international equivalent to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice label in the area of cleaning products.

The approval means that anyone undertaking the Living Building Challenge Vs 3.0 to design and construct an environmentally sustainable ‘living building’ project in New Zealand will meet the requirements of the Health Petal, Healthy Interior Environment Imperative, by using cleaning products t h a t c a r r y t h e o ff i c i a l Environmental Choice label.

Richard Tong, MSc (Hons).

Chair.

Kim Calvert Stakeholder Representative

Robin Taylor, Environmental Choice New Zealand General Manager, says the endorsement is great news for New Zealand as it validates that the ecolabelling scheme is on a par with global standards.

Hans Buwalda

“Our specifications are robust and we have a rigorous multi-criteria assessment and independent third party verification process. It’s great that our commitment to high environmental standards has paid off. This approval will give New Zealand consumers further confidence that they can select safer products without sacrificing quality or performance,” he says.

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Health & Safety Reform Bill

New Health and Safety legislation.

The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 comes into force on the 4th April 2016 So what does this mean for us, do we need to be afraid of massive change.

The short answer is NO. If you are currently complying with the Health and Safety in employment Act 1992 then you don’t need to panic. You will need to make some changes in line with those required by parts of the new Health and Safety at Work Act. S o w h a t a re t h e main changes in the new legislation?

1. There is a change to focus on the management of risk as opposed to the current focus on management of hazards.

This means that instead of managing the hazards (source of potential damage, harm

or adverse health effects), you need to identify the hazards as usual but your management should be focused on the risk (chance or probability that a person will be harmed or experience an adverse health effect if exposed to a hazard).

You can have the same hazard in two different workplaces but depending on the work being undertaken you may have two very different levels of risk for that hazard and therefore under the new legislation you would need to assess the risk and put in place measures to manage that hazard based on the assessed risk.

There is a requirement set out in the new legislation that a PCBU (Person Conducting a Business Or Undertaking) has the primary duty of care because the PCBU is in the best position to control risks to work health and safety as they are

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carrying out the business or undertaking.

The primary duty of care requires all PCBUs to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable: 1.the health and safety of its workers or those workers who are influenced or directed by the PCBU (for example its workers and contractors) 2. that the health and safety of other people is not put at risk from work carried out as part of the conduct of the business or undertaking (for example its visitors and customers).

So what is meant by “so far as is reasonably practicable”?

R e a s o n a b l y practicable, in relation to a duty of a PCBU, means that which is, or was, at a particular time, reasonably able to be done in relation to ensuring health and safety, taking into account and weighing up all relevant

matters, including— a. The likelihood of the hazard or the risk concerned occurring; and b. the degree of harm that might result from the hazard or risk; and c. w h a t t h e p e r s o n concerned knows, or ought reasonably to know, about— (i) the hazard or risk; and (ii) ways of eliminating or minimising the risk; and d. the availability and suitability of ways to eliminate or minimise the risk; and e. a f t e r a s s e s s i n g t h e extent of the risk and the available ways of eliminating or minimising the risk, the cost associated with available ways of eliminating or minimising the risk, including whether the cost is grossly

disproportionate to the risk.

Because PCBUs have duties to workers affected by their work, not just to those that work for it, it’s possible for PCBUs to have overlapping duties.

Many modern work situations involve multiple duty holders that have overlapping duties. For example, there may be a number of different businesses working together or alongside each other on a single work site, such as a construction site, and through contracting or supply chains. The Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 already creates and provides for such overlapping duties, so the need for duty holders to work together to meet their duties is not new– it’s just more explicit in the new Act. Many workplaces will already be following this approach.

The Act makes it clear that PCBUs need to work

together to meet their duties to ensure that the work does not pose risks to people’s health and safety.

If a PCBU has a duty or an obligation under the Act, the PCBU must exercise due diligence to ensure that the PCBU complies with that duty or obligation.

Due diligence includes taking reasonable steps— a. to acquire, and keep up to date, knowledge of work health and safety matters; and b. to gain an understanding of the nature of the operations of the business or undertaking of the PCBU and generally of the hazards and risks associated with those operations; and c. to ensure that the PCBU has available for use, and uses, appropriate resources and processes to eliminate or minimise risks to health and safety from work carried out as

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and roles of directors in governance of Health and Safety.

d. t o e n s u r e t h a t t h e PCBU has appropriate processes for receiving and considering information regarding incidents, hazards, and risks and for responding in a timely way to that information; and

2. Sections 36 to 43 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 set out the specific requirements for PCBU’s in relation to the safety in design, manufacture and use of equipment and substances in the workplace.

e. to ensure that the PCBU has, and implements, processes for complying with any duty or obligation of the PCBU under this Act; and f. to verify the provision and use of the resources and processes referred to in paragraphs (c) to (e).

T h e “ G o o d Governance Practices Guideline for Managing Health and Safety Risks” was developed by the Institute of Directors in New Zealand (IoD) and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and released in May 2013 and this guideline sets out information on the essential principles

3. One of the major changes is the requirement to advise the Worksafe of any notifiable event as soon as possible after becoming aware of the event.

Section 56 of the Act sets out the requirements for notification as follows: 1. A PCBU must, as soon as possible after becoming aware that a notifiable event arising out of the conduct of the business or undertaking has occurred, ensure that the regulator is notified of the event.

telephone or in writing (including by email, or other electronic means); and b. must be given by the fastest possible means in the circumstances.

3. F o r t h e p u r p o s e s of subsection (2), a person giving notice by telephone must— a. give the details of the incident requested by the regulator; and b.if required by the regulator, give a written notice of the incident within 48 hours of being informed of the requirement.

4. Notice given in writing under subsection (2) or (3) must be in a form, or contain the details, approved by the regulator.

Section 25 of the Act sets out the definition of a notifiable event as follows:

2. A notification under subsection (1)—

a notifiable event means any of the following events that arise from work:

a. may be given by

a. the death of a person; or

Health & Safety Reform Bill b. a notifiable injury or illness; or c. a notifiable incident.

Sections 23 and 24 set out the definitions for both a notifiable illness or injury (23) and a notifiable incident (24).

The notifiable incident category is a new requirement that covers a large range of incidents in relation to a workplace that expose a worker or any other person to a serious risk to that person’s health or safety arising from an immediate or imminent exposure to— a. an escape, a spillage, or a leakage of a substance; or b. an implosion, explosion, or fire; or c. an escape of gas or steam; or d. an escape of a pressurised substance; or e. an electric shock; or f. the fall or release from a height of any plant, substance, or thing; or g. the collapse, overturning, failure, or malfunction

of, or damage to, any plant that is required to be authorised for use in accordance with regulations; or

regulator under section 56 and the records kept must contain the particulars prescribed by regulations (if any).

h. the collapse or partial These requirements collapse of a structure; or around notifiable events i. the collapse or failure are a major change from of an excavation or any the requirements under shoring supporting an the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 excavation; or and will require setting up j. the inrush of water, mud, of systems to ensure the or gas in workings in an reporting, recording and underground excavation storage of the details for or tunnel; or all notifiable events. k. t h e i n t e r r u p t i o n o f There are also new the main system requirements regarding of ventilation in an Wo r k e r E n g a g e m e n t , underground excavation Participation and or tunnel; or Representation but these l. a collision between 2 have been covered in a last vessels, a vessel capsize, issue of this magazine. or the inrush of water into The above issues are a vessel; or not a complete list of all m. any other incident changes to the legislation declared by regulations for Workplace Health and to be a notifiable incident Safety, but only some of for the purposes of this the major changes that section.

I believe will require Section 57 requires a employers to do further PCBU to keep a record of work to bring their Safety each notifiable event for Management Systems up at least 5 years from the to compliance with the new date on which notice of legislation. the event is given to the

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Health & Safety Reform Bill

The Consequences of the Health and Safety Reforms Introduction The Health and Safety Reform Bill has passed and the new law, the Health and Safety at Work Act, will come into force 4 April 2016. It marks the biggest change in Health and Safety law since the 1992 Health and Safety in Employment Act, and is part of “Working Safer: a blueprint for health and safety at work”, which is aimed at reducing New Zealand’s workplace injury and death toll by 25 per cent by 2020.

If you have exemplary Health and Safety policies and practices already in place, then it is likely you are in a good position to stay compliant when the law changes. However if your policies and procedures are out of date, then it is important that you seek the appropriate advice to rectify this in advance of the new regime

Who will be responsible for workplace Health and Safety?

The onus has transferred to the person carrying out the business. A new legal concept has been coined to establish responsibility called a Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking

on average each year, across all New Zealand workplaces 75 people die on the job, 1 in 10 is harmed, and an estimated 600 to 900 die from work-related diseases.

Considered in isolation these statistics are shocking. The new measures are aimed at countering this failing. If you require any assistance developing or implementing your own health and safety policies, or would like to know your rights and obligations under the new legislative framework, please contact GTODD LAW.

(PCBU).

It will usually be a business entity, such as a company, rather than an individual. In the case of an entity carrying out business the definition of PCBU does not extend to cover workers, officers, home workers or volunteer associations. The PCBU will have the primary duty under the new law to ensure the health and safety of its workers and others affected by the work it carries out. However, this does not mean that individuals within the PCBU do not have a duty.

Specific duties

Officers duty to exercise due diligence to ensure PCBU protects workers as far as ‘reasonably practicable’.

This includes having an up-to-date knowledge of health and safety matters, and an understanding of business risks and hazards of the PCBU. It also requires Officers to ensure PCBU has appropriate resources available, and processes to eliminate or minimise risks.

Wo r k e r s w h o a r e essentially anyone who works for a PCBU have a duty of reasonable care. This duty is similar to the duty of a worker under past legislation.

Concurrent duty to consult upon all duty holders

GTODD LAW team requiring consultation in relation to the same matter. This creates joint responsibility for workplace Health and Safety.

Definition of ‘Officers’ The definition of ‘Officers’ under the Act is tailored to mean any person occupying a position in relation to the business or undertaking that allows the person to exercise significant influence over the management of the business or undertaking (for example, a chief executive, a director in a Company, partner in a partnership). Certain officers are exempt from prosecution

if they fail in their due diligence duty (for example elected members of local authorities and volunteers).

Increased penalties A duty holder, without reasonable excuse, engages in conduct that exposes a person to a risk of death or serious injury or illness and is reckless about that risk is liable to heavy financial penalties or imprisonment not exceeding 5 years.

Conclusion New Zealand has a poor record of workplace Health and Safety. WorkSafe New Zealand figures show that

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Understanding GST

Struggle to understand GST? in the building industry: labour-only contractors and independent contractors.

What is GST? Goods and services tax (GST) is a tax on most goods and services in New Zealand, most imported goods, and certain imported services. GST is added to the price of taxable goods and services at a rate of 15%.

Goods include all types of personal and real property, except money. Services cover everything other than goods or money, eg TV repairs, doctor’s services and gardening services.

Contractors may have to register for GST: you’ll have to register for GST if you expect your turnover (income before expenses are deducted) to be more than $60,000 over the next 12 months. GST registration is voluntary if you expect turnover to be $60,000 or less.

If you are required to file for GST; doing it online with myIR can make life a whole lot easier.

Filing online through myIR Yo u r G S T r e t u r n is ready and waiting for you online. Just go to the Inland Revenue website and register for myIR secure online services today and start doing GST the smarter, easier and tidier way.

• all of your GST returns are in one easy-to-access place • you’ll receive immediate confirmation once your GST is filed, so you know we’ve received it • it’s secure and simple – more than 200,000 businesses can’t be wrong!

• you can still print a copy for your own records.

Does someone else file for you?

As <the company director/a partner/the trustee/the business owner> you can login to myIR, use the ‘Manage account access’ function (under ‘Tools’ on the right hand side), and follow

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the instructions to create a new user and delegate access to a person of your choice.

But first you need to get a myIR account. Visit ird. govt.nz and register today.

The most important part is entering your tax code.

Work through the flowchart on page 2 of the IR 330 to choose the correct one. Give the completed IR 330 to your

employer.

Contractors Unlike employees, contractors run their own business. There are two types

Labour-only contractors If your employer provides the materials for the job, you’re a labour-only contractor. Your employer will give you a tax code declaration (IR 330) form.

You need to complete it and give it back to your employer straightaway.

Enter a tax code of “WT”

(withholding tax) and tax will be deducted from your scheduler payments at a flat rate.

Independent contractors If you provide the materials for the job, control the work you do and how you do it, you’re an independent contractor.

You’re responsible for meeting your own tax obligations, i.e. you don’t need to complete a tax code declaration (IR 330). No tax will be deducted from the income you earn, but, at the end of the tax year, you need to file an income tax return.

If you are required to register for GST, go to ird. govt.nz/gst-online now, so you’re all set up before the next filing due date.

First you need to know, are you are an employee or a contractor? It’s important to get it right, because the tax rules are different for each type of worker.

So what’s my employment status and how does that affect me?

In most cases, you won’t have any trouble working out your employment status. If you have a “boss” who decides when, where, and how you do your work, you’re probably an employee. But if you control the work you do (when, where, how), you’re probably a contractor.

Employees Your employer will give you a tax code declaration (IR 330) form to fill out as soon as you start work.

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Canterbury Frames & Trusses

Experience, expertise Canterbury Frames and Trusses’ forte Timber is the natural choice when it comes to structural building.

It is strong, flexible and the best source of renewable ecofriendly building material available.

One of the most specialised companies in the production of structural building components is Canterbury Frames and Trusses.

The landscape in Canterbury has changed for people and the structures they use for dwellings and for business. Canterbury Frames and Trusses has taken advantage of the changes that are going on.

It was formed following the major quakes, in 2011

and set up in Rolleston, just a few minutes down the main south road from Christchurch.

Handy to the main source of the company’s work in Christchurch, keeping costs of transporting its products to a minimum, it is also close to its major

suppliers of timber from which it produces frames and trusses. The factory was an early settler in Rolleston, at 30 Westland Place in the Izone Business Park.

The company has been operating four years under the experienced leadership of owner Mark Melbourne.

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He brings 30 years of experience in the business, with the previous seven years as an independent consultant to frame and truss plants, builders and architects across the country. This wealth of knowledge allows Mark to assist clients with many

a n d Tr u s s e s i s v e r y much based on Mark’s extensive experience and knowledge, which includes a deep understanding of the building code. Liz Melbourne, who does the company’s account books – not his forte, she says – which is a kind of tongue

The company has grown from opening in 2011 with just one fabricator to the team of 10 staff today.

They are skilful fabricators who take pride in the work, sharing the aims of Mark and Liz to exceed customer expectations.

aspects of planning and design and everyone - the client, the builder, the architects - deal with Mark directly as the owner of the company. He makes sure people get to know him and know he is there to help.

Mark started out in the industry working for Pryda and Canterbury Frames and Trusses uses its cutting edge software in its processes, providing all the tools they need to manage jobs from quote through to detailing, to production and delivery.

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and groove relationship in the company’s activities.

The 1000 square metre factory at Rolleston employs a staff of six on the computerised saws which are programmed to cut to specifications from the office. The size of the factory allows the cut-and-shaped frames and trusses to be laid out and joined in preparation for their journey to clients – individual housing projects, developers, commercial buildings – in Christchurch and throughout Canterbury.

Mark says the company normally handles three, or four housing jobs a week. He says that within the industry, Canterbury Frames and Trusses is just a small player, but a significant one because of its experience and record and the relationships Mark builds up with clients.

There is another important point Mark is keen to make: “They know they are dealing with the manager, the owner, not one of the boys down the line”.

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“And we pride ourselves about a good quality job; it’s not about the volume of work, we like to give them a good service. We are big on personal relationships with our customers and helping them out in more ways than the average frame-and-truss company would.”

Canterbury Frames and Trusses works predominantly with pinus radiata – 75 per cent of the company’s frames. Mitchell Brothers of Darfield supply

some of the highest quality timber available, and the company have built up a strong relationship with them. Providing the SG8 graded timber which is favour by CFT over SG6. It also builds from laminated framing such as North Island supplied J-Frame, which stays straight and reduces onsite building time.

Canterbury Frames and Trusses, with its Rolleston location handy to the main market, has become very

much a community-based operation, with the couple living in Rolleston, as do eight of the staff of 10.

The company prefabricates frames and trusses for everything from cottages, to schools there is a wide variation in the type, style and size of framing, in particular.

Today, Canterbury F r a m e s a n d Tr u s s e s continues to grow solid partnerships with quality home builders in Canterbury.

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Affordable Concrete & Paving

Pride and passion, as well as experience are laid down when Affordable Concrete and Paving complete every project.

For Affordable Concrete and Paving, a family owned and operated company, what they do is a mission. The born-and-bred Cantabrian, company proprietor Cory Grant and the team are dedicated to what they can achieve in the restoration of Christchurch and the province.

The range of the concrete and paving work Affordable Concrete and Paving does is extensive, starting with the demolition of existing surfaces. From there it moves to adding the drainage, excavation and base preparation, site scrapes, and building car parks.

But there is more, because it does civil work, as well as residential, including fencing, retaining and block walls, decks and timber

structures, also landscaping.

As well, there are driveways, patios and pathways, whether in concrete, paving, asphalt, or chips. It will also lay vehicle crossings, and remove and rebuild existing concrete floors.

Cory Grant’s 30 years’ experience, combined with his passion, ensures the high standard of the completed contracts, both residential and commercial. Affordable Concrete and Paving works

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services it provides in this area includes demolition and excavation, concrete crack repair, as well as the laying of concrete and asphalt paving, drainage, brick and block laying, also exterior plastering and painting.

Indeed, there seems no limit to the possibilities of what the company can provide.

Through it all, Cory Grant wants to lead the industry with integrity, providing outstanding value, employee development and the best client relationships.

with some of Christchurch’s largest constructing firms, builders and also architects.

In the residential field the company happily accepts enquiries about new concrete, or paving projects and also about repair work, and resurfacing. Without obligation, it will provide a pricing service, quoting on site, or from plans.

Pointing to the number of Affordable Concrete and Paving’s completed jobs provides impressive proof of its vast experience. Last year it finished 1000 (!) residential concrete jobs.

That’s testimony to its total understanding of the process.

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“Out of scope” repairs following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes are a particular pride for Cory and the team.

It has also done insurance company repairs, providing a wide range of remedial work.

Taking a ‘small steps’ approach to a big problem, Cory says it is committed to the earthquake repair work “one slab at a time”. With so much of this work needed in Christchurch, citizens who have been stressed

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Canterbury Heavy Haulage

Heavy Haulage the Canterbury way Haulage is well placed and has the capacity – including 14 trucks, half of them for logging, also a B train curtainsider and bottom dumper and crane truck.– to handle almost any kind of load put up for moving, including a recently increased number of water tanks and containers.

There is no limit to the range of Canterbury Heavy Haulage, with North island trips not by any means out of the question.

Used to carting heavy loads from its chosen base in Rangiora, the size of these guarantees that Canterbury Heavy Haulage lives up to its title.

Owned for six years by top trucky Kevin Nortman, the Rangiorabased Canterbury Heavy Haulage does a wide range of carting, all of it heavy.

The Canterbury company is ideally situated in the middle of a vast hinterland of hauling potential, all the way from Christchurch city to the mountains, including all the farm and forestry land in between.

One aspect of the work which is always on tap is the supply of logs to be hauled from forest to the Port of Lyttelton, or to depots such as McVicars, or Sutherlands.

It is a case of whatever it takes, wherever the need is, and Kevin has a reputation for being able to organise it, to fit any job in at a moment’s

notice.

That is the key to Canterbury Heavy Haulage’s success – getting the job done, whether a highly organised, planned commitment, long on the books, or an unexpected, last minute one, needing some instant moving.

But this heavy haulage company does not confine its activities to the logging industry. The nature of its community means there is a wide range of possibilities, from the logs produced, to the heavy machinery which produces them.

While running a successful business, Kevin Nortman is a truck driver from way back, with a fine reputation. It is built on his ability in the hard grind of day-to-day driving and also his competitive spirit, demonstrated by his taking out the National Driver of the Year award several times.

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There are also many farms in the region which will, from time to time, need farm equipment moved to or from the property.

Once considered a rural country company with its headquarters in Rangiora, the relocation of many Christchurch citizens into town following the 2011 quake, means the company has become very much an integral part of the more urban landscape.

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Spiral Drillers

Seismic strengthening of existing buildings just got easier Auckland company, Spiral Drillers is excited about a new micro-piling rig it has acquired, saying it will change the drilling scene, being able to drill in tiny areas and tighter places, outdoing any other available drilling machine.

It’s only 1.4 metres wide on its tracks and 2.4 metres tall, can drill up to 900 millimetres diameter holes, and go down to depths of 15 metres. That’s a far better performance than any other equipment available in New Zealand, says Spiral Drillers Limited’s business development manager, Ben Faber.

He says the new TC7 micro piling rig is ideally suited to seismic strengthening and upgrading work to bring buildings up to the new standards.

He says a recent project the company completed is a good example of the capabilities of the machine.

Spiral Drillers was called in to drill some additional 750mm piles down to 14m in the

basement of a two-storey building being upgraded and having two levels added.

The company completed the job with a low head height of just 3.2m, the micropiling rig’s compact size and weight of seven tonnes making the job possible.

The micro-rig is capable of handling any situation, from residential to high-rise buildings, meaning it has few limits, with a wide range of possibilities.

He says the micro-rig can be used anywhere and it will drill as quickly as anything else available.

“The fact that it can fit into a basement is what it’s all about. We want building owners to go ‘this is the problem I’ve got; these guys might be able to help.”

He believes it is ideally

suited to New Zealand conditions, where sites are becoming more confined The TC7 is designed for such spaces and also for work on cliff edges and palisade walls.

The TC7 is controlled remotely, with the operator standing alongside it,

meaning safer operation with greater location accuracy.

Ben says he is expecting it to be used most often in the North Island, but would readily send it to the South Island if there were suitable jobs for it there.

When confronted with out-of-the-ordinary on-

site obstacles the company typically responds by designing and constructing its own specialised equipment. For example, in a recent project the company needed to construct a 600mm diameter pile down 5.3m for a power pole in the middle of the bush. Spiral Drillers fabricated its own portable

rig to complete the job.

The rig was dismantled, helicoptered to the site in sections, and then reassembled before drilling before drilling could start. Once drilling was completed, reinforcing steel and concrete was flown in to create the pile and then the machine was disassembled

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Spiral Drillers is in the ownership of Andrew Hannah and Jon Faber.

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New Gondola Proposed for Queenstown A world-class Queenstown gondola proposal has been announced today (Thursday November 19) by investment and development company Porter Group Ltd (PGL). The gondola is planned to link Queenstown’s Remarkables Park to The Remarkables alpine recreation area.

Operating in all four seasons, the proposed $50m, 9.8km gondola will operate from a Gondola Events Plaza adjacent to Remarkables Park Town Centre and link to NZSki’s new base building at The Remarkables.

The project is described as a “significant” investment in regional and national tourism infrastructure.

Porter Group chairman and former Queenstown Chamber of Commerce president Alastair Porter said tourism was “immensely important” for New Zealand, and recognized that Queenstown played a key role in attracting tourists to the country.

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Zealand to continue to invest in major tourist infrastructure to keep refreshing and enhancing our international appeal,” he said.

The proposed gondola will be an exhilarating ride combining spectacular scenery including the Shotover and Kawarau rivers, a high country station, steep alpine terrain, panoramic vistas out to the Southern Alps and the magic of the famous Remarkables.

The gondola is based on a design by Leitner Poma, one of the world’s most experienced gondola and chairlift companies.

It will provide a way for tourists to enjoy Queenstown’s extraordinary setting while at the same time

preserving the environment.

This includes the gondola using ‘recessive’ colours and being carefully sited for minimal impact.

The design accesses The Remarkables recreation area, without having to cross the iconic western face of The Remarkables. It achieves this by following a route across Remarkables Park and the Kawarau River through Queenstown Park Station and the Rastus Burn Valley before arriving at NZSki’s new base facility building.

Mr Porter said Queenstown and New Zealand tourism had benefitted “enormously” from massive investments made by the Davies’ family in Queenstown’s alpine sports

facilities, culminating in the new 6-seater Curvey Basin chairlift at The Remarkables and its stunning new base building.

He said the gondola would also further enhance Queenstown’s appeal as an international four-season destination by enabling sightseers, hikers, climbers, mountain bikers and wedding couples or conference and incentive groups looking for an unforgettable venue to visit The Remarkables in spring, summer and autumn.

“The gondola will also integrate well with the proposed Convention Centre at Remarkables Park Town Centre,” said Mr Porter.

“The two facilities will front onto a Gondola Events

Plaza, as will adjacent future hotels. The gondola plaza will connect to the Remarkables Park Town Centre’s retail outlets, cafés, bars and restaurants, all capable of servicing large volumes of tourists and locals.”

Mr Porter said that determining the gondola location and building had delayed until now development of a Queenstown Convention Centre at Remarkables Park Town Centre.

“Importantly the Convention Centre and the new Remarkables mountain facilities building can work together to host conferences,” he said.

“The ‘wow’ factor of being able to leverage Q u e e n s t o w n ’s w o r l d renowned scenic environment via a gondola will make Queenstown a highly sought-after international conferencing destination.”

Mr Porter said the appeal of the gondola would also give past visitors’ further reason to return.

Leading New Zealand tourism consultant Stephen Hamilton said he was “very supportive” of the Porter Group’s vision to connect hotels and urban areas of Queenstown to The Remarkables.

“In winter the proposed gondola will give skiers, boarders and sightseers easy access to NZSki’s

facilities. It will further boost Queenstown’s worldclass visitor experience, and has the potential to deliver immeasurable economic benefits to the resort town’s many businesses,” he said.

Mr Porter said there was a widely-recognised need for Queenstown to develop more hotels to cope with visitor growth, and said the gondola and Convention Centre would act as “significant catalysts” for new hotels and retail in the wider region and at Remarkables Park, Queenstown’s largest zoned area for high-rise hotel and retail expansion.

Work on the gondola project has been ongoing for many years. Submissions have been lodged with the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) for the gondola project, and a resource consent application will be lodged in early 2016.

Mr Porter said a timeline showed it could be built and operating within three years subject to further consultation and the resource consent process.

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IMB Construction

IMB Construction’s history of service to Nelson undertake a job at Westland High School IMB Construction, a registered master builder for the last 40 years, has built a reputation for working at the highest level. Richard says it aims to maintain that, ensuring it continues to provide the best service to clients. A sure sign of the company’s commitment to quality and its status is the number of repeat contracts, with previous clients coming back for upgrade, and new builds.

Another indicator of its commitment to quality is IMB Construction’s preference to work with registered professional architects and architectural draftsmen, providing an assurance that work, from the design stage up, will be of the highest quality.

Richard says the push for quality is communicated to employees, including the apprentices the company continues to support in its commitment to the master builders’ ethos, and also to the clients who are concerned about the standard of their homes, or commercial buildings. This provides peace of mind while the contract is being fulfilled and satisfaction, once the workmanship of the end product can be clearly seen.

IMB Construction has a close working relationship with a wide range of subcontractor’s right across the region, and also has the

With a history of 45 years working in the Nelson region, IMB Construction has developed from a company which originally concentrated on residential projects to increasingly taking on commercial, industrial and educational projects.

While continuing to build two or three homes each year, working with registered architects and architectural draughtsmen, the commercial work has become dominant, with everything from regular education board work to the recently completed Nelson Electricity sub-station.

Since taking over from the company’s originator, Ian McCully, partners Richard Cole – director and project manager – and Brian Mazure – co-director, and a registered quantity surveyor - have not just concentrated the company’s work in the wider Nelson region, but have also undertaken work in Marlborough and on the West Coast.

Some of the projects IMB Construction have completed in the Nelson region include a refurbishment of the Nelson District Courthouse, Nelson College for Girls Gymnasium and new

boarding hostel, the Plant and Food Research Fin Fish facility, Cawthron Institutes Aquaculture Centre , and Wakatu House.

In the Tasman district it has completed the Tasman District Council learn-toswim complex at Richmond and subsequently a new fitness centre in the same complex. The diversity of IMB Construction’s range of work is also displayed in Marlborough and on the West Coast, where projects have been completed in Murchison and the Stockton Mine. Early next year, the company will be represented in Hokitika, where it will

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IMB Construction has a sizeable staff roll of more

than 40, of whom a number having been there for over 20 years. IMB Construction also has five apprentices employed at any one time,

all in various stages of their apprenticeships.

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Crowne Plaza Auckland recognized as New Zealand’s leading business hotel for second year Crowne Plaza Auckland has been voted New Zealand’s leading business hotel for the second year in a row.

T h e Wo r l d T r a v e l Awards, announced in Hong Kong last night (Thursday October 29) are voted for by travel and tourism professionals worldwide.

The accolade recognises the commitment to excellence which the hotel and its management team have demonstrated in the last twelve months, and continued use of the gold winner’s shield demonstrates the property’s continuing endeavours to improve products and services.

The award was presented at a prestigious red-carpet Asia & Australasia Gala Ceremony 2015 before an invited audience of the B1504

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industry’s leading lights and international media, where the Bangkok area director of sales and marketing accepted the award on the hotel’s behalf.

Crowne Plaza Auckland was up against some of the biggest hotel names in New Zealand in its category and

Franck Hesse, IHG’s New Zealand area director of sales and marketing, said they were “especially thrilled” to win it two years in a row.

“The hotel really does work extremely hard to continually refine its offering to ensure that facilities are world-leading and the perfect

place for professionals to stay, recharge and conduct business.

“We never rest on our laurels but continue to offer the business traveler access to unrivalled technology and ensure they’re connected and productive at all times.

“Our location in the heart

of the business district is second to none, we have truly world-class facilities, an exceptional level of service and an unrivalled range of bespoke offerings for our business guests.

“I can’t speak highly enough of our management team for the hard work and behind-the-scenes effort that goes into maintaining and improving the very highest business standards each and every day.

“The fact that this is an award voted on by travel and tourism professionals with experience of hotels around the world validates our confidence in our exceptional level of service and the business relationships we’ve built up over the years.

“We pride ourselves on listening to our business travelers and taking their feedback on board so we’ve always evolving.”

Business innovations and new developments at

the property this year have included the introduction of Deluxe Rooms in February.

These rooms are fitted out with Bluetooth radio and speakers, Smart TV’s, capsule coffee makers, and USB charging points next to the beds, acting as universal charging points for the business travelers’ smart device.

Bathrooms boast locallysourced luxury amenities, and each room also features upgraded linen and duvets.

Crowne Plaza Auckland also introduced the PressReader app in the hotel, offering international travelers a complimentary solution to accessing upto-the-minute news from their home countries on their smart devices.

“We’re committed to continuing to evolve, offering our business travelers the latest relevant solutions for a seamless and successful stay in the future,” said Mr Hesse.

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Timber Frames & Trusses and solid wood products used for structural and non-structural purposes, for external or internal uses and for appearance or nonappearance nishes.

Although Juken's range of products is wide and varied, they are not limited to off-the-shelf solutions. If a customer cannot nd what they are looking for in their current range then Juken also offers custommade options to suit their exact needs. Such requests t comfortably with the Juken philosophy and because Juken own the process from start to nish they can always try to meet their customers' needs no matter what they may be.

One the company's agship product is J-Frame which is a structural laminated veneer lumber gauged framing timber made from 100% renewable radiata pine plantation forest. Because it is a reliable straight and durable product, J-Frame can be used in a wide range of applications including residential and commercial framing and truss systems.

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Growing its own plantations enables Juken New Zealand Ltd to produce top quality products with control over every aspect of the process, proper forest management is the key to producing the right trees for making the right products. They take pride in the way they manage and take care of their forests from land preparation, seed selection and planting to disease and pest control, thinning, pruning, and harvesting. It's a deliberate, methodical and continuous process to ensure that the product requirements of customers are met.

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Timber Frames & Trusses

Timber frames and trusses preferred in construction Timber frames and trusses have been used in the building of structures for thousands of years, firstly because it was immediately available in the forests and woods, on the plains, in natural plantations and later in manmade ones, even floating down the rivers to the sea.

Recovery of timber from each of those locations would have varied considerably in the ease of accessibility, with forests and woods the most difficult, no doubt yielding their retrieval reluctantly, as people laboured with adze and axe and whatever other tool was invented for the purpose. Harvesting from the plains would have been easier and rescuing it from river and sea a cinch, by comparison!

It was as if Nature had provided wood, to be harvested as timber, especially for humans. Even creatures such as beavers have been able to make hay - or abodes and other useful structures, such as dams with the timbers available to them. No other building material is so easily obtained, or needs such little energy output to be utilised.

Proponents of the use of timber ahead of all other materials make their cases strongly, starting with the statement that it is the most renewable of all building materials. Added to that, in the light of this century’s climate change prognosis that – predictions, based on scientific records, that the planet is heating up – roughsawn timber is said to absorb, rather than emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

No other produced material is able to match its low level of carbon emission.

So, to humans’ greatest use of timber, in building houses. Wooden frames and

trusses in houses, combined with sufficient insulation are recommended over all other materials by their advocates, because of their strength, combined with their flexibility. Additionally,

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the coverings of dwellings, timber cladding introduces its natural thermal insulation to the structure, retaining the heat it has absorbed in the daytime, releasing it in the evening. This helps support

and reduce the energy needs required to keep a home running. It is estimated to require 15 per cent of that energy to heating and cooling alone.

When it comes to the process of erecting timberframe buildings, many builders contend that it is superior in time taken, easier to construct, more flexible in its design capabilities, and allows modification more readily. Cladding is also more easily attached than with other materials.

While moisture is a common enemy for building materials, with timber this is easily overcome with appropriate design preventing its entry, or allowing it to dry out or drain away.

One of the features timber cladding provides is an attractive appearance to the exteriors of homes. In some cases, insulated wood panels – in any case timber has a natural insulating capacity – are used on the outside, while natural timber also provides an aesthetic quality,

exuding a feeling of strength, providing an atmosphere of being comfortable and safe.

Another characteristic making wood even more comfortable as a dwelling material is that its nonconductive properties.

Equally, in the event of fire, wood does not weaken under heat stress and will not burn until the temperature reaches 250 degrees centigrade, then develops a natural protective insulation char layer.

No matter what type of material is used to build homes and other structures they must comply with the Building Code and that means they must provide a minimum life of 50 years. This is, in normal circumstances no problem for timbers, for when it is correctly treated and preserved it should last at least a century.

The versatility of timber in building construction, and the innate strength within the material, as well as its resistance to traumatic events such as earthquakes, make it a continuing front runner in the building industry.

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This void has been successfully lled by Builders & Contractors. Distribution is by way of the Distribution various outlets PlaceMakers, Mitre 10, Builders NATIONWIDE: mailed Hardware, I.T.M., Carters, Site Safe Members, directly to a carefully Home Ideas Centre, Timber Companies, Hire maintained list of Companies, together with our database direct decision-makers and mail drop to Architects, Draughting subscribers for 22 Professionals, Consulting Engineers, Building years.

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Timber Frames & Trusses

NelsonPine LVL8 H1.2 General Framing through the glue lines meaning that it is entirely protected against insect and fungal decay and is an acceptable solution as per amendment 8 B2/AS1 of the NZ Building Code and will not leach from the timber when wet. It can also be engineered into applications such as joists and lintels taking full account of its enhanced structural properties by using Nelson Pine Design software and proprietary Frame and truss software such as supplied by Mitek and Pryda.

The durability and ef cacy of NelsonPine LVL (laminated veneer lumber) has been enhanced by an innovative glue line treatment, called Azotek H1.2.

Developed by Zelam in conjunction with Nelson Pine Industries Ltd, this new generation of timber treatments is more environmentally friendly than traditional treatments, with no smell, colour, or heavy metals which could pollute the environment or corrode metal fasteners.

Andy Van Houtte, Nelson Pine Industries' Australasian sales engineer says another of the unique things about Azotek is that it is incorporated into the manufacturing process rather than being applied to the LVL product post manufacture.

Since it was released to the market two years ago there has been a “very good uptake” of Azotek treated NelsonPine LVL which is manufactured from timber sourced in 100 percent renewable plantations.

“This provides full penetration protection, gives the product far greater stability, and produces a tighter tolerance, which is very important in frame and truss fabrication processes.”

“The strength and durability of the product has made it particularly popular in the South Island where there issues with snow loads and seismic activity.”

Timber treatments have had a bad rap in the past, but this one “ticks all the boxes”, particularly given it is a more natural product, that is benign to humans, he says.

He says the straighter frames produced in LVL make it a high performance alternative to solid timber, increasing exibility for architects and designers of residential homes.

“LVL produces very straight walls that assist with the construction process and provide an opportunity for architects to include special features or high-spec nishes in the homes.”

NelsonPine LVL8 H1.2 General Framing is suitable to be substituted in place of No.1 Framing, SG6 and SG8 sawn timber as per NZS3604 (clause 2.3.9). LVL8 is available in 90x45, 140x45 as well as 190x45, 240x45 and 290x45 wide boards. NelsonPine LVL8 H1.2 is produced in continuous long lengths up to 7.2m that are dimensionally stable, straight and true. The beauty about our framing is that it is organically treated to H1.2

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• Gives straighter and stronger frames and trusses.

• Substitutable in place of SG8 timber.

• 100% renewable plantation forestry.

• Ideal for high snow loads.

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How to protect your gear on the job People seem to underestimate just how quick and opportunistic thieves are. You can turn your back for a moment and that’s enough time for them to smash your vehicle window and take whatever you have left in plain view.

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That tool belt, wallet or spare change you’ve left sitting in your car is like an open invitation for a thief to smash your window and take it. Thieves also steal from building sites as these can be easy targets especially when the site is not secure.

The inconvenience to you to report it to Police, make an insurance claim and eventually replace the item just isn’t worth the risk.

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• Lock your vehicle.

Consider installing an alarm.

• Take all valuables with you. If you must leave them in the vehicle, lock them in the boot out of sight.

• Park in well lit areas.

• Don’t leave keys in the ignition.

• If possible, considering having your rear windows tinted.

• Guard your keys. Don’t have personal details on your keys (such as your name, phone number or address).

• Don’t leave your tools in your vehicle when it’s being serviced by a mechanic.

• Mark valuable items or register their serial numbers at: www.snap. org.nz And here are some tips for keeping your tools safe on the building site: • Always lock up if you can. If the site has doors and windows, burglars and thieves often enter through unlocked doors and windows or they take advantage of weak locks.

• If the site is only partially built and has yet to have walls, doors and windows,

then install good quality locks on a lockable shed or container and store in there.

• Lock away tools at all times because burglars could use un-secured tools to break in to other parts of building sites or work vehicles.

• You may want to consider installing temporary security fencing.

• Temporary CCTV and sensor lights are an excellent security device too because they light up automatically if somebody moves nearby.

And finally:

Report any suspicious behaviour near building sites. For further information visit, our website: www.police.govt.nz for more information

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RSMA Road Safety Manufacturers Associaton

Who or what is the Road Safety Manufacturers Association ?

The Road Safety Manufacturers Association (RSMA) was founded in 1976 (as NZ Traffic Control and Road Safety Equipment Manufacturers Assn) to provide the roading and transportation industry in New Zealand with advice and service regarding road safety programs and the manufacture, provision and implementation of traffic control and road safety systems.

Specifically, the RSMA is committed to producing and supplying a range products and services for the New Zealand roading environment which are: • In accordance with the relevant New Zealand Standards and NZTA Specifications.

• Are of top quality to ensure satisfactory service life.

• Are appropriately priced.

The RSMA is a nonprofit, non-political service organisation whose goal is to actively encourage the implementation of road safety initiatives of the Minister of Transport, NZ Transport Agency the Police and other road safety organisations and

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to provide the appropriate professional support.

Membership of the RSMA is made up of a wide industry group covering component manufacturers and suppliers, sign manufacturers, installers, contractors and professional services and engineering consultants all of whom are required to have ISO 9001:2008 Quality Assurance Registration.

Bound by a Constitution and Code of Ethics each member of the Association has acknowledged the need to provide protection to the customer by ensuring that minimum standards are not only adhered to but also

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strictly enforced.

Purchasers, users and owners of products purchased from members of the RSMA have better assurance of product performance, back up and service and can be assured that products will meet the required standards.

In partnership with Transit/NZTA, the RSMA developed and published the “Standard for the Manufacture and Maintenance of Traffic Signs, Posts and Fittings” in 1995. This document was designed to set minimum requirements for durability, strength and performance of goods and services for use by manufacturers and suppliers of traffic signs and their support systems.

The standard became the minimum specification for use by Transit NZ and other roading authorities in all contracts/tenders/ specifications for Transit NZ funded sign and support systems.

With the release by Transit NZ, in March 2003, of the “Performance Based Specification for Traffic Signs - TNZ P/24:2003” the joint RSMA/Transit standard has been revised.

The new standard titled the “RSMA COMPLIANCE STANDARD FOR TRAFFIC SIGNS”, dated March 2008, is the only NZTA endorsed Compliance Standard to Specification P/24:2008.

Summary The RSMA has been developed as a body to promote and maintain codes and standards of practice for manufacturers, suppliers and installers of road signage and other road safety related products.

With the adoption of standards of manufacture, the use of appropriate materials and the acknowledgment of a value for money objective, purchasers and owners of road signage and safety products and road-users alike

will benefit for the following reasons.

• Maintenance of proper standards of manufacture, installation and performance.

• Reduced costs through

the adoption of long life products that meet the required specifications.

• Enhancement of safety standards for road users through the proper performance of all products and services.

RSMA Compliance Standard for Traffic Signs The RSMA Compliance Standard for Traffic Signs is the only New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) endorsed compliance document to NZTA P 24 Performance Based Specification for Traffic Signs.

The NZTA Specification is performance based and sets out the requirements for the design, manufacture, installation and maintenance of permanently installed traffic signs used on the State Highway in New Zealand. The document defines the minimum levels of performance with respect to Visibility, Durability, Strength and Safety.

The RSMA Compliance Standard specifies current industry practice and describes existing sign systems that have proved to have acceptable performance as a means of compliance to NZTA P 24. The Standard defines materials, designs and practices that are deemed to comply with the NZTA Performance Based Specification.

In addition the document provides a standard for the manufacture and installation of street name signs.

Go to www.rsma.org.nz to see the list of current Members

Be assured of quality, service and back up by purchasing from an RSMA Member.

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Traffic Safety

Highway Products International safety products economical Highway Products International is a company which has arisen out of the company T J Steel being bought by the steel merchandising company HJ Asmuss, leaving the highway products area available.

Fifteen years ago T J Steel began supplying CSP, owned by the Fletchers Group, with Highway guard rails. Now, Highway Products International, a company which has arisen out of the changes, imports amongst other traffic safety products, highway guard rail from Malaysia and highway cable from Thailand which it sells to CSP to distribute throughout the country.

When it comes to traffic safety, there are no exemptions for cost saving and a relatively new company in one area of the protection of travellers on our highways and byways has moved into a specialist area of safety and has made the move to cut costs, while not relinquishing safety requirements.

At the same time HPI has an established

business importing highway cable from Thailand for use along highways and exports it around the world.

Areas to which it exports include the Middle East, in particular, but Highway Products Internationalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s representative, Phil Burrows

says it will export to any region seeking its use.

CSP has offered a system of replacing guard rails running down the centre of highways and on the flanks, where appropriate, by the use of cables , while not new to New Zealand the Armourwire

System distributed by CSP is proving to be effective in reducing head on accidents.

Currently, the majority of central highway protection is by the use of metal W Beam, providing a guard rail which is erected between vehicles moving in opposite

directions. While effective, it is expensive to both install and replace.

The Armourwire System consists of four 19 millimetre cables specially manufactured and pretensioned at a predetermined height of between 500 and 600 mm off the ground, the cable is supported by precisely manufactured posts. In that way, vehicles are prevented from crossing the centre line, with the potential to cause accidents. The Armourwire System may also be installed on the roadside perimeters, preventing vehicles running off the road.

When a vehicle encroaches onto the cables the posts fold over under the pressure and the cable deflects the vehicle away from oncoming traffic.

After being struck it is a simple case of replacing the damaged posts and retensioning the system

Phil says it is being used more by TNZ because of the cost factor, and with the cable system gaining popularity as seen on the Tauranga Eastern Link and also the Waikato Expressway , Phil believes it will be seen more and more as both local and national authorities realise the savings.

HPI also sell a wide range of traffic safety products, including street sign poles in both aluminium and steel with associated sign supports and sockets, plastic roadside and pedestrian barriers, arrow boards and VMS trailers. They also hold the distribution rights in NZ for the DENT BREAKAWAY sign support system.

For all your Traffic Safety and Roadside Hardware call the Team at HPI. Visit our Website www.hp-intl.co.nz

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P&W Painters

P&W Painters - Wazza's team painted Dunedin's Forsyth Barr stadium all the big ones to the metaphorical brush strokes.

It seems somehow symbolic that a town which is noted for its pristine white Oamaru stone should produce 'the biggest little painting rm' around, which has tackled one of the biggest jobs imaginable for its size, Dunedin's Forsyth Barr covered stadium.

And done with pride and accuracy. But, then that's the nature of the boss Warren – Wazza to his painting mates and on his emails – Pitches, who has been in the painting game for 47 years, 40 of them with the company he runs, P and W Painters.

After the 1987 share market crash, he took over the company. Now, as sole d i r e c t o r, h e r u n s t h e

No job is too big, according to Warren; it is simply a matter of breaking it down into small bits.

business from Oamaru, although a large amount of t h e w o r k i s i n Christchurch, or Dunedin.

In the boom years, he spent endless brush stroking hours painting and decorating Queenstown, but now the work is elsewhere.

his work and his team the best.

“It was a real achievement for a little company. If I do nothing else in my life, that was my pinnacle, a real achievement. Every time I go to Highlanders' match in Dunedin I sit there are think 'how the hell did we manage this?” An example of breaking it down into small bits, that's what.

Every job is different and the big one for this little P and W Painters company was Dunedin's Forsyth Barr stadium; the little company that could beat

R e c e n t l y, t h e s m a l l painting company from Oamaru has been doing work that is a departure – painting a new building in its home town.

Contact: P and W Painters, Wazza mobile 0274 333 999 Email, wazza_pitch@xtra.co.nz

That means a weekly 4 a.m. drive from Oamaru to Christchurch, to sort out the troops for their jobs, and all the other organising required there, including health and safety matters, which he says consumes a huge amount of his time – up to a third.

So, why does he do it?

We l l , i t ' s t h e j o b satisfaction – it's an interesting trade – but one of the biggest factors is “the comradeship and the life-long friendships”.

And Warren speaks with pride of “the lads we've had on the job and some of those are now construction managers, or own their

own companies; we stuck with them and the relationships have gone on ever since.”

His time as a painter has covered from the introduction of rollers to airless spraying, the latter a system he likes because of the very good nish it provides, with very little overspray. Which is not to say that brushes and rollers are not still used in the right places.

Through it all there has been Arrow International.

He says Arrow has used P and W Painters for 35 years; he praises them for their loyalty and is thankful they have found

Dulux New Zealand are proud to support P&W Painters on all of their premium painting projects, including the Forsyth Barr Stadium.

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Local innovation celebrated as SolarBright score hat-trick at Champion Canterbury Awards There have been trials also in Hobart, Tasmania and the company is working towards trials in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States of America, Russia, Latvia and South Korea.

Innovation and number-eight-wire mentality, along with Kiwi ingenuity are what sets New Zealand’s inventive landscape apart from that of many other countries and Christchurch based firm Solar Bright is one company which fits the description.

Solar Bright, “specialising in innovative solutions in lighting” fits the description, according to its Business Development Manager, John Bayliss; with an electronics background, who should know. He’s from Manchester, England and sports a strong Mancunian accent. The company was formed by Pat and Nicola Martin 9 years ago and has focussed on off-grid solar lighting and on the roading sector where there is no reticulation.

He says: “It’s a bit of a legend this Kiwi ingenuity, so I was quite shocked to find it’s a real thing; from the outside it seems overplayed, but it isn’t.”

He says Pat Martin “is by nature innovative and is the kind of guy who is looking at real world problems and how to solve them.”

The company has also just installed the first phase of an off-grid solar street lighting project in Kiribati – believed to be the largest such installation in the Pacific region. Company installers are due to return to the islands in January to complete the installation, done with the assistance of the World Bank.

The outcome of the innovation was rewarded in the Canterbury Business awards this year, when Solar Bright made a clean sweep, winning awards as Champion Producer/ Manufacturer, Champion Innovator and Supreme Canterbury Business Champion.

Leading the Solar Bright champion products is a new LED lighting system, SOLAS, with Pat Martin going back to the basics to enhance lighting output. John says the revolutionary system incorporates all the benefits of LED lighting - energy and cost savings - while achieving greater

brightness than fluorescent tubes.

In spite of the name Solar Bright – and in keeping with the Innovation ethos – it also has another

product, Pateye, which has been on trial by NZTA (the New Zealand Transport Authority) in Dunedin for nearly three years. Pateye is a system of warning flashing blue light road

studs, which detect and warn of the likelihood of ice on the roads. “it only goes off when there’s a massive probability of ice on the roads; it’s not a fancy thermometer.”

John says Solar Bright is a small company with big ambitions, aiming for global markets for its products. As with all small companies, he admits the start up (he says the company feels to be in a permanent state of startup) is a challenge, as is obtaining investment, but it is investing heavily in IP, taking out many international patents.

As for its manufacture, John says while some of the components are manufactured in China, Solar Bright has high hopes that it will be able to produce and assemble in Christchurch.

Contact: Email, Johnb@solarbright. co.nz; mobile; 021 654 601 www.solarbright.co.nz

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Thirty Year NZ Infrastructure Plan 2015

The Thirty Year New Zealand Infrastructure Plan 2015 “Foreword from the National Infrastructure Advisory Board Infrastructure, in its many forms, is critical to our economic performance and quality of life. The Thirty Year New Zealand Infrastructure Plan 2015 adds to our understanding of New Zealand’s infrastructure. By supporting long-term planning, it will help to ensure New Zealand has the infrastructure required to support our aspirations for an efficient economy and higher living standards.

The National I n f r a s t r u c t u re A d v i s o r y Board (the Board) provides t h e Tre a s u r y ’s N a t i o n a l Infrastructure Unit (NIU) and the Minister of Finance with advice and perspectives on infrastructure issues.

Over the last three years, the Board has encouraged the NIU to seek out a range of views, and to work with agencies to develop shared objectives, a comprehensive evidence base and responses to key infrastructure challenges.”

The above copy of part of the foreword by the National Infrastructure Advisory Board taken from the thirty year plan document states that infrastructure in its many forms is critical to our economic performance and quality of life.

Whilst I agree emphatically with this plan, I found on reading the document that in the whole text there was no mention anywhere of one of the most crucial items of infrastructure in any form.

“Rock” or to put it another way quarried products or aggregates.

There is a host of information about methods to improve the delivery and maintenance of critical infrastructure needs projected for the next thirty years but in all of the advice there is absolutely no mention of the basic requirement for quarry products to allow for the provision of the entire infrastructure mentioned.

If there is no allowances made in the regional and district planning, for the provision of a supply of aggregates then there will be no realistic chance of achieving any of the goals for infrastructure development and maintenance as set out in the thirty year plan.

Without a guaranteed supply of aggregates then society and its infrastructure will cease to exist in its current form. It is an absolute necessity of the developed environment in which we live.

No aggregates means no roading maintenance or development; no drainage

materials; no concrete for manufacture of pipes for the drainage; no concrete for construction; no builders mix for the home handyman; in fact in a very short time if there is no aggregate supply then there is no economic activity at all.

In relation to the maintenance and development of infrastructure, the first and most important basic requirement is to have a guaranteed supply of aggregates.

In New Zealand we consume approximately eight tonnes of aggregates per head of population per year on an ongoing basis just to maintain society as we know it today.

In times of reduced economic activity this figure can drop below four tonnes per head of population and in times of escalated activity the figure can rise to more than ten tonnes per head of population.

The plan predicts that there will be an increase of approximately 716,000 people in the Auckland region alone by the year 2043 and this figure tells us that we need to find approximately an extra 5,728,000 tonnes of aggregates per year to maintain the infrastructure for that extra population increase.

Overall the Auckland region will be using approximately 17,728,000 tonnes of aggregates per year (2,216,000people x 8tonnes) by the year 2043 and there is no mention in the plan of any provision for this aggregate supply.

Yes the private industry will find a way to supply the required aggregates whether it be from local sources or sources outside the city boundaries and that is as it should be, but it needs to be remembered and allowed for in the infrastructure planning, that there is a need for this quantity of aggregates and that it will need to be delivered to sites all over the city.

Currently the major supplies of aggregates are grouped in the Franklin District and mainly surrounded by rural land but in the next thirty years there is predicted to be a need for another 400,000 dwellings in the Auckland region and this may have an effect of changing the land use of the areas surrounding the current quarry sites.

This has in the past had the end result of creating an environment where the quarry is seen as an activity that must be removed from the proximity to the built up areas therefore causing it to close and move further from built up urban areas.

This then has the effect of raising the costs of aggregates to the end users and this has

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a flow on effect of reducing the amount of infrastructure maintenance or development that can be undertaken for the same amount of money, due to increased costs.

When you transport quarry products over a distance, you raise the price by approximately double for every thirty kilometres you transport the product and this also has the added problems with extra heavy traffic movements.

If the requirements of the year 2043 reach around 17,728,000 tonnes then this will equate to approximately 886,400 truck and trailer movements per year to transport this product to the end users. This is a conservative figure for truck movements as we know that a percentage of the product will not be carted on truck and trailers but will need to be carted on smaller vehicles due to customer job requirements, thereby increasing the number of truck movements.

This heavy traffic alone will have a huge effect on the infrastructure requirements over and above the actual supply issues mentioned earlier. It will also have a huge effect on climate change issues such as the use of fossil fuels and the greenhouse gas effects from that.

The plan also sets out the support for the growing role of the Maori economy with Tainui planning to spend $3.3 Billion on the Ruakura Freight Hub and the Tuhoe planning to spend approximately $10M per year on infrastructure but again there is no mention of the crucial requirement for the need to plan around the supply of aggregates to allow these projected plans to be completed.

In the welcome from the Minister published in the plan it states: “Infrastructure supports much of our daily lives – even if it isn’t something we think about unless it is going wrong.

It is the roads we drive on and it delivers the electricity we use. Infrastructure provides the water we drink and farm with, and forms the backbone of social services through hospitals, schools and houses.

It is a key driver of the economy, public services and the government’s finances: >> For businesses to invest another dollar and employ another person, they need to be confident that they will have reliable access to the right infrastructure. >> Infrastructure underpins social service d e l i v e r y. E n s u r i n g t h a t education, health and justice networks are fit for purpose gives the government the best chance of making a difference

in the lives of New Zealanders. >> Better management of the government’s $116 billion of existing infrastructure assets, and $50 billion of forecast infrastructure spend over the next ten years, can deliver real benefits for the government’s books.”

It also states further on: “The Plan is intended to increase the understanding of how existing infrastructure can be better utilised, and to update plans for infrastructure needs over the next 30 years.

This complements the more immediate focus of the Government’s Business Growth Agenda.

The Plan shows that New Zealand’s infrastructure will face a range of challenges and opportunities, including networks that will need e x p a n d i n g o r re n e w i n g , the pressures of an aging, urbanising population, tight fiscal constraints and changing technology.

Meeting New Zealand’s infrastructure challenges over the next 30 years, and taking advantage of the opportunities, will require coordination across a range of infrastructure partners and stakeholders – not just in central government but also from local government and the private sector.

This Plan reflects the work occurring across all of these stakeholders, led by the National Infrastructure Unit, to better understand the services that will be needed in the future; improve the information about, and management of, our existing assets; and ensure we have the right settings to make better investment decisions in the future.”

All of the issues addressed in the Minister’s welcome statement are true and should be endorsed by all New Zealand citizens, but none of the projected strategies in the plan can be bought to fruition without a guaranteed supply of aggregates and for this reason the supply of aggregates, in my opinion, should have been one of the first issues addressed in the research for the plan and in the setting out of the planning priorities.

The reasons behind my opinion are as follows: 1. A g g r e g a t e i s a n absolute necessity if we want to continue to live in the developed society we currently have.

2. Q u a r r y i n g i n most situations is a long term business with a very high capital cost for development and with a reasonably long time period

for return on investment and to reach profitability overall.

3. Existing quarries need to be protected from encroaching urban development.

4. T h e supply of aggregates has the potential for huge impact on other infrastructure from perspective of traffic movements, fossil fuel usage/ climate change issues and the increased costs likely from the mitigation of these impacts.

I therefore find it to be almost unbelievable that the Thirty Year New Zealand Infrastructure Plan does not address the requirements around supply of aggregates anywhere in the document when in fact this is the most crucial underpinning support requirement for all infrastructure maintenance and development.

Without a supply of rock society as we know it today cannot exist. We will soon be back to living a subsistence style similar to that which existed before the stone age man used the first piece of rock as a tool.

A. J. Loader. HonFIQ, DipQ, DipOSH, RSP,ASA.

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