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Who were the 2021 NZ Building
Industry Award winners?
The New Zealand Institute of Building (NZIOB) announced the winners of the 2021 New Zealand Building Industry Awards on Friday 13 August.
The GIB Supreme Award and James Hardie Innovation
Award were both won by Farzam Farzadi from Beca for Digital Delivery Processes on the Waikato River to Redoubt water
supply programme. This project encompassed the design and construction of infrastructure to deliver an additional 50 million litres of treated water per day from the Waikato River to Auckland.
This year’s awarded the BCITO Young Achievers Award went to Michael Xu from Aurecon NZ. The Judges said: “Michael is highly motivated and committed.
“Five years into his career, he leads a team of multidisciplinary building services engineers on some of New Zealand’s most technically challenging healthcare projects.”
The Site Safety & CHASNZ Safety Excellent Award, celebrating a new product or process that promotes construction safety, was won by Matt Hutchinson and Ricky Ciobanu from Ryman Healthcare for their Vertical Panel Storage Device (VPSD).
The VPSD is a safe storage system for plasterboard panels that stores plasterboard panels in an upright position to stop stacks from collapsing, reduces wastage, guards against moisture contamination, and prevents overloading floor slabs on multi-storey projects.
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Large-scale mass timber buildings – the hunt is on
DESIGN FUNDING IS now available for qualifying, yet-to-be- constructed wooden buildings as part of a partnership between the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and Red Stag.
Funding of several hundred thousand dollars is potentially available for a select number of projects that qualify for the scheme, explains Red Stag group CEO Marty Verry.
“What we are trying to do with MPI is showcase different types of mid-rise wooden structures that push the boundaries in terms of scale or height.”
MPI and Red Stag are therefore looking for “demonstration projects” that are going to be constructed in the next two years, such as five-plus level apartments or aged care, mid-rise office buildings, large format retail, industrial or warehouse projects, as well as educational and cultural projects.
The initiative is part of the Mid-Rise Wood Construction programme, a partnership between Red Stag and MPI originally set up under the Primary Growth Partnership programme.
The scheme will help support the Government’s initiatives to deliver a zero-carbon construction sector by phasing out carbon-intensive materials used in construction.
Looking beyond the current building product shortage, the programme also could accelerate green solutions to New Zealand’s accommodation crisis by eliminating Embodied Carbon in New Zealand’s buildings.
The demonstration building programme is already underway with its first project in Christchurch, Red Stag’s Clearwater Quays five-storey apartment development.
Built with CLT, LVL and prefabricated timber walls, Clearwater Quays is carbon negative but has been calculated as costing the same as if using high emission materials such as steel and concrete.
“The objective is to educate and prepare the New Zealand design community for the changes government will be making with its ‘Building for Climate Change’ programme next year.
“We would welcome anyone with potential demonstration projects in the pipeline to get in touch,” says Marty Verry.
marty@redstag.co.nz
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