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Bunnings NZ and Mitre 10 NZ have been spending time, energy and resources doing good for communities.
Bunnings backs roots rugby again – As part of its broader program supporting New Zealand grass roots rugby, Bunnings is calling on clubs who need help upgrading their facilities to be more inclusive to support the needs of their women’s squad, to apply for Bunnings Rugby Assist.
Ten clubs will be selected to receive $30,000 worth of Bunnings products and materials and to cover labour costs.
Last year, Bunnings contributed $300,000 of products and materials, plus physical support, and aid, to rugby clubs throughout the country to improve their facilities which ranged from refreshing the sheds, interior and exterior painting, and new plumbing.
www.provincial.rugby/bunnings-rugby- assist
Invercargill MEGA musters support – The Southland community has delivered another milestone in the development of the Southland Charity Hospital with the deck completed and kitchen installed in the community family room.
Southland Charity Hospital was established to provide Southlanders with better access to cancer care, following Blair Vining’s highly publicised battle with terminal bowel cancer.
Determined to see change, wife Melissa Vining has been the driving force in bringing the community together to build this much-needed resource for Southland and Otago from an old pub gifted by the local Invercargill Licencing Trust.
Built by locals, Mitre 10 MEGA Invercargill became deeply connected with the project and took on managing the renovation of the community family room and the building of a new deck as part of its Helping Hands community support programme.
Invercargill MEGA General Manager Tracy Key mustered support from far and wide, sourcing materials and labour from suppliers and local trades. She said if felt only right that, as Southlanders, the team should do something to help.
www.mitre10.co.nz/helpinghands
THREE RECENT AWARDS programs celebrated both design and good practice in our industry.
2022 Dulux Colour Awards – The winning projects in the 2022 Dulux Colour Awards were selected from no less than 103 finalists from New Zealand and Australia, competing across six categories for awards and commendations.
The judges made special mention of a strong suite of small-scale projects from New Zealand, particularly in the Raesidential Interior Category.
“Eden View, Heron House, Casper’s House and Kimiora Apartment all demonstrated strong colour use,
with unexpected combinations and applications revealing a level of experimentation that only succeeds with creative conviction,” says judge Adam Pustola. “The impact of these interventions surprised and impressed.”
Despite the project’s modest scope, the NZ Grand Prix winner and recipient of a Commendation in the Residential Interior Category – Eden View by Pac Studio (photos above) – “Celebrates the richness of everyday life. the result is transformative and highly effective
– a credit to the architects’ vision and resolve,” said the judges.
www.dulux.co.nz/colourawards
NKBA
Excellence in
Design Awards
– The best
kitchen in New
Zealand for
2022 has been
announced. A
“breath-taking testament to design and innovation,” the NKBA Excellence in Design SUPREME Kitchen Design
Award Winner is Auckland designer is Natalie Du Bois of Du Bois Designer Kitchens & Interiors. Her “magnificent” winning space is a modern and industrial kitchen which also won Natalie the Designer of the Year crown, the DNKBA Kitchen Design Elite/ Platinum Award and the Auckland Chapter Recognition Award.
Not content with designing the best kitchen, Natalie Du Bois also took out the NKBA Excellence in Design SUPREME Bathroom Design Award for “a moody and textural” guest bathroom that judges described as “a play on clean curves and rough edgy elements.”
With no images available at this time, we hope to show more from the 2022 NKBA Excellence in Design Awards in the next issue of NZ Hardware Journal.
https://nkba.org.nz/
2022 New Zealand Plumbing Awards
– Rotorua’s Energy Events Centre was the venue for the 2022 New Zealand Plumbing Awards last month.
The top award, that of 2022 Master Plumber of the Year, recognises a Master Plumbers member that can “clearly demonstrate its business acumen
and drive for success. The recipient
will exemplify the highest levels of professionalism and service.”
And 2022’s winner was Bay of Islands Plumbing & Gas in Kerikeri and the award was received by Rachel Watson and Zane Britton (see photo).
The judges said it was “a hotly contested award, which was extremely hard to decide on a winner.”
https://bit.ly/MPAwards22
8 NZHJ | JULY 2022
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