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Mainzeal in receivership

Mainzeal in receivership

News | Given the recent news of Mainzeal Property and Construction going into receivership, ArchitectureNow wishes the company's suppliers and staff all the very best in the days and months ahead. For those in...
Posted: 6 Feb 2013
NZIOB 'Connect'

NZIOB ‘Connect’

News | In the aftermath of the Mainzeal receivership, the New Zealand Institute of Building (NZIOB) has announced an initiative to support displaced employees of both Mainzeal and its sub-contractors. The se...
Posted: 14 Feb 2013
Victoria University's new hub

Victoria University’s new hub

Projects | Mainzeal is also refurbishing the library (floor area of 10,490 sq m includes Maclaurin and Easterfield buildings) and upgrading services while they work around the study rhythms of students and staff. ...
In profile: Stephen Kleehammer

In profile: Stephen Kleehammer

People | He recently accepted the position of domestic delivery manager with MWH-Mainzeal, and is responsible for managing the delivery of a residential; portfolio of properties for repair or rebuilding. Stephen...
Itinerary: Sports architecture

Itinerary: Sports architecture

Review | Construction difficulties meant contractor Mainzeal took heavy losses on the project; these likely contributed to its collapse a few years later. The building is now owned by controversial entertainment...
Ohakea: five star facility

Ohakea: five star facility

Projects | Don Gillies, Mainzeal contracts manager central region, says the Green Star rating system adopted for the project is the Industrial 2009 Rating tool and the MSS is the first building in New Zealand to b...
Geyser building

Geyser building

Projects | It sits on the site of the new Geyser development, currently a large, busy, compact Mainzeal construction project which, at first glance, gives little indication that anything special is happening there...
Coastlands Aquatic Centre

Coastlands Aquatic Centre

Projects | Paraparaumu has long been known as a place of many ovens, although these days it is more home to the Fisher & Paykel range than to many buried earth pits. As a beachside retirement resort, it has not ...
Lifting perceptions with Green Star

Lifting perceptions with Green Star

News | Key elements of the path to gaining a 6 Green Star Certified Rating on a budget were revealed at a function at the Stephenson & Turner (S&T) design studio (read the story from Interior magazine) in We...
Best buildings of 2011

Best buildings of 2011

Awards | Mainzeal Property and Construction Limited took out the supreme award for Project of the Year in the commercial section, as well as the Industrial and Infrastructure Project, with its development of The...
Rocking the shortlist

Rocking the shortlist

News | / The Rock is the jewel in Wellington International Airport's crown; it's the tarmac tarrying Warren and Mahoney and Studio Pacific Architects collaboration which, when built, doubled the airport's ...
A change for the better

A change for the better

Practice | The issue was highlighted with the collapse of Mainzeal, where about $18 million of subcontractors’ retention money was lost for many small subcontracting businesses. The government has introduced a sup...
Geyser

Geyser

Projects | As an architect, it never pays to be too impatient. The process of making architecture is typically a waiting game, punctured by periods of extremely intensive activity. One of the lengthiest projects...
Changing faces

Changing faces

People | Back in New Zealand in 1977, Warren joined Cubitts, and then moved to Mainzeal in 1978, where he was involved with projects including Botany Town Centre, North Harbour Stadium, and Mt Eden Prison. After...
Young achiever

Young achiever

People | This project introduced him to building sustainably, a new passion for Rowden. Back in New Zealand in 2004, Rowden accepted a position with Mainzeal at Burwood Hospital in Christchurch. “I was a leading...
Auckland Zoo Giraffe House

Auckland Zoo Giraffe House

Projects | Designing a house can be a real challenge when your client not only is the tallest creature on earth but has a propensity for unscrewing light bulbs with her tongue. This new Giraffe House at Aucklan...
Te Kopahou Reserve

Te Kopahou Reserve

Projects | The entrance to Te Kopahou Reserve on Wellington’s south coast was once home to an industrial quarry building, and full of potholes. Now landscaped, with shelter for visitors, the entrance to the rese...
Manukau Tertiary Centre

Manukau Tertiary Centre

Projects | It was initially being built by Mainzeal but that firm’s sudden death-spiral to insolvency left the partially built structure roofless for a dismal period. Some of its innards, exposed to the elements, ...
Thomas Building extension

Thomas Building extension

Projects | Thanks to a century of Auckland dithering, the city’s University has ended up with a lot of good modern architecture. When the capital moved south in 1865, hopes for its return delayed any constructio...
ASB Sports Centre

ASB Sports Centre

Projects | Wellington’s ASB Sports Centre is a creeper; sitting into Evans Bay, it is hunkered in between the ocean and the neighbouring hills and most people will have viewed its undulating elliptical form whil...
City sights

City sights

People | It was a fantastic experience to work on that, it was a $70-million project.” / After a couple of years, Mainzeal took Marler on, and during three years of employment with the company, he completed an M...
Seismic design: engineering wood

Seismic design: engineering wood

Review | Mainzeal helped them with the building of the prototype inside the lab – and then the subsequent dismantling and rebuilding of it on the grounds of the university, which they did between the September 2...
Shed 10

Shed 10

Projects | Time to celebrate a heritage survivor! Shed 10, one of the last remaining original industrial buildings on Auckland’s waterfront, has been brought back to life, to the delight of ‘most’ of the archite...
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