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Otago Daily Times
24-05-2025
- Business
- Otago Daily Times
Building projects nationally recognised
Queenstown building companies have this week been recognised on the national stage for local projects. Cook Brothers Construction, Naylor Love Central Otago and Lakes Building Co have all been honoured at the New Zealand Commercial Project Awards, which recognise the contribution of entire project teams. Cook Brothers won the value award ($10million to $25m), the tourism and leisure project award and picked up a gold award — recognising projects which receive a judging score between 900 and 1000 points — for Arrowtown's Ayrburn hospitality precinct, specifically the meticulous restoration of the Woolshed, Manure Room and Dairy. Owned by Winton, project partners were Aquaheat, ENGCO, Qube Consultants Ltd and SA Studios. The entry says the project balanced heritage with modern craftsmanship, utilising original schist and river stones and timber to preserve the site, while also significantly reducing its carbon footprint. Cook Brothers also picked up silver in the civic category for the Salvation Army's new building at Remarkables Park, on which it worked with 1Point618, Consort QS, Powell Fenwick Consultants and TSA Riley. Naylor Love won a gold award in the heritage and restoration category for its Speight's Ale House rebuild, which included DGSE, Ignite Architects, Lewis Bradford Consulting Engineers, Origin Consultants, Wainwright & Hickey and Heritage Stonework. The iconic building's restoration followed a devastating fire in 2023 — completed last September, the project preserved its architectural heritage, while bringing it in line with modern building codes. The building company also won two gold awards in the commercial category, one of which was for an office complex at 22 Wiltshire St, Arrowtown, which it worked on with Cosgroves, Hadley Consultants, Lewis Bradford, Origin Heritage Architects, Rubix and SB Design. Naylor Love's other gold award in that category was for Invercargill's HWR Tower. Lakes Building Co won a silver award in the tourism and leisure category for Arthurs Point's Cargo Brew Hall, which it worked on in conjunction with Yoke.
RNZ News
14-05-2025
- General
- RNZ News
Dismantling of historic Dunedin Gasworks chimney begins
The Dunedin City Council says the chimney at the Dunedin Gasworks Museum is in worse condition than first thought. Photo: RNZ / Tess Brunton Workers will start the careful, brick by brick dismantling of a historic Dunedin landmark - aiming to repair it and put it back together in the future. The Dunedin Gasworks Museum was closed last month to assess the safety of the 25-metre tall chimney after possible earthquake damage. Dunedin City Council owns the Category 1 historic place, and said a recent update found it was in worse condition than first thought. The chimney - a relic of the country's only gasworks - has stood proud over South Dunedin since the 1800s. But last month, an assessment found there was an imminent risk to public safety. The latest news painted a grim picture: once work to repair the cracks got underway, the chimney might collapse. Naylor Love is tasked with the urgent work. Its project and interiors manager Paul Stevenson said it was a big job ahead. "The cracks are appearing quite considerably. We're having corrosion inside the chimney, which is expanding, which is opening up those joints now," he said. A crane carrying what looked like a skip hovered near the top of the chimney, as workers secured the walers - 12 metre long timbers - to minimise the risk of it falling down. Naylor Love project and interiors manager Paul Stevenson. Photo: RNZ / Tess Brunton Below the chimney is a no-go zone. "We have to bring it down piece by piece, record it with the hope in the future of rebuilding it and the concern was if we didn't put the walers around we'd lose a lot of that ... it'll just naturally want to fall out," Stevenson said. At least the top four to six metres will come down before the chimney is reassessed, but he was not ruling out more going if that was what it took to make it safe again. He was working within tight rules because the gasworks is a Category 1 historic place. "So we photograph, we pull them out, we number them, we record them, we bring them down, we put them on pallets and store them so we can, in theory, piece the whole thing back together," he said. "Each layer, three bricks all the way around, also maintaining the ladder rungs that are in there and all that, we need to record all that with the hope of being able to rebuild it in the future." Dunedin City Council property services group manager Anna Nilsen said it was trying to save as much of the chimney as possible. It had been a difficult time for the Dunedin Gasworks Museum Trust, which operates the museum. "It's not their best news, for sure, but they're supportive of the work that we're doing. They're supportive of keeping the bricks aside for future restoration so we're working together pretty closely," Nilsen said. Last year, an engineering review recommended the council do a more detailed seismic assessment of the chimney. Dunedin City Council property services group manager Anna Nilsen said detailed inspections had been carried out using drones and crane access. Photo: RNZ / Tess Brunton Anna Nilsen did not believe the problems and risks should have been noticed earlier. "The review that we did last year was a starting point so it was the beginning of a seismic assessment," she said. "That first step was a desk based seismic assessment where it was just the start, we were getting ready to do the full seismic assessment which would have uncovered these things that we now know." It was not known how much the work would cost, but she said it had to be done. "I'd hate to give you a ballpark [be]cause I'd just be guessing at this stage. Look, it's health and safety. It's human life that we're talking about so we're always going to be able to find funds to do that and that's what we're challenged to do," Nilsen said. The dismantling is expected to take about three weeks. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
13-05-2025
- Health
- RNZ News
First signs of life at Dunedin hospital site
By Matthew Littlewood of Representatives from potential contracting firms visited the Dunedin hospital in-patient site. Photo: ODT / Gerard O'Brien Is this the first sign of life from the previously abandoned new Dunedin hospital project's inpatient building? Representatives from potential contracting firms, including Naylor Love, Breen Construction, Ceres and Leighs Construction, were spotted on the site on Tuesday. Tender documents obtained by the Otago Daily Times said it was part of a debrief for the firms, as tenders for the substructure works on the inpatient building were expected to be issued in late June. Work on the actual substructure is expected to begin in mid-September. Former head of the emergency department Dr John Chambers said while it might look like something was happening, it would be months before anything substantial occurred. "It will take some time analysing all the prospective tender applicants ... but at the same time, the ministry will have to have their say. So the whole thing seems very bureaucratic. "It's hellishly slow." In January, Health Minister Simeon Brown announced the government would build the new Dunedin hospital at the former Cadbury's site for $1.88 billion. It came after several months of deliberating over whether it would build a scaled-back version or retrofit the existing Dunedin Hospital. Recently, the ODT reported the number of ICU beds had been cut back from 30 to 20 upon opening, while the number of mental health for older people beds had been cut back from 24 to eight upon opening. Dr Chambers said so much was still unknown. "I can clearly understand the frustration of your readers. "They start to believe that it's never going to happen. I guess it's the early stages of the planning process. So we must be talking weeks to months." When the ODT asked about the nature of the meeting at the site, a Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora spokesperson said: "As with any build, site visits have and will continue to occur". This story was first published by the Otago Daily Times.
