Tauranga building projects score gongs at national awards

The Toi Ohomai - Te Ara o Mauao building won a silver award in the 2018 New Zealand Commercial Project Awards. Photo / Supplied

Four major Tauranga building projects were recognised with silver awards at the prestigious 2018 New Zealand Commercial Project Awards.

Run by the Registered Master Builders Association, the awards, which were handed out
in Auckland last night, set the benchmark for commercial construction in New Zealand.

Tauranga architects Chow: Hill won a silver award in the Construction Marketing Services Education Project category for its work on the Toi Ohomai - Te Ara o Mauao facility.

The Te Ara o Mauao facility and adjacent landscape were designed as part of a wider Creative Arts and Applied Technology Precinct.

The project moved the organisation from prefab classrooms towards a modern project-based learning environment.

Tauranga-based Archistudio architectural design firm received a silver award in the Retail category for The Lakes Village building project.

Archistudio received a silver award in the Retail category for The Lakes Village building project. Photo / Supplied

Also winning a silver award in the Retail category was Hawkins Construction for the Tauranga Crossing Shopping Centre - Stage One development.

Tauranga Crossing - Stage One wins silver award. Photo / Supplied

Awarded a silver award in the PlaceMakers Tourism & Leisure Project category was Babbage Consultants Limited & Hawkins Construction NI Limited JV for the ACG Tauranga Sports Complex development.

ACG Tauranga Sports Complex project recognised with silver award. Photo / Supplied

Project Viking, Skellerup's $15 million Dairy Rubberware Development and Manufacturing facility in Christchurch, was awarded the Supreme Commercial Project of the Year Award.

"Celebrating the winners of this year's Commercial Project Awards, and the innovative approaches they have used is a great way to share our learnings and innovations to move our industry forward," Registered Master Builders chief executive David Kelly said.

The Awards are sponsored by PlaceMakers, Altus, GIB, Allied Concrete, Construction Marketing Services and CARTERS.

To view other winners and their projects visit www.commercialprojectawards.co.nz