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Riverlands House Enlists Award Winning Builders
South Island owned and operated construction company Amalgamated Builders Ltd (ABL) are the main building contractors for the Riverlands House project.
Established in 1961 ABL has gone from strength to strength with offices across a large part of the country. Recently recognised for excellence in commercial building, ABL has won the New Zealand Commercial Projects Platinum Award. The award recognises excellence in the building process and practices within the commercial contracting sector and is the highest possible achievement in the Commercial Construction Awards calendar. The Platinum award is bestowed only on those who have won five or more national titles and adds to ABL's already long and impressive list of accolades. The ABL team has won national awards across multiple categories including their work on Rippon Hall, at Rippon Vineyard in Wanaka, Queenstown luxury Sofitel hotel and the unique Puzzling World attraction in Wanaka.
ABL South Island Business Development Manager Andrew Plant believes the company culture and ethos has enabled them to deliver such award winning projects. "As well as delivering projects based on traditional design using locally sourced and available products, we also investigate alternative design and construction solutions that improve efficiency, structural integrity and cost effectiveness. It's part of our workplace culture - at ABL we solve construction issues before they become problems and come up with creative solutions. That's what our clients have come to expect and one of the reasons we were chosen for the Riverlands House project.
"We place a lot of emphasis on working as a team and bringing practical builder 'smarts' to the table. This. together with the value we place on honest. open relationships has resulted in an award winning formula for the business. It was this approach that really appealed to the developers of Riverlands House and which helped us to secure the project" says Plant.
Recent contracts around the South Island include:
• Harvard Hub Business Park at Wigram Skies
• Chateau on the Park earthquake repairs
• Christchurch Adventure Park
• Lincoln New World Supermarket
• 136 Moorhouse Avenue Commercial New Build
• lnvercargill Airport Terminal Building -now the "benchmark" for other regional airports to aspire to on future re-developments.
• Dunedin Distinction Hotel. a 130 room conversion of the historic Chief Post Office building with reception area, restaurant. gymnasium and meeting rooms
• Mosgiel Countdown supermarket
• Cardrona Distillery and Museum, the world's most southerly whiskey distillery
• Eichardt's Private Hotel expansion at Marine Parade on the lake front of Queenstown
For more information please click on the link below which will take you to Canterbury Build September 2016 Issue - you'll find the article on page 53.
