Housing New Zealand
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Kāinga Ora Community Apartments

Housing NZ under construction
Kainga Ora Auckland
Kainga Ora Auckland

Based on budget and time restraints, Kāinga Ora (Housing New Zealand) were introduced to the innovation of building with CLT, and ENGCO’s specialist engineering advise was required to build eight one-bedroom apartments.

The ability to utilise off-site manufacturing technologies and the reduced construction time on site, not to mention the sustainability and thermal efficiency of using CLT, was very attractive to our client. 

Kāinga Ora are now using CLT for several other projects that will yield 170+ new homes across Auckland. 

ENGCO has been engaged to provide specialist structural engineering and product development skills under a special R&D arm of Kāinga Ora.

The aim of the project has been to find an optimised construction solution for multi-storey apartments. The project has been highly successful with Housing New Zealand entrusting ENGCO and the greater design/build team with multiple sites.

Highly competitive construction cost with low risk, resilient design and approximately six month construction times.

The designs are a hybrid construction utilising Ribraft foundations, prefabricated CLT & closed panel walls, CLT floors & stairwell.

Environmental & social improvements were incorporated into the designs with the houses gaining at least a Homestar 6 rating.

Reduced waste, defects and program delays.

Project Lead_
Julian Addington

Architects_
RM Designs

Client_
Kāinga Ora

Contractor_
Miles Construction