COONEY HOUSE This three storey architecturally designed house includes large open (post-less) spaces resulting in large spanning steel beams supporting concrete floors with extremely complex load paths. The bracing system consists of blockwork shear walls around the garage level, steel portal frames on Level 1 and a [...]

HIGHBURY TRIANGLE This project consists of five medium-rise apartment blocks (between 6 and 8 stories) constructed primarily using precast concrete (Flatslab) floors, precast concrete walls and structural steel framing. This project represents one of the largest (single site) developments by Kainga Ora. Key performance criteria for the project [...]

Tapu House Tapu House is a high-performance passive house situated atop a hill in the Coromandel Peninsula. Three pods comprise the main house which sits above a bunker-like garage cut into the hill. The geometry of the house is extremely unconventional and demands a keen eye [...]

HOUSING NZ SUPERLOT 01 MANGERE This development consists of five apartment blocks (with a total of 60 apartments) and two terraced unit blocks (with a total of 6 units). The structure consists of prefabricated panellised light timber frame walls, glue-laminated timber (Glulam) and laminated veneer lumber [...]

LQ PARNELL An eleven-storey building with over 100 apartment suites and studios with a carpark, gymnasium, conference facilities and restaurant. An efficient structural design with an emphasis on construction speed, simplicity and consideration for market supply conditions resulted in a cost-effective structure. The comflor steel tray [...]

RAMADA GREENLANE A fourteen-storey building with over 150 apartment suites and studios with a basement carpark, gymnasium, conference facilities and restaurant. A key constraint was building over an existing stormater detention tank that covered half the building footprint which lead to a piled solution with a [...]

Ramada Queenstown A six-storey building with over 130 serviced apartment suites and studios, a basement car park, restaurant, conference facilities and a gymnasium. Early co-ordination of the apartments and car parks is important to ensure no costly transfer structures or car parks lost. A ductile eccentrically [...]

WAIMATARURU (Black Jack Road) This architecturally designed house was named the winner of the Housing category of the 2022 New Zealand Architecture Awards. Enovate’s cutting-edge timber engineering expertise was applied to the many connections throughout this unique and extraordinary house. McIntosh knee joints with SFS dowels and fixed [...]

ENFIELD Seven storey high end apartment building with bottom floor commercial/retail space and triple carstacker in sub basement pits. Challenging site constraints including considerable excavation undermining the neighbouring bridge retaining abutment and neighbouring rail line requiring early engagement with contractor and thought around construction sequencing. Steel framed structure [...]

6-8 BANFF AVENUE This project consists of a five storey apartment block (with a total of 10 apartments) constructed primarily using reinforced concrete ComFlor floors, insitu concrete walls and structural steel framing. Interior structural walls are constructed using the AFS formwork system and external walls a [...]