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The reroof of a 500sqm, earthquake damaged home in Christchurch with multiple pitches and requiring removal of 47 tonnes of concrete tiles has seen installer Chris Meldrum, of Town & Country Roofing Ltd win this year’s RANZ Professionalism in Metal Tile Roof Installation Award.

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Metalcraft Roofing support NZ architecture students to attend the ‘Total Immersion’ Architecture Student Summer School 2013

Richard Leplastrier, seminal architect, great teacher, old friend of Glenn Murcutt, talks about building architecture in the landscape, as “furnishing the greater...

Strategic growth continues for Roofing Industries Ltd, with the launch recently of a new website and a marketing tag describing the company as “the only national 100% New Zealand owned and operated longrun metal roofing and cladding manufacturing company.”

Recent expansion has included...

The NZMRM Annual Conference was held in Queenstown 13 to 18 September 2012 and was attended by a record 110 people, which is up some 20% on the numbers that would typically attend an offshore conference. The Conference was held at the Hilton Hotel and the social highlights included an Industry...

Steel & Tube’s ST963 profile has been specifically developed with unique design elements for superior performance over traditional high rib profiles.

Responding to industry feedback for a profile with more efficient cover than traditional high rib trapezoidal profiles, with stronger...

When Carl Mossman started with A. Balfour Ltd in Cambridge in January 1972 he probably never envisaged he would work for the same company for the next 40 years.

Balfours Cambridge was the roofing and plumbing outlet for the Tauranga based manufacturing operation of A Balfour Ltd,...

The Roofing Assoc. of NZ has issued a set of guidelines for roof replacement for homes damaged in Christchurch earthquakes.

The guidelines apply only to work done within the Christchurch City Council jurisdiction and cover timber frames only and give the requirements for...

Metrotile has around 50 roof lots of fully warranted end of line metal roof tiles, totalling some $250,000, that it is offering free of charge to the
people of Christchurch.

To access this support the applicants were required to register there interest on the Metrotile website...

Gerard Roofs continued to show its commitment to industry training recently holding a very successful day in which 31 of their Auckland and Northland based contractors completed Licensed Building Practitioner (LBP) Roofing applications.

Holding this function at the Gerard Roofs...

In issue 26 we reported on the holiday home of David Jack and Elizabeth Thomas at Langs Beach. An important design element of this innovative project was the design and fixing of the Thermospan roofing installed by Design Metal roofing. We acknowledge the excellent work done by Design Metal...