2014 GOLD AWARD

2014 GOLD RESERVE

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Tony has taken over the role as Chairman of the Masterbuilders North Harbour branch.  Branch meetings are held bi monthly to keep members up to date with the lastest industry news.

You can have confidence that TP Builders Ltd, being licensed building practitioners, are competent and that your homes and buildings are built right the first time.

Licensing promotes, recognises and supports professional skills and behaviour in the building industry. Over time, the emphasis on education and training, along with better career pathways, will increase. From 2015 it is proposed that licensing will be qualifications-based. In the meantime, the scheme is competency based.

All LBPs are listed on a public online register, along with details of their licence classes. The Department of Building and Housing has worked closely with the building industry to develop the scheme.

Some critical work will be restricted to LBPS from 1 March 2012.

For more information regarding LBP

The graph show the following information:

– our score against each judging criteria

– the average score for our region

– the average score for the Gold Reserve finalists

– the total points available in each sub criteria

– the percentage of our marks out of the total available

– the quality mark awarded based on our total score

TP Builders Ltd are extremely proud of their apprentice Stephen Kerr who has won the Northern Region competition and will now compete in the National competition to be held in Wellington in October 2009.

Stephen’s win highlights the commitment that TP Builders put into ensuring we have a highly skilled team who are dedicated to producing high quality projects.

2013 GOLD AWARD

2013 LOCAL CATERGORY WINNER

2013 GOLD RESERVE

Devonport is one of Auckland’s premier historic suburbs, established in the late 1800s and the locals are fiercely protective of the heritage that is the hallmark of this area. With this in mind the house has been designed using traditional forms and with mostly traditional materials and detailing. Where modern materials have been used as with the aluminium window joinery, care has been taken to use traditional proportions and detailing in a way that is consistent with its neighbours.

While the house has a traditional flavour it is in every other sense determinedly modern, designed to connect strongly with its outdoor spaces and its beachside location. Room sizes are generous and extensive glazing fills the spaces with sun and light. The house delivers the lifestyle requirements of the modern family with easy flow to outdoor living areas and pool, strong connection to sun and views and multiple living spaces which allow relaxing and entertaining options for all the members of the family.

Interior finishes and fittings are to a very high standard. Extensive use of marble and timber give this house a sense of quality and luxury and the highly specified bathrooms are designed and finished to pamper the occupants. Interior cabinetry to the kitchen , bathrooms and living spaces is another feature of the house and the warmth of the timber softens the impact of the marble floors and walls.

The building is another collaboration between Shanahan Architects and TP Builders who have teamed up on a number of projects. The level of specification and finish required demanded a level of care and attention to detail that is TP Builder’s signature and testament to the subcontractor team that has been assembled to deliver this home.

Angelsea St, Ponsonby

Angelsea St, Ponsonby

2012 GOLD AWARD

2012 LOCAL CATERGORY WINNER

Click here for Graph of Points Awarded by Judges

Building sites in central city suburbs are hard to come by and are often the leftover bits of land that no one has yet been brave enough to build on. Anglesea Street is just such a site and sits at the bottom of a valley. Access is down a steep drive from one side of the valley and the site climbs steeply up the other. To add to the challenge, an existing neighbouring house is built hard up to the eastern boundary presenting a two storey block wall to that side and large trees overhung the northern and western boundaries. It was always going to be a difficult site to design for and a difficult site to build on.

SUPREME AWARD

The Auckland region’s hottest properties have been chosen and more than a dozen of the city’s builders recognised for their golden touch.

The 2011 House of the Year and RMB Commercial Project Awards were held at Telstra Clear Stadium on Saturday night and recognised several city properties as well as others from Russell in the Bay of Islands through to Whitianga in the Coromandel.

The award ceremony is one of 14 regional events that take place before the national finalists are announced in September.

Eighteen builders from the Auckland region were recognised with Gold Awards which puts them in the running to become the overall National Winner which will be announced at a gala dinner in November.

T P Builders Limited was awarded the PlaceMakers Supreme Award for the Renovation of the Year, as well as the PlaceMakers Renovation Award over $500,000 category, for the transformation of a Birkenhead home with spectacular panoramic views.

Builder Tony Pexton said the renovation had left “only a couple of the walls still standing”.

“It was a very extensive rebuild. From the outside, if anything it’s a little bit understated, but when you get inside you see.”

The Birkenhead renovation took 14 months and required owners Neil and Irena Tolich to move out of their house of 28 years and into a rental during the build.

Irena Tolich said she had “complete confidence” in builder Tony Pexton and architect Belinda George.

Their ability to work and communicate effectively prevented any melt-downs such as those seen on shows like Grand Designs.

Tolich said the home had become very spacious and now had “lovely high ceilings”.

Pexton said the renovation had left “only a couple of the walls still standing”.

“It was a very extensive rebuild. From the outside, if anything it’s a little bit understated, but when you get inside you see.”

Judges said the home had been “completely reconfigured using some very precise structural steelwork”.

The RMB Commercial Project of the Year went to Mainzeal Property and Construction for its East Tamaki development of Lion Nathan’s Project Century.

A multi-million dollar, nine-bedroom, nine-bathroom “resort-like” home on a secluded water-front property in the Bay of Islands won most of the major awards including House of the Year, New Home over $2 million, the Gib Living Award, the PlaceMakers Heart of the Home Kitchen Award and the PlaceMakers Bathroom Excellence Award.
It was completed by Auckland company Lindesay Construction Limited

Judges said the home had been “completely reconfigured using some very precise structural steelwork”.

“(It has) created a large open plan living area that leads straight out to the pool area,” judges said.

“The joinery, windows and sliding doors were beautifully done. The workmanship was extremely good.”

The Bay of Islands Home of the Year was built by Lindesay Construction Ltd on the Russell Peninsula.

Judges said it was “a family home set up more like a resort, with numerous sporting amenities and the beach at their door step.”

Builder Tony Pexton discusses project (Video & Article courtesy from Stuff.co.nz)

The graph show the following information:

– our score against each judging criteria

– the average score for our region

– the average score for the Gold Reserve finalists

– the total points available in each sub criteria

– the percentage of our marks out of the total available

– the quality mark awarded based on our total score

You can have confidence that TP Builders Ltd, being licensed building practitioners, are competent and that your homes and buildings are built right the first time.

Licensing promotes, recognises and supports professional skills and behaviour in the building industry. Over time, the emphasis on education and training, along with better career pathways, will increase. From 2015 it is proposed that licensing will be qualifications-based. In the meantime, the scheme is competency based.

All LBPs are listed on a public online register, along with details of their licence classes. The Department of Building and Housing has worked closely with the building industry to develop the scheme.

Some critical work will be restricted to LBPS from 1 March 2012.

For more information regarding LBP