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both worlds in a great new urban location.

While three have already sold, there are still

three of these high-spec lakeside townhouses

available, so if you get in fast, you can still get

in on the action.

Home Trends Builders has been leading the

local industry for more than 30 years. Headed

by Peter de Gouw the firm has produced

everything from family homes and top end

architectural apartments, to complex hillside

builds and retirement units, enabling wide

industry exposure and a diverse skillset.

The Registered Master Builder offers design

and build options, utilising a team of respected

and licensed tradespeople and has house and

land packages available, with some exciting

new developments in the works.

We're proud to be local builders with a

winning team behind us, Peter says.

We've been in business since the 1980s.

Canterbury is home. We know and understand

the environment here. It's an exciting place to

be right now and we're lucky to call this home.

For more information on the Prestons Road

lakeside apartments phone Home Trends

Builders on 03-385 2413 or visit

www.hometrendsbuilders.co.nz.

Luxury lakeside townhouses

reflect local firm's quality

Telephone 03 385 2413 [email protected] www.hometrendsbuilders.co.nz

Constructed with an emphasis on quality,

featuring a lightweight concrete and

cedar exterior, these six three-bedroom

plus study townhouses offer exquisite designer

finishes and quality inclusions.

Alabaster White is juxtaposed against Grey

Friars joinery, achieving a contemporary yet

timeless look that won't easily date and the

stylish, understated look feeds through to the

interior which features charcoal carpeting

against crisp off-white walls.

Double garaging with automatic doors, double

glazing, under tile heating and a heat pump on

each level are some of the conveniences the

new owners have to look forward to and, with

uncompromised views of lakes and the distant

mountains, Prestons Road offers the best of

Home Trends Builders has

been leading the local

industry for more than 30

years. From family homes

and top end architectural

apartments, to complex

hillside builds and retirement

units, enabling wide industry

exposure and a diverse

skillset. We're proud to be

local builders with a winning

team behind us.

When it comes to property, they say it's all about 'location, location, location'. And, while the latest additions to the dynamic new Prestons

Road subdivision certainly have the location down pat, it's not all the boutique complex of six striking townhouses has going for it.

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Award-winning architectural not all

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Bold architectural statement beyond

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Theres quite the range of links in my bookmarks bar the chocolate cake in a

mug, great for those rainy days, but not so much the waistline; the exercise

guide designed to counteract the chocolate cake which, although much

healthier, has been visited a little less often; then theres the inspiring DIY pages, you

know, the ones that we plan to spend our weekends on, but end up instead eating

chocolate cake from a mug. Ok so perhaps thats just me, but at 20 weeks pregnant, I

have an excuse.

However I have chanced across some goodies when trawling my bookmarks for

editorial inspiration this issue. First up was a new French law which deems that all new

buildings built in commercial zones in France must be partially covered in either plants

or solar panels.

Green roofs, as they are called, have an isolating effect which helps to reduce the

amount of energy needed to heat a building during the winter or cool it in the summer.

They are capable of retaining rainwater and reducing problems with runoff, and also

offer birds a place to call home in the urban jungle.

Its already a popular concept in Germany and Australia, as well as the Canadian city

of Toronto where a 2009 by-law mandated green roofs on all new industrial and

residential buildings. This got me thinking about the opportunities the Christchurch

recovery offers for developing green public spaces.

Were already on the right track with the Urban Living Wall. A collaboration between

social enterprises, local government departments, schools and individuals, the citys

first temporary Living Wall at the corner of Cashel and High Streets utilises specially

designed planter panels made locally from old and new technology such as wood

carving, ceramics and 3D printed biodegradable plastic.

Its about making nature a part of the citys fabric, with more places for plants, insects,

spiders, small creatures, biodiversity and a greener urban environment. Its small

scale, but hopefully just the start of a greener future for Christchurch.

I know I say it every issue, but there is some cool stuff happening in our little corner of

the world and, so long as we keep our minds open and continue to be inspired,

theres no reason why we cant continue to be the coolest little corner of the world.

7: Rolleston set to become new home for

$500m port

8: EQC works to complete final and

most complex claims

9: Change is in the air for Migrant Work

Visas

10: Your business has only six months to

live!

18: Local projects big winners in

nationwide property awards

19: Public participation and the city

recovery plan

20: Apples for apples quote comparisons

23: Town Halls $127.5m restoration gets

go-ahead

27: Public rejects Victoria Squares $7m

revamp

28-29: Renowned property firm injecting

life into city fringe

30-31: Award-winning architectural not

all about shiny and new

32-33: Beyond-code building nets

Commercial Architecture award

34-35: Bold architectural statement

beyond ordinary expectations

36: Function Centres award-winning

form meets function

Local projects big winners in nationwide

property awards page 18

Interior design consultancy Creative

Spaces was engaged for the Leighs

Construction fit out within the $13m

Stranges Lane complex, creating an

open, collaborative, flexible office

space as bold on the inside as the

outside pages 34-35.

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- The Influencers

The housing repair programme is now past its

peak, with most repairs expected to be

completed by the end of the year 2016. We are

also seeing that we have caught up with the shortage

of new house builds and house building is returning to

normal pre-quake levels.

This is very good for Christchurch as it means

residential rents will stabilise or drop a little. This is

good to allow everyone to have a roof over their heads

at an affordable cost. Unfortunately Auckland seems

to be unable to ever catch up on its housing, causing

real problems for Auckland housing.

The announcement that some of the anchor projects

are now being delayed has taken the heat out of the

construction market in Christchurch. There is still an

enormous amount of work going on in our CBD, but

the predicted rampant inflation in construction costs

are now history.

There has been no real inflation in building costs this

year. There are still a few subcontractors trying to claim

inflationary prices but they will be finding they are out

of sync.

Our CBD has seen an upsurge in road repairs with

SCIRT working across a wide area of the CBD. I am

told that this is because they are planning to get most

of the underground services repaired by the end of

July 2016. That is very close and represents a great

effort by SCIRT to get this work completed.

With the implosion of the Police Station on Hereford

Street, Ngi Tahu have announced plans for the whole

city block bounded by Montreal, Hereford, Cambridge

Terrace and Cashel Streets. This will include several

office buildings, a 600 bay car park and residential

onto Montreal Street. This development is due to start

later this year.

This will complement all the rebuilding going on in and

around the Retail Precinct. This precinct will be our

new CBD heart and most of its rebuild will be

completed by the end of 2016, only 18 months away.

What a great time to be in Christchurch as we see our

new CBD come back to life.

Few would say that climate change is not changing our

world. We need to do our fair share to reduce our

greenhouse gas emissions to help avoid global

temperatures increasing by more than two degrees and

tipping the planet into the danger zone for a highly unstable

climate. We also need to adapt to a changing climate and

ensure our cities, towns and rural areas are more resilient.

Local government has the direct responsibility for managing

the immediate impacts of rising sea levels and increased

severe weather events. Those impacts are already starting to

bite with unusually large flood events already this winter in

Whanganui, New Plymouth, Kapiti, Wellington and Dunedin.

Local councils need more central government leadership,

policy support and help if we are to become more resilient.

We need a national map of areas vulnerable to sea level rise,

something which was done in the United Kingdom in 1990

but has yet to be done by New Zealand's Ministry for the

Environment (MFE). MFE should also be providing more

technical advice and support to councils.

There needs to be a stronger policy direction from central

government under the Resource Management Act about

establishing coastal and flood hazard zones, so that new

subdivision and building development avoids risk areas

and/or are easily relocatable.

There needs to be clear guidance about how coastal and

flood hazard zones should be identified, given their impact on

property values. We also need to know how we should have

local and regional conversations about whether a managed

retreat is the best strategy in some areas, and who bears and

shares the cost of this.

If we leave more space for nature by keeping riverbanks,

sand dunes, coastal and estuary margins free of

development, these natural areas can act as buffers against

rising sea levels and water tables, flooding and severe storm

events. If we protect wetlands, they can act as natural

sponges to regulate water flows. Councils need to stronger

direction to do this.

Christchurch is also uniquely placed to build in climate

resilience now, rather than retrofitting it. The City Council has

done some initial work on the extent of sea level rise and

areas at risk. The new provisions in the District Plan review

will be important.

These are not easy conversations to have but they must be

had. The sooner we start, the better prepared

we will be. Delaying will help no one,

least of all our communities.

This month a number of initiatives have come into

effect that will help Canterbury families. These

include free doctors' visits and prescriptions for

children under 13, increases to paid parental leave

payments and lower ACC vehicle registration fees.

The National-led Government is committed to helping

families get ahead. That's why Budget 2015 included a

$790 million package aimed at reducing hardship

among children living in some of our poorest families.

This investment will see us delivering a $25 a week

increase in benefit rates for families with children and an

increase of $12.50 a week for other low-income families.

Budget 2015 also included a further $107.8 million

investment in the Canterbury rebuild, which will support

land clearances to make way for anchor projects.

On top of this, we're investing up to $100 million in

rebuilding Lincoln University's science facilities,

damaged in the earthquakes. We're also bringing 1,700

employees from 20 public sector departments and

agencies back into the central city by next year.

Last month on one of my regular visits to Christchurch I

saw first-hand the progress being made on two anchor

projects the Justice and Emergency Services Precinct

and the recently opened Bus Interchange.

The first stage of the $53 million Bus Interchange

opened in late May. It's a stylish and user-friendly facility

and will help to make transport around the city easier.

The $300 million Justice and Emergency Services

Precinct is also well advanced and on schedule to be

completed late next year.

More than four years after the first earthquake,

supporting the rebuild of Canterbury is still one of the

National-led Government's most important priorities.

Since 2010 we've invested around $16.5 billion to the

Canterbury rebuild.

I'm excited by the progress being made in the rebuild

and we're focused on continuing to drive that progress

forward.

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Green Party MP

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Prime Minister

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Irecently visited New York for a United Nations conference

on disability issues. I managed to take some time to visit

the High Line, a park in central Manhattan developed on

a disused elevated railroad.

This got me thinking about the opportunities that the

Christchurch recovery offers for developing green public

spaces. There can be a tendency to focus solely on the

many new buildings that are springing up.

While the buildings we live, work and shop in are important,

we must not lose sight of the value of those areas in

between the streets and public spaces we use to get

around, or gather in to relax, catch up, or have fun.

Public spaces can mean anything from a civic square

through to a courtyard or laneway between two buildings.

So many of these spaces have been affected and are

changing as a result of the earthquakes that struck our city.

That is why a new Streets and Spaces Design Guide is

being produced. The guide, to be made available online,

sets out a vision for how the network of streets and public

spaces might look in future, including design principles and

standards for improving them.

The Avon River Precinct, for example, will provide for some

stunning new riverside gathering spaces such as The

Terraces and a promenade running alongside the river.

Residents in the new East Frame neighbourhood will have

an expanse of green space just outside their doors to enjoy,

as well as a large new family playground and park nearby.

The guide will be of particular interest to central and local

government organisations, urban designers, planners,

developers, investors and the wider business sector who

are involved in the rebuild of the central city. Most

importantly, we want people to have a sense of how new

developments can best fit with, or complement, the streets

and public spaces they sit alongside.

One of the most exciting things for me about the rebuild is

the wonderful new public spaces we are going to see spring

up in new projects and developments over the coming

years.

International and national commercial property investors

are turning their focus afresh to the Christchurch

investment market. Their shopping list is relatively

straightforward they want prime stock, quality tenants and

long term leases.

Low interest rates, especially now that the OCR has dipped

to 3.25 percent for the first time in four years, are making

commercial property yields increasingly attractive.

While there was a flight of capital directly post earthquake,

we're certainly experiencing growing demand from

institutions and high net worth individuals in Auckland and

further afield. For instance, NZX listed property funds

manager Augusta Capital Ltd spent $9.4 million on a large

industrial property in Birmingham Drive, Christchurch, which

it is now syndicating. This follows a similarly large purchase

of a property in Branston Street, Hornby, last year. Both

captured a large amount of interest from New Zealand

investors.

And, recent research by Colliers International, reinforces that

New Zealand is emerging as one of the preferred property

markets for global investors. A review of major gateway cities

in the US, Europe, Asia, indicated that prime average yields

were higher in the main cities here.

When comparing some markets and sectors, New Zealand's

average prime investment yields are almost 400 basis points

higher than other countries. Examples include: Hong Kong

CBD office yields at 2.60 percent compared to Auckland's

7.70 percent; London's High Street retail yields of 2.75

percent compared to Auckland's 6.25 percent; and Seoul's

industrial yields of 4.10 percent compared to Christchurch

7.00 percent.

New Zealand's favorable investment conditions for offshore

parties, as well as locals, have led to a strong run in 2014

that pushed aggregate transaction values to record highs.

The aggregate value of sales transactions in New Zealand in 2014 was $6.9 billion. This increases to $8.2 billion if an

additional $1.3 billion in joint venture purchases are added.

Recent offshore discussion with investors about New

Zealand confirms interest is red hot. New Zealand is growing

into an internationally recognised country for its commercial

real estate, and our values are appreciating quickly.

The Canterbury economy remains strong and,

despite the problems faced by our dairy industry,

continues to exhibit positive inputs right across all

facets of economic activity. Canterbury's GDP is one of

the fastest growing in the New Zealand economy. Of

course that is underpinned by direct rebuild activity, but

is also evidence of the flow-on effect of the rebuild to

other areas of our economy, particularly in the service

goods and hospitality sectors.

In addition we have the traditional contributors to our

economy continuing to provide and underpin solid

economic growth. This is reflected in the unemployment

rate of 3.1 percent being half of the New Zealand rate of

6.1 percent and very strong participation in Canterbury's

labour force. We are extremely pleased to see some of

the changing dynamics of our workforce, particularly the

recruitment of females into the construction and build

sectors of the economy being at record levels.

International migration remains high and we expect that

to continue to grow with continuing labour force

constraints and strong continuous rebuild activity. With

the Reserve Bank's announcement of the drop in the

Official Cash Rate from 3.5 percent through to 3.25

percent and the associated softening of the New

Zealand dollar against major trading currencies, we will

see some offset to the decline in dairy through

increased export returns.

Canterbury has an economy that is very much a

microcosm of the New Zealand economy with tourism,

agriculture, manufacturing, and service sectors all

playing their part in ensuring that as the rebuild

continues. It will be underpinned by economic growth

and new opportunities right across our economy.

It is a good time to be in Christchurch and it is a good

time to be investing in future opportunities.

Mark Macauley

Colliers International

Christchurch

General Manager

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There has been a lot of publicity about the recent

change to the Building Act which makes written

building contracts compulsory for all residential

building jobs with a value over $30,000.

The Act introduced a range of consumer protection

measures which apply when a builder agrees to

undertake residential building work for a client. If a builder

fails to comply he/she is potentially subject to a fine.

Whilst many of the new protections do not apply to a

spec builder, building a home for on-sale when

completed, it has not been well publicised that new

warranties implied by the Act do apply to spec builds.

The warranties apply to every spec build. The spec

builder is unable to contract out of them. The benefit of

the warranties also pass to any subsequent home owner

who has purchased from the original purchaser. The

warranty period can be up to 10 years.

The spec builder is required to remedy any breach of

the implied warranties, if it can be remedied, within a

reasonable time. If the spec builder does not do so the

home owner can have the breach fixed by someone else

and recover the costs involved in that from the spec

builder. In some circumstances the home owner can also

obtain damages from the spec builder for any loss they

have suffered.

In addition to the other warranties implied into the sale

contract, the spec builder must also remedy any defects

notified by the home owner within one year of the house

being completed. Once the home owner notifies the

defect to the spec builder it is presumed that the defect

exists and is capable of being remedied, unless the

contrary is proven by the spec builder.

The defects must be remedied within a reasonable time

of notification and once again the home owner can

employ another builder to fix the problem and recover

those costs from the spec builder.

The home owner can also obtain damages from the

spec builder for any loss to the home owner resulting

from the defect that was reasonably foreseeable as likely

to result from it.

There are some limited exclusions and there is some

ability to clarify the limits of the implied warranties. It is

very important that spec builders include additional

clauses in their sale contracts to take advantage of this.

Make sure you obtain advice before you sign any

contract for the sale of your spec build.

Spec Builders Beware

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The duty of good faith in contract law requires

parties to a contract to deal with each other fairly,

honestly, cooperatively and in good faith when

entering into and carrying out a contract. Generally

speaking, an obligation to deal in good faith encourages

positive behaviour from the outset.

The duty is particularly relevant to parties to a

construction contract, where a relationship breakdown can

cause project failure. The duty can either be implied into a

contract by the courts, or be expressly included in a

contract by drafting in a specific duty of good faith

clause. Breach of the duty equates to a breach of

contract, entitling the wronged party to damages.

A requirement that the parties act in good faith may be

an express contractual term in a contract. Although a little

woolly, the courts have been prepared to uphold terms

requiring fair, honest and open dealing on the basis that

by specifically including those words in the contract, the

parties intended them to have some meaning. As to the

content of the good faith obligation the courts have

regarded this as context-specific. For example, a good

faith obligation in a tender contract meant that those

assessing the tender would express their views honestly,

and treat all tenders equally.

Whether the duty of good faith can be implied into a

construction contract is uncertain. Traditionally, the courts

in New Zealand and other common law jurisdictions have

refused to imply such a duty and have only been prepared

to recognise a requirement of cooperation to the extent

necessary to ensure performance of obligations under a

contract. More recently there has been a trend towards

implying the duty in certain types of contract where co-

operation is important and the contract is relational in

nature, for example joint venture, franchise and agency

agreements.

In our view, it is unlikely we will see the duty implied into

construction contracts in New Zealand in the near future. If

parties to a construction contract want the benefit of a

good faith obligation then best practice would be to

include an express requirement in the contract.

For further advice please contact Rebecca Saunders or

Rebecca Cook from Lane Neaves specialist Building and

Construction Team.

Disclaimer: The content of this article is general in

nature and not intended as a substitute for specific

professional advice on any matter and should not be

relied upon for that purpose.

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FEATURE DAVERON SCAFFOLDING

...Continued on next page

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FEATURE DAVERON SCAFFOLDING

...Continued from previous page

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