COLORSTEEL® Awards winners announced for 2023

From residential dwellings to industrial builds, COLORSTEEL® has been used extensively throughout New Zealand for greater than 40 years, defending the locations Kiwis reside, work and play.

To have fun the professionals throughout Aotearoa who showcase distinctive use of COLORSTEEL® merchandise, the COLORSTEEL® Awards had been launched in 2019 celebrating the unimaginable workmanship, meticulousness, ardour and collaboration of roofers, designers, architects, builders and COLORSTEEL®’s roll-forming companions.

Of judging the design classes Residential Constructing of the 12 months and Business Constructing of the 12 months, decide Lindley Naismith mentioned “We had been searching for total design excellence and the contribution of the COLORSTEEL® merchandise used when it comes to that. We assessed the entries in opposition to a variety of elementary architectural design standards resembling response to context, proof of a robust underlying thought, imaginative use of supplies, texture and color, clever development detailing and calibre of the workmanship.”

Whereas for the roofing classes, Graham Moor defined what the judges had been searching for after they visited the tasks: “We’re actually making an attempt to see how a lot craft the roofers put into their work. It’s how properly they’ve executed what’s put in entrance of them, and the accuracy that goes with it. One thing that actually stands out is after they’ve improvised with the product, the place they’ve needed to adapt.”

JUDGES:

The professional judging panel consisted of:

• Ken Crosson, Director, Crosson Architects
• Lindley Naismith, Co-Founder, Scarlet Architects
• Graham Moor, CEO, Roofing Affiliation of New Zealand (RANZ)
• Mark Bishop, Managing Director, Roof Protected NZ
• Rod Newbold, Buyer & Market Purposes, Specialist, New Zealand Metal.

The winners in every class had been introduced on the COLORSTEEL® Awards on seventh October on the Auckland City Corridor, to a lot enthusiasm and applause.

WINNERS:

COLORSTEEL® Supreme Roofer Of The 12 months
Hartmut Reichelt, Building Connection And Consultancy

COLORSTEEL® Residential Constructing Of The 12 months
Hyndman Taylor Architects With Kanuka Residence

COLORSTEEL® Business Constructing Of The 12 months
JTB Architects With Te Noninga Kumu – Motueka Public Library

COLORSTEEL® Roofer Of The 12 months Trapezoidal Profile
Tony Adams And Jordan Gill, Peak Roofing Otago

COLORSTEEL® Roofer Of The 12 months Corrugate Profile
Courtney McDowell, Consideration To Element Roofing

COLORSTEEL® Roofer Of The 12 months Tray Profile
Hartmut Reichelt, Building Connection And Consultancy

COLORSTEEL® New Roofer Of The 12 months
Liam Williams, Status Roofing & Plumbing

COLORSTEEL® Service To Roofing
Frank Thomas, The Roofing Specialists 

RESIDENTIAL BUILDING OF THE YEAR

Kanuka Residence
by Hyndman Taylor Architects

The undertaking options COLORSTEEL® TidalDrift® Matte, used each for the roofing and components of the cladding. Not solely does the mid-tone gray complement the opposite supplies specified, together with the outside tiles, it additionally helps scale back glare and reflectivity. The roof kinds are a group of three hips that soften the peak to neighbours and generate loft in the principle occupied areas.

One of many key components of success for this successful undertaking was the shut collaboration between Hyndman Taylor Architects and the roofer, Hartmut Reichelt. Hartmut additionally occurs to be the winner of each the Roofer of the 12 months — Tray Profile in addition to total Supreme Roofer of the 12 months. Decide Ken Crosson famous: “It was a superbly crafted house however a superbly crafted, technically competent constructing as properly. The standard of workmanship sat properly in opposition to the standard of the structure.”

COMMERCIAL BUILDING OF THE YEAR

Te Noninga Kumu – Motueka Public Library
by JTB Architects

The consumer transient known as for neighborhood areas, connection to the close by reserve, and a sustainable constructing that referenced its location. Impressed by the normal, purposeful types of rural farm buildings discovered within the Tasman area, the library takes its visible cues from iron-clad horticultural barns and storage sheds. COLORSTEEL® in wealthy Pioneer Pink references the purple ochre pigment of kōkōwai, mined domestically in Golden Bay. With a robust deal with vitality environment friendly design, the 1,100m2 library now produces a surplus of 151kWh/m²/12 months from roof-mounted photovoltaic panels, which fits again to onsite battery storage or to the grid.

By minimising upkeep required, the sturdy COLORSTEEL® cladding additional contributes to the library’s sustainability. Decide Ken Crosson mirrored on his and Lindley Naismith’s number of the winner: “We had been very engaged by the library as a result of it had fairly a fancy context, it had a fundamental highway, it had a laneway by way of the positioning and it had a park behind it. We thought the materiality was very partaking and the color had a really regional context. Their use of house, their use of air flow, their use of low-carbon supplies, and the powering of it by way of photo voltaic vitality was very aspirational.”

Learn a full characteristic article on his undertaking right here.

For extra data on the Awards and to be taught concerning the successful tasks, click on right here.