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2 National Awardsfor Taranaki FirmYou know you’re doing something right whenyour company takes out two of the six nationalawards on offer in your industry.Aluminium Taranaki Ltd won theresidential award in the $15,000- $50,000 category, and also theEco Award, in the annual WindowAssociation of New Zealand awards.Both jobs gave Aluminium TaranakiLtd a chance to work outside normalparameters and come up with innovativeconcepts that aren’t usually required inthe majority of builds in the region.ATL Managing Director, Hamish NealeRESIDENTIAL AWARDOf the house they worked on (theBuckley home at Tapuae Estate), ATLManaging Director, Hamish Neale saysthe design offered by Glenn Brebner thearchitect, demanded great attention todetail.“These types of projects don’t comearound that often in Taranaki so it wasgreat to be able to show our diversity andapply our expertise to an amazing houselike this, and in such a beautiful location.”ATL needed to work closely with theclient and the architect to achieve thedesired door detailing. They also neededto close in the building quickly, giventhat the whole of the north and westelevations were glazed elements, totalingan area of 67 square metres!Much of that glazing was encased inlarge cedar panels sliding on aminimalist single track system thatoffered a level threshold from the houseto the surrounding timber decks. ATL hadto think hard about issues like drainage,performance of the sliders and lockingability, resistance to high winds andweather tightness, as well as preservingas much of the sea views from the houseas they possibly could.“The client has an affinity for coloursand I believe we worked well togetherto pull together a beautiful home. Thedark bronze anodizing, bronze tinteddouble glazing and cedar doors blendin fantastically together and with thesurrounding landscape,” says Hamish.“ATL always go that extra distance,”says Glenn Brebner, the architect for theproject. “They are never shy of bringingtheir expertise to outside the squarethinking. Their knowledge of commercialand residential applications cametogether well on this project.”ECO AWARDATL’s work on three glazed lightwells inPowerco’s new offices, had the judges atWANZ commenting that the innovationinvolved took the project “into therealms of biospheric architecture.Introducing light, ventilation, rain andnaturally growing bamboo reaching forthe sky, into the heart of this convertedwarehouse, has produced an inspiredhigh-precision use of aluminium joinery.”The three lightwell towers eachmeasured 1700mm square andextended 8.5 metres from floor levelto penetrations through the roof andsupported on an external steel structure.Environmentally sustainabledesign was important to the clientand aluminium was the naturalmaterial choice as an environmentallysustainable resource.“The primary challenge in this project,was the need to glaze the system fromthe inside, as it simply wasn’t possible tosafely glaze this system from the outside(ie: inside the lightwells),” says Hamish.“This brought about the complicationof having to reverse the drainage system,requiring meticulous care in the preassemblyof the frames in the shop, andagain at the onsite installation.”They also had to come up with asolution that was robust enough for thebuild, and ensure that the movementsrequired for ventilation, wouldn’tinterfere with other critical aspects ofthe structure.“Aluminium Taranaki were thorough inworking through the critical details priorto manufacturing commencing whichallowed a consistent process throughto installation,” says Jason Lawrence ofArchitectural Profiles Ltd, who workedwith them on this project.Architect, Murali Bhaskar of BGBBTAadded,“ATL delivered a high quality projectthat looks great and performs brilliantly.”53a Rimu Street, Fitzroy New Plymouth 4312 06 758 5411 aluminiumtaranaki@xtra.co.nz www.aluminiumtaranaki.co.nz