Our Story Your Story - Waikato Business News 25 Years
It’s a proud moment for any company to stand up and say ‘we have been serving our business community for more than 25 years’. That is the case with Waikato Business News. In that time our editors have featured many strong and exclusive stories covering the exciting business within the region, and we have built up a loyal group of advertising supporters. In our special feature “Our story Your story - 25 years” we cast our eye back over a quarter-century of business in the Waikato, and we profile many of the business leaders well known in the community, who make our region a shining light in the country.
It’s a proud moment for any company to stand up and say ‘we have been serving our business community for more than 25 years’.
That is the case with Waikato Business News.
In that time our editors have featured many strong and exclusive stories covering the exciting business within the region, and we have built up a loyal group of advertising supporters.
In our special feature “Our story Your story - 25 years” we cast our eye back over a quarter-century of business in the Waikato, and we profile many of the business leaders well known in the community, who make our region a shining light in the country.
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Pencarrow House -Tamahere, <strong>Waikato</strong><br />
PLACEMAKING for people<br />
People and community are<br />
at the heart of Hamiltonbased<br />
PAUA Architects and<br />
their designwork.<br />
NZ Clean Energy Centre - Taupo<br />
These have also been driving values for<br />
principal architect Antanas Procuta since<br />
his return to the <strong>Waikato</strong> <strong>25</strong> years ago and<br />
these values have seen the practice being<br />
commissioned a range of standout projects.<br />
The ‘people and community’ approach saw<br />
PAUA Architects focus on creating a sense<br />
of neighbourhood when masterplanning the<br />
Jack’s Landing development near Rotoroa<br />
(Hamilton Lake), and PAUA is taking the same<br />
attitude to a village development with the Brian<br />
Perry Charitable Trust using modular homes.<br />
A similar project awarded through a design<br />
competition is a sustainable mixed-use<br />
neighbourhood in Taupō. With about 60<br />
households and a commercial centre with half<br />
a dozen shops, and apartments above, it was<br />
to be an exemplar development for the council<br />
using a concept of neighbourhood enclaves,<br />
as well as environmental strategies throughout<br />
the design.<br />
“This idea of community is very important,”<br />
Antanas says. “It's really about creating<br />
identity and enhancing a sense of ‘home’.<br />
Too often what happens with housing<br />
developments is there's no sense of character<br />
or neighbourliness.<br />
“Architecture is ultimately about people and the<br />
way we live - it's really important to remember<br />
that it's not foremost about buildings.”<br />
Taupō is also the site for the NZ Clean<br />
Energy Centre, which reflects PAUA’s strong<br />
environmental interest - “a common thread<br />
through all our work”.<br />
A building to both showcase clean energy<br />
- such as bio-fuels - and to provide a base<br />
for clean energy research organisations,<br />
the Clean Energy Centre was built using<br />
recycled concrete and primarily heavy timber<br />
construction rather than steel.<br />
Heat is drawn via a ground-source heat-pump<br />
from below the building, and the facility uses<br />
solar and wind power.<br />
The Clean Energy Centre is another example of<br />
a project PAUA Architects has won through a<br />
design competition, and Antanas is proud that<br />
the practice does well against much larger firms<br />
in such competitions.
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