Christmas Holidays

While a little nasty over Christmas the weather really picked up for the last week of my holiday and I hope it did for yours as well.

I caught my first Rainbow Trout on Lake Rotoiti, great fun even if the costs worked out to be around $300.

Waitakere Architects enjoyed a great 2004 with some notable successes, or that’s what we believe

Great ERO Report

It was good of John Davies, Principal of Blockhouse Bay Primary, to drop by and provide a copy of the school’s latest ERO report in which they make comment on the information centre in a very positive light as positively affecting the teaching styles and student outcomes. It is nice to receive positive feedback and feel we are adding value. We have recently completed concept drawings for the School’s next major project, a performing arts centre.

Superloo

Likewise the Kedgley renovation project, including the superloo concept, has been very well received and was featured in the last Ministry of Education’s Auckland Network Team publication November 2004.

Many others have adopted this idea because it is economical sense and gives a solution much wider than just a toilet upgrade. We have completed a like development at Mangere College and we are pleased to have very positive feedback from students regarding safety and hygiene.

Superloo

Glen Eden

Our work at Glen Eden Intermediate is going well, with Stage 1 opening next week and stage two under way, this also incorporates a superloo concept.

Permanent Relocatables

And a new approach to “What do we do with those relocatable classrooms” where to date most have looked to have them removed and replaced. At Glen Eden we are making the relocatables permanent, a totally different approach and we will report on this in the future.

Admin Opening

The new admin/staff amenity at Rosehill Intermediate opens this week also and we believe is a great value for money improvement to the School.

Building Replacement

The building replacement policy application by Avondale Intermediate is with the Ministry of Education and we are hopeful this will be successful and will give a sensible solution to Rota and his staff and pupils in 2005.

10 Year Plans

We are continuing to prepare our written revisions of the 10 Year Plan and these are very well received and easier to understand thankfully. Certainly comments from auditors and others are most positive, we would be pleased to assist with yours.

We hope you all enjoyed a great break and we look forward to continuing to bring you our specialist architectural school services in 2005.

News Letter Part 2

Can you believe 2004 is gone and we are zooming into 2005 already.

Thanks to you all, Waitakere Architects have enjoyed a very successful year already with many projects we have been extremely pleased to have been involved in. It is great to feel we are making a difference.

We have put a lot of effort into developing further our quality management processes and to raising the bar in the delivery of construction documentation, and believe our service in this area is now as good as the best available and we will continue to improve and refine the processes and undertake regular reviews.

Likewise the delivery of construction observation and contract administration continues to improve and this has required a big effort to come up to speed with new construction contract regulations.

It is comforting to see over 95% of our projects completed on time and 100% on budget, given clients’ changes are not included, and when this has occurred clients have made decisions directly themselves with all relevant information provided.

We have worked on many projects of note.

We have renewed our involvement with retirement home projects and enjoyed these immensely, it is funny how “The Trendy” companies in this area of the market have been fired for their big reputation and now a number of past customers have engaged us to “sort it out” so as to speak.

The fuel industry continues to develop and we were the Architects to Progressive Countdown Hamilton in the development of their new Countdown Petrol outlet associated with the supermarket. Overseas experience indicates that this direction will continue, hopefully we can mention our involvement and develop further some of the environmental aspects of these interesting projects.

Our involvement with schools continues to be a passion and we have enjoyed our immense workload in this field.

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