78 | Kiwi Sheds From sheds to aircraft hangars T T Kelly Deeks BUILDING Proudly New Zealand owned and family operated since 1998, Kiwi Sheds has provided thousands of Kiwis with great looking, durable sheds to serve the needs of their business, their farm, or their family. Kiwi Sheds has a product offer that ranges from garages and workshops to lifestyle barns and implement sheds and on to the larger more commercialised storage facilities, warehousing, and aircraft hangars. Rob Gauld and his team at Kiwi Sheds have noticed an emerging trend in the past few years of clients with rural property and a bit of financial backing putting up multiple sheds for other small businesses to operate from. “There’s a real need for small businesses to get out of the hustle and bustle of traffic and congestion in the city and locate their business rurally,” Rob says. “It’s a really great way of getting away from the high cost of setting up a business inside the city area and if they need to work in town, they can travel to town and then come back to a reasonably serene working environment.” Kiwi Sheds is working with several key clients on ongoing rural business park type developments which keep on growing to meet this demand. A current project has its 10th Kiwi Shed now being installed and the 11th is set to start in January/February. These are all reasonably sized buildings with the current one 35mx18m and several previous buildings up to 50m long. “We work closely alongside land owners to navigate the minefield of inordinate compliance issues from councils who seem to struggle with the concept of letting people use their land for meaningful purposes,” Rob says. Your Business, Your Industry, Your News. Each edition priority delivered to your door. i i i i li . www.waterfordpress.co.nz/subscriptions . t f . . / i ti 03 983 5525 Stay informed; we work with business owners and decision-makers across all economic sectors, profiling their success. t i f r ; r it i r i i - r r ll i t r , r fili t ir . businessnorth Rural property owners have been building multiple sheds for other small businesses to operate from. “There’s a real need for small businesses to get out of the hustle and bustle of traffic and congestion in the city and locate their business rurally.” GREAT SHEDS EST. 1998 Custom designed, durable, steel framed 0800 45 49 47 | 0220310402 | sales@kiwisheds.co.nz PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATEDWITH KIWI SHEDS Suppliers of an extensive range of roo ng and cladding pro les, metal tiles, metal fencing and composite ooring. Also the most comprehensive range of purlins and top hat sections manufactured in New Zealand. 24-26 Trugood Drive • P: 09 273 2820 • E: orders.akl@metalcra roo ng.co.nz Visit us online at www.metalcra roo ng.co.nz “We try to show councils that our clients aren’t trying to destroy the land, they are trying to work with the land to achieve a common result - and that’s progress.” Rob says the rural business park/storage facility is a great concept that needs to be embraced and allowed to grow as quickly as possible. “It is great for small and medium sized businesses and great for the economy, allowing people to stay in business, reduce their overheads, reduce traffic congestion, and work from a less stressful and complex environment.” Kiwi Sheds is one of the original steel shed building companies that first came on to the marketplace in the late 1990s. Part of the Fair Dinkum Sheds group, one of the largest networks of Cold Formed Steel Building distributors in Australasia, the initial design and systems utilised by Kiwi Sheds’ was tried and tested in Australia. Rob says while the Aussies would typically knock up a shed quickly and cheaply, the New Zealand market was a bit more particular about the quality of the finished product. So Kiwi Sheds evolved with the market and the concept of a shed building company changed rapidly in its first 10 years of being in New Zealand. “We’ve achieved pretty good quality here in comparison to what’s going on across the ditch. “We adapted to our market’s needs, we expanded the range and the type of buildings, we became very flexible in our offering, and we maintain that quality with everything we build today.”
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