| 65 Kiwi Cladding CONTRACTING Excellence in Cladding INSTALLERS IN NEW ZEALAND AND THE PACIFIC T T Virginia Wright Cladding adds the extra dimension Kiwi Cladding services architectural and construction projects across New Zealand and the Pacific. Below, the award-winningSurf Life Saving Club Tower in Piha. Brogan and Victoria Hill, the owners and directors of Auckland-based Kiwi Cladding, had been looking for something they could do together when they bought the company seven years ago from people they had met through boating. Victoria came from 17 years at Fonterra, where for her last eight years she was business operations manager running the international online milk auction platform, Global Dairy Trade (GDT). Her world-class expertise in logistics, supply chain management and scalable business administration dovetails beautifully with Brogan’s complementary skills in physical fabrication and design expertise that he built up over 10 years managing boat-building businesses, backed up with 17 years of professional signwriting. Specialising in high-quality aluminium composite material (ACM) and architectural cladding products, Kiwi Cladding - which is now celebrating its 20th anniversary - services architectural and construction projects across New Zealand and the Pacific. Operating out of their main factory in Henderson, Brogan, Victoria, and their highly skilled and experienced team will achieve whatever their clients need with any of the cladding products at their disposal, using only the highest-quality products, fabricated to precise specifications and installed with precision, efficiency and competitive cost-effectiveness. Combining multiple different claddings to impressive effect is something of a trademark, and can be seen both inside and outside the multi-million-dollar redevelopment of Auckland’s 277 Westfield Newmarket, where Kiwi Cladding delivered high-performance, non-combustible aluminium cladding systems that combined safety, durability, and modern architectural design. Another significant project is the award-winning Te Mahurehure Cultural Marae in Point Chevalier, where Kiwi Cladding helped bring an architecturally and culturally important vision to life. The project received industry recognition for its design excellence and community significance, highlighting Kiwi Cladding’s ability to work collaboratively on meaningful and technically complex builds. The results clearly show the level of skill and attention to detail that Kiwi Cladding brings to their design and the careful installation that is an essential part of achieving the finished project to the desired level. “We aim to make buildings aesthetically pleasing to the eye, and installing the cladding with absolute precision is part of that,” says Victoria. “We want buildings to look amazing, because that’s what everyone sees, and we love the product. “Aluminum’s great for New Zealand conditions because it doesn’t rust, even if it’s close to water, it’s versatile, you don’t have to paint it, and it has a warranty of 25 years.” Kiwi Cladding mostly installs products on larger commercial buildings, such as apartment blocks, hotels, retirement homes, and schools. They know their product range inside out and the different applications it can be used for. Whether it’s a Surf Life Saving Club Tower in Piha (that won an award), or one of the many larger-scale projects they do for their repeat tier 1 and tier 2 companies, Kiwi Cladding can be counted on to achieve the sort of signature statement they have built their reputation on. Their passion and professionalism has brought them clients from all over New Zealand and through the Pacific.
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