| 95 LIFESTYLE Arvida Group Ltd: Queenstown Country Club Queenstown Country Club offers spacious two and three-bedroom homes that make the most of the community’s stunning position between Frankton and Lake Hayes. Christchurch based Kobe Construction is proud to have played an important role in delivering Arvida Group’s stunning Queenstown Country Club clubhouse. Designed by Warren and Mahoney Architects the project won silver at the Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Design Awards. Kobe Construction was the builder of choice as it has quickly established a reputation for its strongly technical and more bespoke construction capability in the commercial sector. It has particularly become a leader in the construction of buildings that significantly incorporate ‘mass timber', a category of engineered wood products typically made of large, solid wood panels, columns or beams manufactured o -site for load-bearing wall, floor, and roof construction. These include laminated veneer lumber (LVL), glulam, cross-laminated timber (CLT) and other elements. The Queenstown Country Club clubhouse project is a good example. Glulam timber structure is used throughout in building in place of steel - a sustainability move. The interior features a unique slatted timber ceiling and exposed roughhewn timber truss work with timber wall panelling. “We are really orientated towards a sustainable approach to construction, that's why we are in the mass timber glulam and CLT space, obviously it's o ering better construction solutions not necessarily just for the environment but the whole process of construction on site,” says Kobe Timber construction a winner Construction owner Blair (Blu) Tipler. The building philosophy also o ers the ability to take advantage of prefabricated, o - site processing and the subsequent assembly on-site creating massive e ciencies in construction, says Blu. The wider landscape is the Government's wood-first initiative. Along with the carbon sequestration benefits attributed to solid wood, it seeks to encourage the use of wood as a primary construction material in new government buildings of up to four levels, to attract investment, and to create jobs in the sector. Mass timber componentry for a project is designed using CAD (Computer Aided Design), and Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Kobe Construction's innovation is to use these tools and the 3D modelling generated on-site in its own construction process. “From this we assemble and build the buildings to a level of accuracy that has not previously been able to be done and that's really only available because we are using the BIMmodels actually for construction purposes, not just for design.” Blu says Kobe Construction is looking to create this approach as an industry standard on how to build these types of buildings. “Mass timber construction is in its infancy in its design in New Zealand and based on our building code and our earthquake standards, our construction model is di erent to the rest of the world. It's a pretty exciting space moving forward.”
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