“There’s a lot of talk in the industry about prefabrication. With a 50-year history traceable back to the origins of frame & truss and Gang-Nail in 1967, enter MiTek ( and MD, Richard Poole, who hasn’t been around quite that long, but has clearly been waiting to get something off his chest. this year they’ve just backed up a step and said ‘I’m not going to take so much on’.” “I hate to think how many hours some of these guys work trying to get work completed that they’ve committed to. You know when you have a lot of lean years you don’t want to say no.
“Last year we saw too many construction companies and builders take on too much. In Hamilton, Mike van der Hoek, MD at Thomsons ITM ( was another to talk about a softer market when we talked pre-Election, but for different reasons. “Funny that you see a few more builders fall over in good times than in bad times,” he adds. Blake Bibbie also confirms that some PlaceMakers customers are “having trouble getting projects started and getting slabs in the ground because of the weather.”ĭelays with smaller builders have a tendency to impact all the way along the value chain but hit hardest in terms of their cash flow.īlake Bibbie confirms: “With this bad weather the length of time to construct a house has grown and that’s impacted on progress payments and that’s impacting on their cash flow. Whereas business is also “surging ahead” in Blenheim and Nelson, the market has “come off the boil a little bit” in Wellington and it’d be putting a positive spin on things to describe the Christchurch housing market right now as flat.īack to the weather. So, what about this case for upping the intellectual if not financial investment in frame & truss, faced with a softening housing market?įirst, let’s get some feedback from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.īlake Bibbie, GM National Sales & Manufacturing at PlaceMakers ( reports: “Orders continue to be strong in Auckland and the Bay of Plenty and Tauranga and very strong in Central Otago.”
Greater use of BIM (Building Information Modelling).More use of panelised (off-site) construction.On the back of a report compiled for the World Economic Forum by Boston Consulting Group, singled out for attention (along with better skills training and collaboration between procurer and contractors) were two things that directly affect the frame & truss industry:
To view a PDF of the complete feature as it appeared in NZ Hardware Journal magazine, click the download button at the bottom of this page.Īt the RMBA’s recent “Constructive” forum, attendees and speakers focused on key areas that would promote productivity in construction.
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