Architect: Haden Emslie Architecture Ltd
Project Director: Julian Ramsay
Project Description:
This two-storey highly architectural 400 square metre house features several innovative features such as upstand cantilever drag-ties. Built prior to the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence on the banks of the Avon River, this house remained virtually undamaged post-earthquake.
Architect: Patterson Associates Ltd
Project Director: Julian Ramsay
Project Description:
Set against the strong landscape features of Banks Peninsula, the architect was looking for a floating plane roof supported on slim cruciform columns and a super-high finish to over 200 carefully detailed precast concrete elements. The roof is a slender two-way grillage of Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) in the same plane, connected at nodes via a series of custom-made stainless connectors. Ruamoko Solutions worked hard with the architect and contractor to ensure the highest of finishes on this striking architectural statement.
This project has won several prestigious architectural awards. It was a finalist in the 2015 World Architecture Festival in Singapore for the World Building of the Year. These awards are one of the pinnacles of world architecture. Locally, the building won a 2016 New Zealand Institute of Architects Sir Miles Warren Award for Commercial Architecture.
Architect: MAP Ltd
Project Director: Cameron MacPherson
Project Description:
This 1,000 square metre house features concrete blockwork walls, elevated foundations, large gable roof spaces and heavy stone wall cladding.
Project Cost: $15M
Architect: Warren & Mahoney / Foley Group Architecture
Project Director: Julian Ramsay
Project Description:
Three, five storey apartment blocks including basement carparking. Structural features include steel screw-piles to the Riccarton gravel layer, seismic separation joints, Buckling Restrained Brace (BRB) frames, precast concrete floor system and steel/concrete composite floor beams.
Project under construction, due for completion early 2017.
Project Cost: $50M (total)
Architect: Dalman Architecture Ltd
Project Director: Grant Wilkinson
Project Description:
Ruamoko Solutions has a long history of work on this project, having completed six large blocks of retirement accommodation with a combined value of approximately $50 million.
Ruamoko Solutions are continuing work on this exciting project that provides a positive retirement experience for its residents.
Architect: Wilkie + Bruce Architects Ltd
Project Director: Cameron MacPherson
Project Description:
This 1,000 square metre house comprises of two stories above a garage basement and a mixture of insitu and precast concrete, concrete blockwork, steelwork floor and roof support and roof steelwork for large cantilevering roofs. Initial stages of construction involved construction of an elevated earthfill platform (to suit flood plain requirements) and pre-loading to accelerate ground settlement.
Architect: Trengrove Architects Ltd
Project Director: Julian Ramsay
Project Description:
900 square metre house (including terrraces). Structural features include extensive balconies, retained cuts of up to 9m deep into loess soil, 190 thick feature precast panels and concrete block, all centred around a central feature structural spine unit.
Completed in 2009.
Architect: Wilkie + Bruce Architects Ltd
Project Director: Julian Ramsay
Project Description:
This house features stunning views over Pegasus Bay. Construction includes Unispan pre-stressed flooring and concrete blockwork construction set into a hill.
Project Cost: $12M
Architect: Foley Group Architecture
Project Director: Julian Ramsay
Project Description:
This large two-storey retirement accommodation includes residential living, administration and community facilities, chapel areas and amenities.
Stage 1 was built carefully around the existing four-storey block, and stage 2 replaced the old four-storey block that was demolished.
Project Cost: $6M (total)
Architect: Wilkie + Bruce Architects Ltd
Project Director: Grant Wilkinson
Project Description:
Ruamoko Solutions has been involved with the Bishop Julius Hall at the University of Canterbury campus on several projects, including a new sixty-bedroom accommodation block, as well as the earthquake strengthening of the five-storey Nancy Simms block and three-storey Mabel Hendrie block. Strengthening of the Nancy Simms block included an innovative combination of a coupled wall pair with attached eccentrically braced frame coupling element.
Architect: Sheppard & Rout Architects Ltd
Project Director: Julian Ramsay
Project Description:
Highly detailed house with a total floor area approximately 1,200 square metres.
Structural features include floating concrete planes, swimming pool, large standalone self-supporting precast spiral staircase, concrete and steelwork construction, concrete floors and roofs, and steel screw-piles to the Riccarton gravel layer.
Architect: Wilkie + Bruce Architects Ltd
Project Director: Grant Wilkinson
Project Description:
The Mount Peel Station Homestead is a large two-storey brick building constructed in several stages from the late 1800s. Strengthening involved discrete in situ concrete timber diaphragm to wall connections through the brick wythes, roof and ceiling bracing diaphragms, large brick chimney steel support, and helifix ties between the outer double brick wythes and inner single brick veneer. The strengthening work was constrained by on-site conditions and the building’s heritage rating. However, it was completed successfully and with little damage in the 2010/11 Canterbury earthquakes.
Project Cost: $3M
Architect: Richard Proko Ltd
Project Director: Julian Ramsay
Project Description:
This mixed use building was built pre-quakes in an area notorious for liquefaction. As the site was on liquefiable soil immediately adjacent to the Christchurch Estuary, Ruamoko elected to found this precast wall and rib & infill floor building on a gravel raft, which proved a great solution, remaining occupied and functional in an area where many buildings were demolished following the devastating Lyttelton earthquake which had its epicentre not more than 2km from the buildings location. This project features a Bondor panel roof which is also used as a bracing diaphragm for the roof, eliminating the need for steel purlins, cross-bracing, and other supports, to provide an insulated finished ceiling with minimal complication.
Architect: Insight
Project Director: Julian Ramsay
Project Description:
Townhouse development in Timaru comprising predominantly lightweight construction.
Structural features include conventional foundations, concrete block boundary walls, structural steelwork and offset garaging.
Architect: AE Architects
Project Director: Cameron MacPherson
Project Description:
250 square metre house with high level of architectural detail completed in 2014.
Designed with large pavilion roof structure and to meet the bespoke architectural requirements, the structural design was efficient.
Architect: Creative Studios
Project Director: Julian Ramsay
Project Description:
Completed in 2007, this house is located on sand dunes adjacent to a surf beach, which presents inherent challenges regarding foundations and durability.
Building features steel framing, use of exposed weathering timber and carefully designed passive solar heating concrete slab elements.
Project Cost: $3M
Architect: Wilkie + Bruce Architects Ltd
Project Director: Grant Wilkinson
Project Description:
Four-storey, multi-tenancy development with floor plates of approximately 250 square metres for retail, office space and apartments.
Structural features include eccentrically braced frames, precast shear walls with coupled steel beams, precast concrete floor system and steel/concrete composite floor beams.
Architect: Patterson Associates Ltd
Project Director: Julian Ramsay
Project Description:
Set in the stunning Central Otago region, this 620 square metre house utilises local colours and materials and features an open structure designed for the high snow loads in the region.
Project Cost: $5-8M
Architect: F3 Design Ltd, Field Architecture
Project Director: Grant Wilkinson
Project Description:
The complex of buildings on this site offer multiple types of tenancies and provides space for retail, office and residential apartments. The site is made up of nine multi-storey structures, a handful of single-storey structures along with a few linking bridges and walkways and exposed decks.
At the heart of the construction are the modular steel ‘box’ structures which rely on vierendeel truss actions to resist gravity and seismic forces. The buildings have custom engineered Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) floor panels at the upper floors and two-way span precast concrete floors at ground floor.
The project is split up into several phases with phase 1 construction complete, phase two construction ongoing and future phases ready for design. Three of the nine multi-storey buildings are complete and tenanted, with another two buildings currently under construction.