The region’s longest established offsite housing builder Hawke’s Bay Homes has pre-approved building consent designs and plans ‘ready-to-go’ as the region recovers from Cyclone Gabrielle.

Hawke’s Bay Homes based on the outskirts of Hastings has the capability to build 12 houses at a time, using a tried and tested prefabrication build process that was first established by the company in 2004 under its former Cottages NZ brand.

Hawke’s Bay Homes managing director Mark Roil says the business, first started by his parents John and Rose Roil as Cottages NZ, is best placed to help those that have been impacted by the devastating storm.

Hawke’s Bay Homes has 12 designs in its standard range, which range from 1 bedroom to 3 or more bedrooms sized from 50m2 to over 130m2. “There’s been a lot of enquiry from those that have had their homes damaged – either looking for a temporary housing solution or a new permanent home.”

“The rural areas of Hawke’s Bay have been the most significantly hit and for nearly 20 years we have been a large supplier of offsite-built housing, so we are well recognised as a trusted builder of quality homes. “As a local provider, we have built and delivered hundreds of homes across the region, navigating some difficult terrain to get houses on to some remote properties. It’s local experience that makes the difference.”

The Roil’s have long standing relationships with many other local suppliers and sub-contracting businesses like Greg Harman Joinery, Advanced Plumbing, Roofing Direct, Atlas Plasterers, Venta, Hutchinson’s Flooring, Brittins and Freeman Decorators, just to name a few. “We are really proud that we have made long standing relationships with other local businesses and collectively our teams take great pride in that we are building and decorating new homes for locals, many of whom we know and some of which are return customers.

Hawke’s Bay Homes has a new 100m2 show home – a three bedroom, two bathroom monopitch fully furnished design which can be viewed at their premises at 1139 Maraekakaho Road.

Due to the impact of the cyclone Hawke’s Bay Homes reacted quickly and designed some small ‘ready-to-go’ 50m2 temporary houses that can be easily moved onto properties that have been impacted, while a larger home is getting built.

“There’s already been strong interest in our Gwavas 50m2 which has 2 bedrooms, a kitchenette and separate bathroom. For many people, they don’t want to leave their properties, while they decide on their permanent solution. “They can have one or more of the 50m2 builds which easily connected to the existing services such as water and power and once the main dwelling has been repaired or a new home is built the small dwellings can be converted into a permanent rental or as an onsite holiday accommodation income generator.”

Hawke’s Bay Homes presently has four ‘shell-only’ houses sized 50-103m2, which are consented and could be delivered and lived in with quickly. Mark says some customers wanting
a larger home can easily add-on or connect additional buildings or create a more bespoke design based from the tried and tested prefabrication build process.

An alternative option for our clients would be to choose one of our larger models as their new home. Our standard designs are a faster way of getting into a new home but some customers do want a more bespoke solution and we can work with them to either modify a standard design or look at other designs. “Our designs have been refined over recent years and all our clients have input and add their own personalised touches such as colour of external and internal walls as well as fixtures and fittings,’’ Mark said.

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With 50 years on the clock, Hawke’s Bay’s most established local civil construction business Russell Roads is driving forward to being much more than building roads and pavements.

Russell Roads was started by Chris and Ken Russell in 1973 as a small local civil construction business and over the last 50 years it has helped shape roads, walkways, residential and industrial developments across Hawke’s Bay.

The Hastings based business has been on a fast track of growth in recent years, with Robbie and Michelle Gale becoming part owners in 2015 and then taking full ownership in 2019. The step change included amalgamating their business CPM Concrete with Russell Roads with the ambition of becoming a significant player in the civil construction sector.

In 2022 Robbie lured Gavin O’Connor from global leader Stantec to add further professionalism to the operation. Gavin was Stantec’s regional director of national transportation, a role that required significant travel outside of the region. With a young family, Gavin was looking for a new challenge locally. “I’ve been looking for a new opportunity and although I’ve been within large national and multi-national corporates, Russell Roads posed a really exciting opportunity with growth potential for not only myself but all our staff.”

What many don’t know is that Russell Roads is more than just roads and pavements… The business also has an asphalt plant in Omahu Road, two river-based quarries in Stockade Road in Central Hawke’s Bay and Maraekakaho in Hastings along with a newly consented land based quarry at Mohaka Coach Road, north of Napier. Gavin believes that the businesses growth will come as a materials supplier over the next five years. Expansion plans are well underway including a move to a purpose built facility within the next 18 months as well as repositioning the business to align with its service offerings.

“We do more than build roads, we cover the entire supply chain. From rivers to roads is an easy way to explain it. We supply materials for the civil contracting sector, we do 3 waters infrastructure, and we do road and pavement construction. Russell Road’s uses about 10 percent of aggregate materials from the quarries for its own projects, supplying 90 percent to other contractor businesses including a long-term supply contract with Bridgeman Concrete as well as national civil contractor big guns in Fulton Hogan and Downers.

“We expect that the aggregates business will be bigger than the roading business within the next 12 months or so. If you look at our Mohaka quarry, this is a 32 hectare site, which is about 5-10 years of supply into the market. “In Central HB we can extract 150,000 tonne of metal, which is a significant amount and with the recent cyclone damage, we expect a lot of demand.”

Gavin says he was attracted to the family-owned business because of the Gale’s desire to give back to the community as well as provide greater career pathways for their staff, along with profit-share incentives.

“Michelle has established a charitable trust that supports local initiatives while at the end of each year staff receive a bonus payment acknowledging their contribution to the business. “Robbie and Michelle really want to do more for their team than just a job and a wage and extra cash at Christmas is a nice windfall. Another benefit is that due to the bonus being based on profit, it has raised the bar in performance.”

Civil Contractors are regarded as a bit rough around the edges and take a lot of public flack for quality of workmanship. Gavin is acutely aware of this – and ensures that Russell Roads is at the top of its game. He says the company is fortunate to have two of the region’s most experienced project managers, both with over 30 years in the industry. A recent win at the regional civil contractor awards in the over $3m project category for the Flaxmill Inundation remediation was a proud milestone for the company and the project lead Rob Anderson.

“We want to be recognised for quality workmanship and as a local employer and supporter within the community. It’s also really important for us that we have good communications with the property owners where works are being undertaken. “We know it can be a frustrating time and that civil works can be a dusty and noisy operation, so we make sure that we have direct communications with those nearby. “

A good example of this is the new road alignment and round about at the intersection of Crosses Road and Napier Road in Havelock North. We worked really hard to complete this project on time New Napier Road and Crosses Road roundabout with minimal disruption and if there was an issue raised it was acted on quickly.”

Recently there’s been a significant investment in new technology as well as focus on recycling materials and reducing their environmental footprint. “Globally there is a big push on how to re-use materials and we have looked to do this with the St Georges Road realignment, where we have looked to use the existing road materials in the new road.”

Russell Roads has also partnered with a local recycling facility Earthworks Hawke’s Bay for the disposal of old pavements and concrete materials. The new purpose-built facility earmarked to start in 2024 will also have an environmental bent while there’s also thinking underway of energy efficiency at the quarries. In recent months Russell Roads has been at the frontline of the cyclone recovery. Gavin is proud of the role the close to 100 staff have played in their own community, clearing debris and helping reopen access into rural areas as well as being the only operational asphalt plant in the region.

“Everyone has really pulled together to get our communities reconnected.  For the most part the company badges have been left at the door and people have collaborated and worked together to deliver what’s best for the community.”

Going forward into the recovery Gavin says the quarries and asphalt plant will be in high demand with the Mohaka quarry being vital to the reopening of the Napier to Wairoa route. “As a large local employer our people are really keen to be involved and we envisage being a key provider as the response builds momentum.  We have particular strengths in earthworks and pavement build which will be key to the response.”

It all looks promising for Russell Roads as it drives forward into the next half century. www.russellroads.co.nz

 K3 has emerged as a turnkey solution to the ever- growing housing crisis in Hawke’s Bay with its latest move establishing an offsite building facility in the Irongate Industrial zone.

The offsite build facility, officially named Te Whare Tipu, currently has 22 transportable homes under construction either for local Papakāinga or for immediate flood relief housing. K3 chief executive Aayden Clarke says the facility, is a hive of activity with builders, electricians, plumbers, painters and scaffolder teams.

“It’s all go at the facility both inside and outside with builders and other tradies spurring each other on as they build well-designed five star quality housing for our whanau. The houses are of contemporary design but follow an efficient build process that takes about 12 weeks to construct before being transported to properties.”

K3’s broader goal is to provide training, employment and business opportunities for Māori, increasing living standards and income levels.

“K3 is committed to make real progress in building affordable homes for those living in the Kahungunu rohe. We believe all whānau should have the opportunity to live in a warm, dry and beautiful home,” says Aayden.

It currently has 65 apprentices overseen by trades training manager James Thurston as part of the Government’s Māori Trades and Training Fund. Apprentices are connected to one of the 122 Māori and tauiwi (non-Māori) owned business which K3 has partnered or providing business skills support.

“We are focussed on creating career pathways for youth and providing wrap around business support for Māori businesses so that they remain sustainable in a challenging economic environment.”

As well as the modern prefabrication building facility, K3 is building 49 houses for the government’s housing agency Kainga Ora onsite in Maraenui, with two already completed, eight near completion with the remainder to start in coming months. K3 was established in 2019 as a land development entity, sitting under the Ngati Kahungunu Asset Holding Company on behalf of iwi Ngati Kahungunu.

Aayden says K3 is now well established to offer a ‘one stop shop’ to get whanau into new houses across parts of Hawke’s Bay that has been hit hardest by Cyclone Gabrielle.

“We’re ready and it’s obviously more important than ever to have a range of housing solutions that take the pressure off those that were already in transitional or emergency housing as well as for those that have lost their homes due to the cyclone.”

Mr Clarke says K3 will continue to refine their designs and streamline building processes to further fast track whanau into housing. It is also continuing to progress a Government fast track consent for a large 600+ mixed-use affordable housing development on 22 hectares of land adjacent to Maraenui Park.

Development Nous is a growing local multi-disciplinary land consultancy following the merger with well- established Hastings businesses Shanley Surveyors and Design Phase, a leading Structural and Civil Engineering consultancy.

Development Nous was set up by Principal Planner Matthew Holder and Licensed Cadastral Surveyor Karl Carew in 2016 and with strong organic growth over the last 6 years along with significant changes in local body and central government in regard to land use and development opportunities, they are keen to strengthen their locally based one stop offering.

Shanley Surveyors owner Aaron Brittin brought across his team at the end of 2022 while Design Phase’s Kelvin Landon and Rachel Landon, Structural Engineer and 3 Waters Engineer respectively, joined Development Nous around the same time. “Joining forces with these other well established local businesses will provide greater resilience and deepen our professional expertise for the benefit of our clients and their projects.

Collectively our aim is to continue to develop quality and enduring communities,” says Karl. Shanley Surveyors has been surveying land across the many parts of the east coast since 1931,originally established by Harry Davies, Norman Hewkin and Colin Shanley, first known as ‘Davies and Hewkin’ and from 1968 ‘Shanley & Co’.

Aaron was a longstanding employee of Colin Shanley’s for over 30 years before taking over the business in 2020 and rebranding to ‘Shanley Surveyors’. Aaron joins Development Nous as a company Director and Survey Lead. Kelvin says “Design Phase has collaborated on projects with Development Nous for many years therefore it was a logical step to join forces to increase the depth to the senior leadership.”

Kelvin also takes up a company director role. Matthew says “With the recent cyclone and it’s damage across Hawke’s Bay, the region and future land use are
at a historical tipping point and local knowledge and expertise will be vital in the recovery and future prosperity of the region.

Future land use is a priority, and we need to find the right balance of ensuring we have enough land for housing and a growing population while at the same time looking at sustainable productivity across our highly regarded primary sector of horticulture, viticulture and traditional farming.”

Today Development Nous offers professional services in Town Planning, Surveying, Civil and Structural Engineering, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Environmental Consultation and Project Management. Development Nous will continue to be based in their recently built modern office at 502 Karamu Road North, Hastings.

The timing of establishing a new business was far from perfect as we were all still living in a COVID19, it was brave to consider starting a new business, but the rollercoaster ride since for Ultrasound Hawke’s Bay remains rewarding.

When Jody and Rohana Dawson featured in the March 2021 issue of The Profit, they were in the throes of setting up an independent medical diagnostic business in Havelock North.

The couple had rekindled their teenage relationship, reconnecting via social media with Jody subsequently moving home to New Zealand. The couple also decided to ‘elope’ in 2021 marrying at a local Havelock North lodge with only the celebrant and witnesses. It was truly magical after nearly three decades apart.

Jody with over 20 years’ experience as a sonographer, along with Rohana’s administration management background and passion for customer service, had a vision to create a boutique ultrasound clinic that would raise the bar in service and expertise as well as provide faster access to scans and any subsequent medical treatment.

“We’re proud of what we have achieved, despite many setbacks along the way as new business owners. We’ve gone through two COVID19 lockdowns and then Cyclone Gabrielle, but have remained true to wanting to provide a personalised and independent clinic. Since opening in March 2021, Jody has done well over 6000 scans and the couple are now celebrating the recruitment of a new sonographer Jana Furlan, which will enable the couple to have more than a long weekend break.

“It’s been really hectic and this is much to do with the service that we offer. Jody has so much experience and has a fantastic nature with his patients and being a small nimble clinic, we tend to say ‘yes’. “Word about our service has spread, and our customer base has grown, yet we struggled to find an additional sonographer to help, they truly are a rarity!

“But finally, we are fortunate to have found a new sonographer in Jana and like us, she has a similar personality and humour and is also from Gisborne. “Jana is awesome and has not only taken the pressure off Jody, but has also enabled us to have a good break away,” Rohana says.

It’s fair to say that Jody and Rohana have gone the extra mile for their patients over the last 2 years – often opening early or closing late as well as responding to many after hour emails and phone calls. “We have surprised a lot of our patients with our prompt communications. We have contacted some patients who have not even left the doctors yet after the Doctor has used our online referral system. This was something we developed during Covid as it was difficult for patients to collect physical referrals,” says Rohana.

The couple are proud that they have been responsive and got patients on a path to moving through the challenging health care environment in New Zealand. “The quicker patients can get a scan, the faster they are on their treatment and recovery journey.”

“Our referrers really appreciate the service we provide and how quick we see people. We are continually grateful for their loyalty in continuing to refer to us as without them we would not be here.

“The couple are equally proud of being actively involved in the community, both locally in Havelock North but also more widely. They have recently been the major sponsor of a cyclone relief event in Havelock North, helped arrange a new barbeque for the Havelock North Volunteer Fire Brigade (supplied courtesy of Bunnings) and are also a key sponsor of the Hawke’s Bay Magpies.

They even adopted four Kakapo in the Department of Conservation’s breeding programme. “We have really enjoyed being part of the Havelock business community as well as supporting the Magpies and HBRU players”, says Rohana.

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Welcome to Oliver Road – a specialist estate agency focused solely on marketing and negotiating the sale of unique, high-value homes. Founded by Cam Winter in 2017, the firm has established a formidable track record and been responsible for many of the Bay of Plenty’s most notable sales over the past five years. Working exclusively in the top end of the market and representing only a select few properties at any given time, the Oliver Road team is known for delivering a world-class service that includes valuation, pre-market improvements, luxury furnishings, high-impact exposure across national and international markets, and strong negotiation in favour of its clients.

Transacting a total of $280m in property sales and representing an ever-growing list of astute clients including National Party’s Simon Bridges, Tainui & Ngāi Tahu Holdings’ Mike Pohio, AC/DC’s Phil Rudd and best-selling author Chelsea Winter, Oliver Road is now proud to announce the appointment of experienced local real estate professional Nic Goodman as Sales Director of our Hawke’s Bay branch, and to share the first listing in our Summer ’22 Collection – ‘The Gallery’ at 110 Durham Drive, Havelock North.

Nic Goodman

Nic grew up on her family farm in Central Hawke’s Bay and whilst this upbringing no-doubt contributed to her love of the outdoors, it was clear early on that her professional career path would take her off the land and into the city. A degree from Lincoln University lead to a stint on the West Coast of the South Island where she discovered a strong interest in marketing and sales. She continued studying, eventually departing the Coast with a Diploma in Marketing, a passion for sales and an aversion to torrential rain.

After spending time abroad over the next few years, Nic returned to Hawke’s Bay where she worked in a variety of sales and marketing roles and married husband of 25 years, Steve, together raising three children now aged 21, 19 & 16.

In 2013, Nic entered the real estate industry as a Sales Associate with Sotheby’s in Hawke’s Bay. Over the following eight years, she established a formidable track record – winning a number of coveted awards and consistently ranking highly among industry peers both locally and on a national level.

Nic was inspired by international real estate conferences, always exploring new trends, pushing boundaries with marketing, and striving to deliver better outcomes and service to her clients. In more recent years, she focused this attention on high-value real estate and, until recently, held the record of the highest residential sale price in Hawke’s Bay.

Some years ago, Nic identified Oliver Road – as a unique luxury estate agency with exceptional marketing selling high-end homes in Bay of Plenty. She set her sights on bringing Oliver Road to Hawke’s Bay and is proud to have recently formed this exciting partnership. The pairing of Nic’s highly-personable and trustworthy character with Oliver Road’s truly specialist approach to marketing luxury real estate is already proving to be a perfect match. Sellers of Hawke’s Bay’s most fabulous, high-value homes have waited long enough for an agency to deliver world-class service and superior results, needless to say – Nic Goodman & Oliver Road are here to prove that the wait is over.

Positive feedback takes Oliver Road to forefront

• “Oliver Road is without doubt the absolute best in the business.”
• “Their approach was simply extraordinary and beyond compare.”
• “Oliver Road have reimagined the role of a real estate agent.”
• “The most professional agents we have ever dealt with.”
• “We simply cannot recommend them highly enough.”

2022 was a big year for Vet Services, with exceptional client growth, an increase in staff and significant investment revamping the small animals area at its longest established clinic in Waipukurau as well as opening a new super clinic for Napier.

Vet Services Central Hawke’s Bay clinic has had its biggest makeover in over 30 years, doubling the size of the small animal clinic as well as upgrading the staff room, meeting rooms along with a stunning external facelift. The Napier Clinic has gone a step further, relocating from a small clinic 50 metres from the to the new clinic to Napier’s latest large retail park, The Crossing.

To cap off 2022, Vet Services also took out two awards at the Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce Business Awards – the Excellence in Innovation category and the overall Supreme Business of the Year Award, which it had also won in 2012.

Vet Services General Manager Brendan James says the Napier move has been a long term coming and will now offer a much broader suite of services including an onsite production vet service for the rural community. He says there was a lot of luck involved in finding a new site so close, literally a stone’s throw away. Brendan was meeting with the company’s bank when the premises issue was raised and how hard it was to find a new site. Their bank representative promptly mentioned that they were acting for the developers of the proposed large retail park.

“That was such a fortuitous meeting as we had been really struggling to find a new site and we were pretty desperate. There had been fast growth in the clinic due to the increase in companion animals and we just had no room. The Napier clinic has super-sized from 200m2 to 660m2, enabling two surgeries, a larger retail offering, a high tech Xray offering, animal grooming, a laboratory and a meeting room. “We’ve had our staff working on top of each other for some time which was making it hard to deliver the service with the best possible experience.

“Our staff have been looking forward to this day for so long. A lot of thought has gone into the design of both clinics and the Napier clinic has a paint colour palate inspired by American clinics to create a calming influence for cats and dogs.

Brendan says 2022 was a big year across the business that has clinics in Napier, Hastings, Waipukurau, Dannevirke and Masterton and it’s unlikely to slow down with plans for a refit of the Hastings clinic and potentially a new after hour emergency clinic to cater for the wider veterinary community. CHB Clinic gets first major redevelopment in 30 years.

The CHB clinic redevelopment was led by the CHB Farmers Veterinary Club along with Caroline Robertson, who has worked as a vet in Waipukurau for over 30 years along with support from head nurse Jess Neilson. Caroline says the refit was inspired by Vet Services’ modern Dannevirke clinic, which was the “blueprint” along with staff input from visits to other vet clinics around the country.

However, she says the design brief was kept pretty simple,“technically it’s about getting the right flow … it’s a bit like a big kitchen and everything has to be in the right place. The project was more than four years in the making and was on the back of substantial client growth, which escalated over the COVID 19 years as more individuals, couples and families became pet parents. “Small animals are great company and during COVID a lot more people got companion animals and in Central Hawke’s Bay it was no different. Caroline and the team had a very clear idea of what needed to be achieved. “We had already outgrown space due to having a lot more specialist diagnosis equipment, let alone the increased popularity in pets, which has seen us have twice as many people working in that area.

Caroline says the biggest challenge was operating a 24/7 clinic while in construction mode. The project was to become known as a ‘clip on’ in that construction would take place on one side of the building while the other side remained operational and then swapping over. “We’re a 24 hour seven day a week business so there was a lot of planning needed to make sure we could continue to operate and it’s pleasing to look back and see that we achieved that.

The new small animal clinic now has more of everything! There’s a dedicated x-ray and ultrasound room, two surgeries, four consult rooms and a fully functioning laboratory. “There’s also plenty of triage space while the public will notice the cosmetic changes with the buildings external experience getting an overhaul.

About Vet Services

Vet Services was first formed as Central Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Veterinary Club in 1972 with a small clinic in Mt Herbert Road. Until then there was no professional Vet Practice in Central Hawke’s Bay, with the area serviced by a private practitioner based in Hastings and supported by a local chemist. In 1973 the club purchased the present property and it built a clinic that has been added to over time. Today, the business employs over 160 including 40 veterinarians across its five sites offering expert care for companion animals, equine and service farms with sheep, beef, dairy, and deer focusses.  In 2019 we launched an equine focused veterinary service (called VS Equine). The combined skills and knowledge of six equine veterinarians and three techs provide a comprehensive service for both the horse and our clients benefit.