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From Wisconsin in the United States, Sub-Zero & Wolf, is currently the world's most premium kitchen appliance brand, distributed in New Zealand by Eurotech Design. Sub-Zero represents its refrigeration range, while Wolf represents its cooking appliance range.
As the New Zealand distributor for Germany's BRAVAT bathroom products and China's Midea, Argus Engineering provides customers throughout New Zealand with unparalleled products and services, including smart buildings, lifts, residential and commercial air conditioning, bathroom fittings, complete home fit-outs and household appliances.
In 1923, a young British man named Val Barfoot walked into a shabby little shop in Newmarket. The land agency he bought for just 75 pounds became Barfoot & Thompson's first branch. Maurice Thompson joined in 1934, and 6 years later the company was renamed Barfoot & Thompson, the name it retains today.
PlaceMakers is a leading supplier of building materials and equipment in New Zealand. From Kaitaia at the northern end of the North Island to Invercargill at the southern end of the South Island, PlaceMakers has 62 stores across New Zealand, along with 8 timber frame and truss manufacturing plants nationwide. These can deliver directly to building sites throughout the country, substantially reducing customers’ financial and time costs.
The emergence of the COVID pandemic, rapid technological advances and changes in our living environment… profound changes are quietly taking place in how people live and inhabit their homes.
One of New Zealand’s largest and most influential construction industry events, the New Zealand International Building Expo and Summit was first held in 2017. As a co-organiser with more than 20 years’ experience organising exhibitions and conferences, 3A Events became involved in planning and establishing NZIBES in 2016. Drawing on its experience and strengths, it has taken on much of the work of delivering the event and can rightly be regarded as a founding participant.
Ask any Chinese professional in New Zealand’s property and construction sectors what major event took place on 6 August 2021 and the 7, and they will give the same answer: the 2021 New Zealand International Building Expo and Summit (NZIBES). Even more remarkably, this was far more than a celebration for industry insiders. It is no exaggeration to say that half of Auckland’s Chinese community was stirred by the event, which also prompted Auckland’s mayor to warmly acknowledge the contribution of Chinese construction professionals, and the wider Chinese community, to New Zealand society.
As the largest gathering of New Zealand’s Chinese property and construction industry, the New Zealand International Building Expo & Summit (NZIBES) is widely known. Its organiser, the New Zealand Chinese Building Industry Association (NZCBIA), is content to work behind the scenes, focusing on the effort rather than the rewards. Yet this approach often brings even greater rewards: the tremendous success of five editions of NZIBES is the best proof.
The annual industry showcase, the New Zealand International Building Expo & Summit (NZIBES) 2021, concluded successfully on 7 August at Vodafone Events Centre. This year’s event was organised by the New Zealand Chinese Building Industry Association (NZCBIA), with 3A Events and MultiMarketing as joint supporting organisers.
This is Auckland’s ninth week since entering lockdown in August. Over the past two months, predictions and gloomy commentary about lockdown driving down house prices and damaging the market have been relentless. Yet the data make the strongest case:
Architectural feng shui, one of the three pillars of ancient Chinese architectural theory, is its spiritual core and holds an esteemed place in China’s architectural history. As society has developed, feng shui practice in many parts of China has come to focus on comprehensive feng shui planning for large urban precincts and planning throughout the property development process.
With New Zealand's property market booming, and the pandemic and construction costs proving unpredictable, we think it is time to discuss an age-old property investment question: should you build a new home or buy an existing one?