Investing in those with proposals

to better the construction industry.

Funding the future

The NZIOB Charitable Trust Awards

The NZIOB Charitable Trust Awards were established in 2017 by the New Zealand Institute of Building Charitable Trust to support worthy individual endeavors for the betterment of the construction industry.

“This NZIOB scholarship opened doors for international collaboration and will have enduring impact on our research and education.“
2017 NZIOB Charitable Trust Award winner, Robyn Phipps (Professor in Construction, Massey University)

“Winning this scholarship was a vital step and huge motivator to push the research to the next stage and has literally changed my career path.”
2017 NZIOB Charitable Trust Award winner, Ged Finch (MArch student at VUW)

“How the NZIOB Charitable Trust Award has transformed what Ged could achieve in his Masters is incredible. I believe it has set him up as a potential contributor to the transformation of our industry.”
Mike Donn, Director, Centre for Building Performance Research, VUW

The 2019 NZIOB Charitable Trust Awards

The winner of 2019 NZIOB Charitable Trust Awards wasannounced at the New Zealand Building Industry Awards Ceremony & Dinner on Friday the 23rd of August 2019.

The 2019 recipient of the $10,000 cash prize was:

Armano Papageorge

Armano Papageorge is a PhD student from Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Architecture.

The judges considered Armano’s entry to be particularly relevant to the advancement of an area that is likely to play a significant role in future – namely that of 3D printing in concrete construction and how it can be applied in a New Zealand context, notably to our current codes and practices.

Proposed Use of the award:

The $10,000 cash award will fund research into how 3D printing can influence and optimise different architectural and structural systems. It will fund Armano’s continued research with New Zealand’s Innovation Agency (Callaghan Innovation) that, with the use of their technical equipment, will develop a 3D printing workflow to produce structural concrete wall elements.

The award will also allow Armano to procure software and equipment to develop his systems and to engage with local consultants to further his research. It will also enable him to visit Eindhoven University of Technology and other industry contacts in the Netherlands where the knowledge base of 3D printing is rapidly growing and is in wider use than here in New Zealand.

The 2018 NZIOB Charitable Trust Awards

The winners of 2018 NZIOB Charitable Trust Awards were announced at the New Zealand Building Industry Awards Ceremony & Dinner on Friday the 24th of August 2018.

The 2018 recipients of the two $10,000 cash prizes were:

Emma Fell

Emma Fell is a Master of Architecture (Professional) student from the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington.

Emma is researching the design and development of a prefabricated building envelope system for mass timber construction using cross-laminated timber (CLT). The system uses specially designed proprietary joints specific to different types of cladding. Emma proposes to use the NZIOB Award to fund a full-scale prototype using CLT and the building elements necessary to assess the viability of the system. The resultant research has the capability to revolutionise prefabrication in New Zealand.

Emma noted in her application that in the current climate of KiwiBuild and concern for smarter building solutions, the proposed prefabricated envelope system, once optimised, offers the possibility of off-site fabrication, followed by delivery to the site, and quick erection without scaffolding. The optimised design and process could lead to an immense reduction of overall construction time and costs.

Proposed Use of the award:

The research is being conducted at the School of Architecture at Victoria University in Wellington. This thesis examines the design and development of a prefabricated building envelope system for mass timber construction using Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT).

The system is devised of specially designed proprietary joints specific to different types of cladding. The exploration process includes constantly fabricating to test the iterative schemes. Directly in the midst of Kiwibuild and ‘smarter’ building solutions, this prefabricated envelope system, the final designed envelope system is optimised and fabricated off-site, delivered to the site, and erected quickly without scaffolding. The design and process results in an immense reduction of overall construction time and costs, improving New Zealand’s construction sector.

The funding will be used to construct a full-scale prototype using CLT and correct building elements (insulation, cavity battens, waterproofing membranes etc.) to test the viability of the solution. A 1:1 test helps to validate the scheme, creating the foundation of research that can be used to revolutionise prefabrication within New Zealand.

Mikayla Heesterman

Mikayla Heesterman is a Master of Architecture (Professional) student from the School of Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington.

Mikayla has been inspired by traditional Japanese timber architecture, which used intricately carved timber-only connections. Such connections are structurally successful and aesthetically beautiful, but as Mikayla notes in her application, their complexity makes them time-consuming and difficult to make.

By using pioneering industrial robotic arm technology Mikayla proposes that it will be possible to fabricate more complex designs than is usually possible with existing wood-working machinery. The ultimate aim is to produce an accessible database of new construction designs, with relevant structural information for different applications, that can be easily selected, personalised and produced.

Proposed Use of the award:

This award would be used to buy material and equipment required to advance the research. While CLT offcuts have generously been provided by XLam for free, tests with glulam would enable structural analysis to be undertaken. Receiving this award would allow glulam to be purchased for fabrication.
The robot lab within Victoria University is slowly growing, as we develop new processes and expand. However, as it is still relatively small there is often new equipment that needs to be purchased. For example, this project requires a wide range of router bits to achieve different cuts, which often get worn or snapped. Having the money to buy these expensive but vital pieces of equipment will ensure the research can continue developing at pace.
The hiring of structural testing facilities and structural engineer consultation.
The purchase of structural simulation software to help in the design feedback loop.
The research has currently been accepted to the Sigradi International Conference in Brazil and is under consideration for the Autodesk University Conference in Las Vegas, both in early November. While Victoria University can provide some funding towards travel for conferences, travel between Brazil and Las Vegas would be at a personal cost.
This award would allow me to present this innovative research at two leading conferences, where the cutting-edge work being done in New Zealand would be on display. This experience would undoubtedly provide opportunities to learn and partner with world experts, which would further this research.
Through purchasing equipment and travel, the NZIOB Charitable Trust Award will be used to continue advancing this research, which supports innovative sustainable construction solutions which improve the industry.

The 2017 NZIOB Charitable Trust Awards

The 2017 recipients of the two $10,000 cash prizes were:

Robyn Phipps

Professor Robyn Phipps has qualifications in building science and architecture, and is internationally recognised as a teacher and researcher in a range of building and construction fields. She has observed the problems faced by both the designers of new buildings, and by the consenting authorities, assessing building facades to ensure that they will not leak and that they perform all the functions required of modern buildings. There are a limited number of facade engineers in New Zealand because there are no home-grown courses of study available, so they have had to obtain their qualifications and experience overseas.

Professor Phipps, who is an NZIOB member, will use the Charitable Trust Award to travel to one of the World’s best-known centres of excellence in the field of facade engineering, to investigate how to deliver building facade training to suitably qualified building practitioners in this country.

Proposed Use of the award:

Leaky homes have cost New Zealand well over $11 billion. Leaky schools and mid-rise buildings are additional to this sum. New Zealand currently has no qualification for education in façade engineering. Currently the growing need for façade engineers is being feed by practitioner who have been trained overseas.

The University of Waterloo have a highly respected program in Advanced Building Science with particular expertise in Façade Engineering. This is led by Associate Professor John Straube of Waterloo University, Ontario, Canada. John has expertise in Building performance (durability, energy efficiency, health, sustainability, comfort) as a function of use, Heat air and moisture transport within/through building materials and systems and the resulting problems of, corrosion, rot, mould, dissolution, etc. Modelling, and testing of same. New high-performance, low-energy and sustainable building products, materials, and systems.

Massey University is investigating the feasibility of developing a new major to add to its existing Masters of Construction to enable New Zealand students to gain specialist education in in Façade Engineering. This qualification would be open to entrants with an existing building related qualification such as Architecture, Construction or Engineering.

Meetings are required in order to assess the viability of delivering this course in New Zealand or a possible alternative such as short course delivery. This will enable New Zealand practitioners to upskill in this highly specialised but critical discipline. There will be advantages for the building industry and property industry.

Ged Finch

Gerard (Ged) Finch is a Student Member of NZIOB, has a Bachelor of Architecture Studies and is currently completing a Master of Architecture degree. He has worked as an academic research assistant in New Zealand and for architectural firms overseas. Ged is currently researching how best to avoid waste at the end of a building’s lifecycle. This research is significant given that some 50% of all New Zealand’s waste (amounting to 1.6 million tonnes annually) is generated by the construction sector. His proposition is that planning and designing for the disassembly of buildings at the end of their useful lives has the potential to greatly reduce the quantity of waste produced.

The NZIOB Charitable Trust Award will enable Ged to conduct full-scale tests of structural and architectural systems that have been designed to eliminate construction waste. This will effectively amount to a ‘real world’ test of those systems.

Proposed Use of the award:

This research is being undertaken at the School of Architecture and Design at Victoria University of Wellington. The research thesis examines how we can design housing in New Zealand that will not produce waste at the end of its lifecycle. The eventual aim is to produce buildings that are designed to be disassembled and whose parts can be on-sold and reused.

The proposal is summarised below:

The project is motivated by the fact that 50% of all New Zealand’s waste comes directly from the construction sector.
Through planning and designing for the disassembly of buildings at the end of their useful life we have the potential to greatly reduce the quantity and type of waste produced.
The funding will be used to conduct full scale tests of de-construable structural and architectural systems – to design, build, and test a range of building systems that will attempt to eliminate construction waste.
The real-world testing of such systems is essential as it adds validity to the research and will ideally lead to the real-world implementation of these solutions.
The research aims to produce a system that is not only ‘waste-free’ – but also cost competitive and attractive home owners and developers.
We have the potential to prevent up to 1.6 million tonnes of waste being sent to landfills in this country each year – that’s half of all the waste in New Zealand.
The work also has the capacity to create new ‘deconstruction’ jobs and energise the 2nd hand and recycled material markets.

The results of the first phase of the research can be viewed here

Our Awards History

Throughout the NZIOB’s history, the NZIOB Charitable Trust has provided funding for the Institutes key awards, including seed funding for the NZIOB ‘Building Manager of the Year’ awards (1990–1993), which was the precursor to the NZIOB Awards for Excellence which began in 1994.

Though the NZIOB Awards for Excellence have been self-supporting, the NZIOB Charitable Trust is proud to have provided some early emphasis to an event that has grown to become the construction industry’s premier night of recognising individual achievement.

Though the NZIOB Charitable Trust is currently not involved with the NZIOB’s program of awards and prizes, the Trust is pleased to provide the following history document to illustrate the NZIOBs longstanding commitment to promoting excellence within the construction industry.

NZIOB Medal & Framed Citation

2017	Simon Peter Barnes
2012	Steven Jacobus van der Pol
2009	Gina Mary Frances Jones
2007	Graeme Winston Goss
2005	John Charles Bullen
2003	John Jonnassen
1998	Bill Porteous
1995	Herbert Henry Farrant
1993	James Espie
1991	John David Sutherland
1989	Helen Tippett, OBE
1987	Robert Stewart Lockwood, JP, OBE

Chapter Honour Awards – Framed Citation

2014	Central	Michael John King
2012	Southern	John Charles Joseph Wise
2009	Northern Southern	Trevor Christian Griffiths Andrew Clive Marshall
2006	Northern	Peter Neville Kay
2004	Central	William James Bowler
2001	Northern Northern	Ian Robert Marshall John Charles Bullen
2000	Central	Gina Mary Frances Jones
1997	Central	David Bruce White
1995	Central Northern	Keith Edward Ross John Charles Bullen
1994	Southern	Sidney Stewardson
1993	Northern	Max Leonard Colman
1992	Southern	James Nelson Smith
1991	Northern	Herbert Henry Farrant
1989	Central Northern	Michael John Geale James Espie
1987	Northern Southern	Bruce James Connor Graeme L Robertson

Presidents Award – Framed Citation

2015	Northern	Grant Ewen
2006	Central Northern Southern	Alan Raymond Muxlow J. Peter Cowley William Samuel Harrison

The Building Manager of the Year Award

An award for Construction Excellence – became Building Excellence Award

1993	Paul Ellis, over $2M, Mid City III Complex, Centra Hotel Dan Ashby, over $2M commended, ASB Auckland Again only two entries both in over $2M
1992	Kelvin Hale, over $2M, The Majestic 100 Willis St, Wellington (only two entries, with none in the under $2M – a pre-qualification form was used in an effort to attract more entries – it did not work) Function held at Waipuna Conference Centre, Auckland
1991	Ashley Hartley, under $2M, Watties frozen Foods Amenities and Packing area Ashley Hartley, over $2M, Mangaroa Prison, stage 2 Graham Johnson, over $2M very highly commended, Park Royal Hotel Wellington Function held at The George Hotel, Christchurch
1990	Barry McBride, under $2M, Arahura Ferry Warren Hollings, over $2M, Aotea Centre Ashley Hartley, over $2M highly commended, Hawkes Bay Prison, Mangaroa I Function held at Park Royal, Wellington

NZIOB Awards for Excellence

2017	Andrew King, Supreme Award
2016	Rodney Verhoeven, Supreme Award
2015	Garyth Jones, Supreme Award
2014	Jack Vivian and Ivan Mercep (dec.), Supreme Award
2013	Jack Harris and Simon Chambers, Supreme Award
2012	Grant Thomas, Supreme Award
2011	John Overton/John Sofo, Supreme Award
2010	Mike Price, Supreme Award
2009	Gus Smith and Mark Evans, Supreme Award
2008	Graeme Earle, Supreme Award
2007	Andrew Holmes, Supreme Award
2006	Ian Morris, Supreme Award
2005	Anthony Leighs, Supreme Award
2004	Warren Hollings and Waren Warfield, Supreme Award
2003	Nick Cater, Supreme Award
2002	Martin Fahey, Supreme Award
2001	Alex Dickson, Supreme Award
2000	Alan Gray, Supreme Award
1998	Alan Gray, Supreme Award
1997	Warren Hollings, Supreme Award

NZIOB Young Achiever

2017	James Reed Chris Bassett
2016	Glen Jowett Ananlise Jones
2015	Matt McGuinness
2014	Matt Cameron
2013	Andrew Rowden
2012	Brendon Lindsey
2011	Stephen Kleehammer
2010	Shannon Chambers
2009	Ross Copeland
2008	Aaron Muir
2007	Samir Govind
2006	Grant Thomas and Grant Taylor
2005	Tim Jones
2004	Shannon Joe Stuart Smith
2003	–
2002	Antony Leigh

NZIOB Prize $200 & Framed Citation

1994	J C Wyatt, Wellington
1993	Warwick Lamb, Auckland
1992	Andrew Camberis, Wellington
1991	Richard Graeme White, Wellington (Joint Winner) Russell Murray, Wellington (Joint Winner)
1990	Lex Rogers, Auckland
1989	Howard Buchanan, Wellington Nigel Dong, Wellington
1988	Stuart Anderson, Auckland
1987	Leo T van Veenendaal, Auckland
1986	P J Bishop, Auckland
1985	Warren Drinkwater, Auckland Michael Bennett, Degree Course

AIB Prize $200 & Framed Certificate

1995	No nominations
1994	Poh Onn (Ronnie) Yong, Auckland
1990	Lex Rogers, Auckland
1988	Andrew Dick, Auckland
1987	N Liew, Auckland

NZIOB Scholarship $1,000 + Framed Certificate

1996	James D Craig, Victoria University Wellington
1995	Elrond Jonathan Burrell, Victoria University Wellington
1994	Sally Anne Wood, Victoria University Wellington
1993	Jim McKie, Victoria University Wellington
1992	Keith T Langham, Christchurch
1991	Not awarded – only applicant did not meet criteria
1990	Susan Larkins, Dunedin

The NZIOB Charitable Trust Awards