YOUR PARTNERS IN CONSTRUCTION
The Build Partners team is led by Franco Liebenberg who is passionate about delivering excellence and exceeding expectations. Our multicultural, diverse and dynamic team have come from some of the largest construction and related companies within New Zealand, and abroad. We are proud of the diversity, skills and knowledge that this widely talented team bring together under our customer focused partnership approach. The breadth of our team’s experience helps to ensure we operate with robust policies and procedures, including Health & Safety, environmental, quality, time, budget and reporting, together with technical excellence across our group.
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Bari Lane visit with the Social Outcomes team from Kainga Ora
The Social Outcomes team from Kainga Ora including George, Taylor and Katrine had a site tour of Bari Lane yesterday; our 90 unit development in Mangere including our first modular apartment bu...
MONOCEROSMIND Team Building
Hans from MONOCEROSMIND came in to share his wisdom, talents and energy on Thursday 10th of December as a speaker at our monthly educational. The challenges of communication was clearl...
The Pink Ribbon Walk for NZ Breast Cancer Foundation NZ
The Pink Ribbon Walk for NZ Breast Cancer Foundation NZ was held on 14th November 2020 in the picturesque Domain in Parnell. The Pink Ribbon Walk events celebrate survivors, remember t...
Property Council New Zealand Property Industry Awards
The Rider Levett Bucknell Property Council New Zealand Property Industry Awards was finally held after many delays on Thursday, 12th November 2020. Having been nominated by Kainga Ora for the M...
Real life hero
Shannon (from Build 1) stopped in for a trusty pie on his way home from a hard days work on Friday last week. He was just returning to his car with pie in hand when he saw a young boy ...
Mates on site!
Last week we welcomed another record turnout on site to the team from Mates in Construction. Every 6 weeks or so we ensure the team are connecting with our staff; subs and of...
Native Tree Planting
Conservation Volunteers NZ regularly organizes volunteer days open to everyone to participate in keeping and restoring NZ native bush. On the 12th and 20th of September with it being sp...
Company Celebrations
On Friday 3rd July we downed tools early and headed to the Fantail & Turtle (Smales Farm) to celebrate a range of recent promotions within the Group. Build Partners has some exciti...
Congratulations Sean on your Bundle of Joy
Sean Jang (one of our Quantity Surveyors) had a gorgeous wee boy in 17th June; arriving a few weeks early he was obviously excited to get going in life! In fact the labour was over in ...
Introducing Newly Appointed Site Manager Joe
Originally from South Africa Joe spent 17 years in the United Kingdom, working his way up to Senior Site Manager for one of the largest group home builders in the UK. Emigrating with h...
Property Council Awards Nomination 2020
Build Partners are delighted that our Chippendale Crescent Development has been nominated for the Kainga Ora - Homes and Communities Multi Unit Residential Property Award in this year’s ...
Introducing Newly Appointed Project Manager Fraser
Hailing from Scotland, Fraser has spent the last 16 years working in the Construction Industry in both Asia and Australasia. These roles have included site engineer, site manager, proj...
Congratulations Shaun Lysaght
We are delighted to congratulate Shaun Lysaght who graduated from BCITO’s apprenticeship programme this week. We are proud to have watched him grow from a junior apprentice to a qualif...
Post Lockdown site meetings!
Yesterday our GM Business Performance went to site to meet our carpentry team. Although food was still an important draw card, the hot saviours were individually wrapped and our meeting was suc...
Congratulations John on your bundle of Joy.
We are delighted to welcome the newest member of our Build Partners team. John Hay and wife had a gorgeous wee boy Sebastian on Thursday 30th April at 5:13pm; weighing in at 3.9 kgs. Ev...
It’s serious business working from home for Build Partners….
The twice weekly PM meeting with our Head of Operations – Franco took a rather serious turn of events today; however look closer (curtesy of their wives photographic skills) and you wi...
Yes, we are open for business!
We might not be in the office but that doesn’t mean we are not working….Friday drinks might be virtual, work stations might be in bedrooms; kitchen tables and shared with our ch...
Introducing Newly Appointed Project Manager John
John Hay joined our group on Monday 30th March as our first new staff member to join us during the lockdown. He joined Build Partners as a Project Manager on our largest site – a 90 un...
14 Strong Men
14 strong men… Our carpentry team lead by Karsten have been full steam ahead on our Eskdale site. Building 10 houses (5 x 2 storey duplex) in about 3 months they are on the ...
Eskdale - Build 1 Smashing it!
Day 5 into this build of ten new homes in Beachhaven! Our builders have absolutely stepped up on this one. With delays earlier on in consenting, and a tight programme to meet our builder...
Christmas Party at Property Partners Group
Our final intercompany competition was merged with our staff (and partners) Christmas Party held at Tobac Bar in the city on Thursday night 12th December, we had an amazing turnou...
Christmas Sharing for those less fortunate
The Property Partners Group were delighted to this year partner with The Salvation Army to provide a host Christmas nonperishable food and clothing for others in need. This forms part ...
MATES in Construction Induction
Property Partners Group are delighted to partner with Kainga Ora in a pilot programme for our largest 90 unit development of social housing in Mangere. As our largest site this allows ...
Master Builders 93rd Annual Golf Tournament
Carters and GIB Master Builders held their 93rd Annual Golf Tournament on Friday 22nd November at Maungakiekie Golf Course in Mt Roskill. Our Build Partners Team led by John Hemi,...
New Look Hoardings go up on Lake Road Site
Build Partners have unveiled their fresh new hoardings at our Lake Road site which will see 12 new homes getting built over the next 12 months. This reflects our core values of “Buildi...
Career move for one of our builders!
Sean has been in the construction industry for over 10 years. He is a natural born leader who has worked his way through the ranks over the years. Sean has run many commercial and resi...
Going Green
Today we launched our new initiative to do our bit to save the planet for the next generation. The Property Partners Group (Build Partners; Land Partners, Design Partners and Build 1) are goin...
Introducing Newly Appointed Site Manager Jurgens (Joe)
I hail from a small town in the Western Cape in South Africa. Having recently moved to Auckland from Somerset West, South Africa where I worked for one construction company in a variet...
Talent Strategies in a disruptive economy
This week has been a busy time with a number of events on. This event “Talent Strategies in a Disruptive Economy” hosted by Beyond was both confronting as a business looking for good t...
Resilience in the workplace Property Council Event
Last night we had the opportunity of attending another Future Directions event run by the Property Council at the Northern Club. Stephen Drain, Partner at PWC lead a very stimulating a...
Psychology of leadership VUCA
Psychology of leadership in a VUCA world was hosted by The Myers -Briggs Company on Thursday 5th September at the at the Stamford Plaza in the City. Hosted by Cameron Nott (MD) this ev...
Becoming The Resilient Leader - Mastermind
Becoming a Resilient Leader- the pathway to long term growth. Held at the B:Hive in Takapuna on 20th August several of us headed along to listen to Hans Schulte and Grant Diffor...
Annual Walking Challenge 2019
Thank you to everyone who got behind the inaugural Annual Walking Challenge which will now be run every winter in June to keep us focused on healthy exercise in the winter months. ...
NZIOB Building Industry Awards
The New Zealand Institute of Building (NZIOB) has been running an annual awards programme since 1994. The New Zealand Building Industry Awards and Gala Dinner was held on Friday night at ...
Quantity Survey Team Road Trip
Quantity Survey Team Road Trip Last week saw the QS team get out of the office to view each other’s sites and talk through the issues, solutions and learnings on each other’s pr...
Another new baby for Build 1
Congratulations to Sean and his wife Laura who had a gorgeous wee boy– Oliver Noel Stritch born at 4.59pm on 12th August weighing in at a healthy 8lb 4oz! All the best t...
Strategic Advisor John Hemi
John is a professional construction industry leader who is well regarded in Auckland and the wider NZ market following many years’ experience with some of Australasia’s larger M...
Asquith Welcome Ceremony
Build Partners Limited were delighted to host a welcome ceremony and breakfast on behalf of HNZ on Friday 14th June at Te Ana Way (off Asquith Avenue, Mt Albert) as a thank you to the ...
Shaping the Future
Wednesday night several of our management team attended an event hosted by Auckland University Business School as part of the Deans Event Series Shaping futures. This event "Growing NZBusiness ...
A very exciting time for the Birkdale area
Build Partners Limited are delighted to support Housing New Zealand in building more homes in our local communities. 40 new homes in Birkdale have recently been opened by Housing and Urban Develop...
Another win for our boys at golf….
Build Partners Team win Mico’s Tenth Annual Regional Golf day at Whangaparaoa Golf Club Our winning team of Franco Liebenberg, Jacques Doubell, Jonathan Lapham and Lee Greshon who also had the ...
Build 1 team meeting Asquith Avenue
Our boys have quarterly team meetings lead by our Group Manager Karsten. This is an opportunity for all teams to come together from sites across Auckland. This is a place for everyone to talk t...
Small Site Erosion and Sediment Control Pays Off
At Build Partners company culture is very important to us.Not only do our Quantity Surveyors, Project Managers and Site Managers set themselves high standards, we also expect the same for our s...
Our Archery Team Building Event
Thursday the 21st of March our Group held its quarterly sporting challenge across the road at Rosmini Collage. We transformed into medieval attire and took up a bow and arrow in the hopes of wi...
Segar Avenue - Mount ALbert
It was a big day for us when the cranes started to put in 3 storey apartments at Segar Avenue, Mount Albert. Thanks to Carl, Tony, Mike and Caleb for doing a great job to ensure everything is i...
Joint initiative provides new careers for Apprentice Builders
Property Partners Group are delighted to have our first 2 apprentices join us on Monday 25 February from a new pilot programme with a joint agency approach. They are our first two young guys to...
Building Site Management – it’s about site culture
The media have recently highlighted an issue with how many building sites are being poorly managed across Auckland. This is an ongoing issue that has caused the industry a number of headaches, ...
Christmas Party at Property Partners Group
Our final intercompany competition was merged with our staff (and partners) Christmas Party. Held at Tobac Bar in the city on Thursday night 13th December, we had an amazing turnout and staff t...
The official first day of Build 1
Today was the first day of our newest company in the Group – “Build 1” operating. With most of the boys on one site this morning we took morning tea out to celebrate with them. With almost ...
‘Build 1’ has arrived!
With the increased demand for high quality, reliable builders we started off earlier this year taking on our own in house building team within our construction company - Build Partners Limited....
Pool Tournament at the Commons in Takapuna
Company Competition is alive and well! Our latest “healthy competitive” intercompany event was held in Takapuna on Friday 5th October 2018 at the Commons in Takapuna. With all four companie...
Apprenticeship Pilot Workshop
Build Partners represented by our Group CEO Steve Mikkelsen are delighted to be part of a new innovative pilot scheme developed by a group of government and social support agencies (HNZ, BCITO,...
Blue September Yacht Win
Build Partners were proud to be part of Placemakers “Blue September” as we support the awareness and fight against prostate cancer. On Thursday 4th October, Placemakers hosted a yacht race on th...
World Class Health and Safety at Build Partners
Build Partners welcomes a new partnership with Employsure. We truly believe the health and safety of our employees (and any consultant or subbie on our sites) is the most critical role of the B...
New member to our family
Build Partners are delighted to welcome our newest member of the family – Ava Chanel Liebenberg born on Friday 31st of August 2018 weighing a dainty 2.85kgs. With both Eloise (our receptionist...
Company Golf Day at Takapuna Golf Course
Company Golf Day at Takapuna Golf Course 13 April 2018 Part of the culture of our Group of companies is a competitive action based events programme run on a quarterly basis (usually of a sp...
Introducing three more apprentices for the Build Partners team
‘Build Partners’ are delighted to have signed a partnership with BCITO to work with our carpentry team to provide the right framework for our apprentice builders. Last week saw our first...