Kāinga Ora Retrofit Programme
February 17, 2021
Early 2021, Logic Group were engaged to assist Kāinga Ora with their retrofit programme in Otago/Southland and the West Coast.
Kāinga Ora are committed to make their housing stock warmer, drier and healthier to help improve the wellbeing of their customers.
Their objective is to bring the homes up to, or above, new building standards and add another 50 years of life to the property.
Improvements vary from home to home, although all include full insulation (walls, ceilings and floor), double glazing, improved airtightness, ventilation and new heating.
We are proud to be part of this initiative.
We are proud to be working with the Ministry of Education and the Clutha Valley Primary School community delivering their new school in Clydevale. On Wednesday 14th September, we celebrated the official sod-turning ceremony. The function began with a Karakia, the national anthem, respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II and acknowledgement of local culture and history. Construction will begin in the coming weeks.
Kings High School were the winners of a recent quiz hosted by Logic Group.
Chris Farry, Mike Kain, Neva Vaitupu and Orlando Tuhega-Vaitupu (left to right). It was a big week for Orlando, as the day before, he had been named as Kings High School Class Act.
Logic Group were successful in winning 4 bundles from the 2022/2023 10 Year Property Plan submission. We look forward to developing strong relationships with these schools by assisting them develop and deliver their schools vision. These projects commence 16th September 2022.
Logic Group attended the 2022 Otago Polytechnic Cancer Ball on September 2nd at the Dunedin Town Hall. It was great to see that this event was a success for the Otago/Southland Cancer Society, after the last two years being cancelled due to COVID-19.
Logic Group have been engaged on various projects for the last five years at Mercy Hospital. Although all occur within the operational facility, some are scheduled to coincide during the Christmas shut-down period to reduce the ‘out of service’ period. Our latest projects are PACU and Theatre 7.
On Friday 12 th August, our Dunedin team equipped with shovels, hammers, and power tools headed to a Kainga Ora residential site to built garden plots and compost bins. We left the built garden beds full of soil for the residents to plant out in vegetables and herbs when the weather gets a bit warmer.
We celebrated the successful completion of the 5YA projects at Ravensbourne School today with a fish/hotdog and chips lunch for the students. The projects consisted of a re-roof, new learning support coordinator office, upgraded toilets, new sewage system, new clearlite roof for the pool and new accessibility rails for the handrails. Lloyd, our project manager, really enjoyed working with the school.
Work is ongoing at St Pauls Cathedral in Dunedin, with the insurance reinstatement project following the fire in the Apse in August 2020. It is expected that these works will be completed September 2022. Other projects including redevelopment of the ground floor are currently in the early planning stages.
Sam Cadden, our Logic Southern Director, along with other Haggis Protection Society members are gathering on Saturday 25th June to host a ceilidh (pronounced KAY-Li) event. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish dance. If last years event is anything to go by, it will be a fun and energetic evening!
The installation of laminated veneer lumber (LVL) marks a significant milestone at the recently named Otago Polytechnic Trades Training Centre, He Toki Kai Te Rika. The building is being built to keep up with the expected growth in the number of students pursuing building and construction qualifications, as well as to give the facility more capacity to deliver apprenticeship programmes.