The stone masons dinner was held in the cook house at our mount Algidus Station site.Our site chef Paul cooked a fantastic steak meal for everybody , fine wines were free flowing and capped off with a cheese board and port. Thanks to Jamie and Jane for their generosity. Thanks to Dave Walker who was our sober Read More
Master builders awards held at Deans Stand AMI Stadium on Friday 6 August.We are still at the top of our game, after winning a gold award for the Rocks project at Scarborough beach Sumner.It was a fantastic night and enjoyed by all.Well done to our site forman Blair who lead the team and did a Read More
Many of you may have seen our advert in yesterdays Christchurch Press House of the Year lift out. We’ve had some great feedback from it. For those of you that missed it, here it is:
World cup football now over .Our company soccer nuts Mike and Jason inform me that Spain deserved to win Great win by the All Blacks on Saturday also Will Auckland ever be ready to host the world cup? Those poor north island builders will end up with an impossible time to complete! Compost now on vegetable garden getting ready Read More
Rhys Barrington our apprentice chief son has just won – The Salon Culinaire Competition –The same mystery ingredients were given to each competitor and had to make two portions of entrée in one hour. Rhys is currently employed by the Crown Plaza Christchurch under executive chief Tony Smith. The event drew some very tuff competition Read More
More bleak winter weather, roll on summer! Great day at Sandihurst wines mid-winter event on Sunday. About a 100 people gathered into the winery building amongst the barrels and were treated to a traditional South African feast. A charity auction was held to support the Westpac trust rescue helicopter and yes a made a couple Read More
Scott Barrington of Barrington Arch presented his company to the Canterbury Development Corporation at the hotel Grand Chancellor on Wednesday night to all the movers and shakers in the technology field of Christchurch of course Gillian and I attended and were very impressed check out the web site www.barringtonarch.com CB now commencing to build a Read More
Great weekend in Hanmer Fine food and great company at the Laurels restaurant in Hanmer Hanmer hot pools as good as ever Men on project sites battled with more wintery weather New CBC book getting closer House of the year judging is commencing for us Don’t forget to check out our architect of the month Read More
Below is the first in a series of Architects we are going to be profiling once a month. This month is C Nott Architects who we are working with on our Mt. Algidus station project (more photos coming soon). CNA is a team of young creative people committed to Architecture. We all have the belief Read More
Jeff Thompson 9 years with CBC celebrates his 25th wedding anniversary Dave Walker 29 years with CBC celebrates his 15th wedding anniversary First big frost at home for the year Blocked drain at home now fixed – (life back to normal) Very good steak at Mu steak house this week with old clients-Great night out Read More
