For most New Zealanders, their house isn’t just a number in a spreadsheet. It may be an investment, but it is primarily a home, where they painstakingly removed the old wallpaper and their kids took their first steps.

I entered the Apprentice of the Year 2024 competition because I’m ridiculously overcompetitive and I like doing competitions. Most people aren’t like this. The reality is there are many incredible apprentices who just don’t consider the fact that they could go far in this competition.

Project ThirtyTwo, prior to 2023, was a humble 100m2, two bedroom, one bathroom state house in Lower Hutt. The design for a complete overhaul had long been the pet project of our in-house architectural Designer and LBP Sylvia Main.

The house is an original Roger Walker design from 1969, with further additions made by another architect in the 1990s in keeping with the abstract style architecture.

The challenge presented by Mana Island was the remote nature of the work, and the difficulty of getting materials and labour onsite, as well as rubbish back to the mainland.

In mid-2024 SGB Construction was contracted to undertake a leading role in a refurbishment for Oranga Tamariki at the Epuni Care Facility in Naenae.

If sustainable building were easy, everyone would do it as a matter of course. A genuine commitment to the principles of sustainability is a challenge SGB believes is worth rising to the challenge of.

Environmentally, one vehicle heading to site is markedly better than four.

SGB Construction was privileged to be given the opportunity to work with Love Wainuiomata in the completion of long awaited ‘Welcome to Wainuiomata’ sign.

So much of our national character has been rooted in stoicism, the archetypal Kiwi man who pulls on his gumboots, turns his collar to the wind and gets on with it without complaining.

A grand old Miramar house jutted out from a steep hillside, supported by a basement level. The basement was only partially floored and needed an engineered retaining wall to be installed as a first priority.

Unpredictable interest rates, sticky inflation, Covid-19, supply shortages.

For almost a decade now, SGB Construction has been managing ongoing maintenance at Saint John's in the City, a Category 1 Heritage Listed church on the corner of Willis and Dixon street.

They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.