HOW WE WORK
Trusted relationships. Industry partnerships. Construction excellence.
Our 7 Step Process
Step one: Early Contractor Involvement
We are enthusiastic about supporting our clients as early as possible through early contractor involvement (ECI) to ensure the best project outcomes.
Engaging us at the early feasibility or concept stage enables us to use the expertise we have across the lifecycle of a project. This ensures your strategic objectives and desired outcomes remain the project’s driving force. Some examples of ECI Input:
- Early estimates to inform business cases and budgets.
- Lead ‘Value Engineering’ processes, including key stakeholder groups as required.
- Create sustainability strategies and energy goals.
- Construction Strategy and site staging.
- Resource planning to achieve programme objectives.
- Construction methodology options.
Step two: Tendering & Pricing
We prefer to engage with clients on a negotiated price basis, to reduce risk and cost for both parties. It also enables a broader range of procurement strategies, improves transparency, and helps to ensure trust and certainty are built in from the beginning. However, our team is experienced in the competitive tendering environment as we understand sometimes this approach isn’t possible.
Step three: Pre-Construction
We provide full turn-key construction delivery services. We work collaboratively with our clients to develop a comprehensive construction programme—including whether the delivery of separable portions is advantageous or necessary.
Risk identification and management are critical for project success. During this phase, we ensure that all project risks are quantified and understood so that informed control strategies are put in place.
Step four: Site Establishment
During site establishment, we engage and mobilise our build and supply partners, including procuring necessary long-lead items.
Site demolition, surveying, health and safety processes and inductions, and site office establishment will generally take place during this phase. We also ensure all environmental controls and waste minimisation processes are established at this stage.
Step five: Construction & Delivery
During the course of the project, we prepare regular (typically monthly) Project Control Group (PCG) reports and hold meetings with our construction team, external Engineers to the Contract (ETC) and/or client representatives.
Our objective is to move the project through the Construction and Delivery stage as efficiently and safely as possible without compromising quality.
Step six: Completion & Handover
Ensuring a project is both practically and operationally complete and fully compliant is the culmination of months and sometimes years of meticulous planning. When that planning has been done well, this stage is a straightforward process.
Compliance and quality sign-offs are done throughout the construction build, so this stage is simply the submission to regulatory bodies such as council consenting authorities and NZGBC (for a Homestar rating).
Step seven: Post-Construction
This stage is essential to ensuring quality and design outcomes are achieved. As well as the usual warranty and guarantee periods, we maintain a minimum 12-month defects period.
It is important to us that any project we complete performs as expected and maintains a high level of service with low maintenance requirements.
The Power of Good Partnership
We partner with developers, architects, and organisations who match our heart and passion for people-centred construction that’s better for our communities and our planet.
Our trusted build partners, long-standing industry relationships, commitment to openness and transparency, and desire for continual improvement enable us to drive growth, innovation, and excellence in construction.
Some of our partners include; Wrightwire Electrical, Hagley Window & Doors, PlaceMakers Christchurch, West Hub Auckland, Metalcraft, Carters St Lukes, A2Z Painting, Awesome Kitchens, Sly Construction, HireKING, and Kāinga Maha.
Health & Safety
Keeping people safe and well is our priority. Our commitment extends to ensuring the wellbeing of every individual involved in our projects.
Sustainable Outcomes
We build to make a difference—not just tick a box.
Our commitment to our communities, our industry, and the planet means that cost alone doesn’t drive our procurement decisions. For us, sustainability is about stewardship—making responsible choices that create long-term value.
By working closely with our suppliers, we seek solutions that support lasting impact. Throughout every stage of design and construction, we consider the environmental, health, and community implications of each decision we make.
This includes but is not limited to:
- The carbon impact of both the construction and operation of a home.
- Minimisation of waste, packaging, and transportation costs.
- Preferring locally manufactured products.
- Considering the impact of materials and specifications on inhabitant's health and wellbeing.
- Supporting the industry skills through apprenticeships and diverse employment practices.
- Ensuring financing sustainability through balanced long term procurement partnerships.
- Sourcing labour, build partners, and suppliers from the local community we are building for.
- Making a commitment to build houses to Homestar 6 standard or better.
- We have accredited Homestar assessors and expertise, within our team.
Our commitment to excellence in construction.
Who we are informs the principles of how we build and construct. These are the principles that guide how we construct our homes.
Keeping people safe and well is our priority. Our commitment extends to ensuring the wellbeing of every individual involved in our projects. Our experienced team, safe build methodology, and established supplier and industry partnerships mean we deliver on time without compromising safety and quality.
We have committed to reducing our carbon impact to zero through the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). This means that we are working to reduce our Scope 1 & 2 carbon impact to zero by 2030 and our Scope 3 impact to zero by 2050. We consider the carbon impact and the future maintenance costs for owners, taking into account the whole life cycle of a home when building. Home Construction has partnered with the inventory management tool Mutu to track and compile data on our waste and carbon. We are also working with Tether products, which measure building performance to gather operational data. We utilise this data to inform decisions in the design phase.
If there is a better way, we will seek it out. We do not accept that the last product or method used is necessarily the best. Through collaboration, partnerships, and seeking out global knowledge, we continuously improve what and how we build, measured by cost, time, sustainability, and quality. Through our use of the Procore platform and bespoke technology solutions, we can innovate and provide real-time data, insights, and decision-making capability with a project, as well as across our supply chain and industry value chain.
We are committed to kaitiakitanga and recognise we are stewarding the future of generations to come. We recognise our responsibility within our industry and our communities to elevate culture and practices to the highest possible levels.
Doing it right and doing it well is in our blood. What and how we build is a continual pursuit of excellence that we live for. Quality is an attitude that pervades our people, our culture, and our processes. It results in beautiful, safe, and reliable homes and properties that we are proud to have built.
We seek to maintain the highest level of transparency through real-time, open, accurate reporting and communication. Home Construction maintains balanced, long-term procurement partnerships to help ensure certainty and sustainability. We work collaboratively to remove all unknowns, thus reducing risk and giving our clients and stakeholders certainty.