By Thermosash
The refurbishment of 149 Featherston Str, Brandon House in Wellington, facilitated halving the embodied carbon compared to a new low-carbon build. The original 1960s Leaders Building was fully stripped back to its concrete structure and an additional three levels were added in timber construction, taking the whole building to 11 storeys. The top storey has penthouse office accommodation with views to the Wellington harbour.
The new bronzed Low-E glass curtainwall, Thermosash PW1000 Unitised flush glazed, wraps around the building like a skin, creating a smooth glass vertical facade. The corners of the building, comprised of curved glass, provide a contemporary sculptured effect to the office tower. Thermosash also installed PW1000 suite to the street level shopfront, louvres, auto and hinged doors, aluminium cladding, frameless shopfront, as well as our Sierra Suite manual sliding doors to the deck area.
Brandon House by Studio Pacific Architecture won the Commercial Architecture award in the 2022 Wellington Architecture Awards.
Thermosash has reclad and refurbished many commercial facades across New Zealand, bringing new life to building structures by engineering high performance solutions with trusted building envelope systems. Our systems are Unitised TM which enables us to close in buildings rapidly and save on programme time.
Contact us to talk about your next refurbishment project, we have the knowledge and expertise to provide cohesive integrated solutions.
Photography by Thomas Seear-Budd
Thermosash is New Zealand’s largest commercial window, curtainwall, total clad façade designer, manufacturer and contractor - local since 1973.
As a world class supplier of engineered façades, we provide, through constant evolution of our product range, systems that are trusted and proven.
“Our work at Thermosash is critical to the building industry. Our prefabricated design specific engineered building envelopes shape the appearance of our skylines: offering comfort to occupants from heat and cold, protection from the elements, respite from the acoustic discomfort of busy cities and pleasure to those who appreciate the built environment”. David Hayes, Group Managing Director.
Our growth since 1973 demonstrates that the strength we offer the building industry is underpinned by supplying quality, long lasting, engineered building envelope systems. Our ability to meet tight lead times and on-site programmes, our acceptance of transfer of design responsibility, our engineering, manufacturing, logistics and on-site capabilities, together with our team’s passion and quality service commitment enables us to remain at the forefront of the facade subcontracting industry.
Our Expertise
Thermosash’s abilities have grown since its 1973 start-up when Laurie Hayes and his colleagues manufactured commercial windows out of a small production facility. It quickly became apparent that the products and skills of the workforce were creating a performing quality, flexible product that the market sought.
Over time, our teams of dedicated and committed people have grown, this has been possible through constant reassessment of internal and external processes and manufacturing methods from around the world. We’ve also provided ongoing reinvestment in the training of our people to ensure lean process, IT Systems, material handling machinery and transport logistics equipment, as well as design office and factory production process improvements. We are able to offer a world class company with manufacturing facilities in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Our Offering
We offer an extensive range of cost effective, high performance rainscreen, pressure equalised window, door and façade solutions to suit any commercial project. Our products are incorporated in high-rise office blocks, apartment buildings, shopping centres, airports, institutions, hotels, industrial complexes and quality architectural homes.
In addition to offering bespoke façade solutions for new builds, we are experts in recladding, rainscreen over-cladding and the refurbishment of existing façades.