By Woods Glass
Auckland University's new six-storey building consolidates its campuses in the central city and brings its School of Population Health and School of Medicine together at its Grafton campus, opposite Auckland Hospital.
The building’s entire façade is a Thermosash curtain wall composed of profiled zinc sheeting and high performance glass. Woods Glass supplied all of the glass for the façade, with much of it being our Keramo ceramic fritted glass.
Woods Glass supplied and installed internal partitions, balustrades and ChromaPane colour backed glass.
NEW ZEALAND OWNED AND OPERATED
Woods Glass was established in 1986, and is proudly 100% NZ owned and operated. Woods Glass is a recognised leader in commercial glazing and architectural glass supply in New Zealand
Our company mission since inception was to establish a specialist commercial glazing company commited to providing quality “Building Glazing Solutions” for the New Zealand building industry.
As part of our commitment to deliver high quality products and solutions, we continue to reinvest heavily to extend our capability as more demands are placed on our industry.
We have assembled the most experienced team of glass professionals in New Zealand, operating nationwide with branches in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. We work alongside our Thermosash Group companies, Thermosash Commercial and Insite Facades.
We have a proven track record, having completed some of the largest and most successful commercial glazing contracts in New Zealand
Our Promise:
As we move into that future we remain committed to continually updating our skills and in-house technology, providing international best practice glass solutions to the New Zealand building industry.
When a designer presents a concept in glass that others might say no to, we at Woods Glass instead find solutions. We rely on our team’s technical ability, experience and expertise and rest with the knowledge that our industry partners support, constantly train and audit us to ensure that our systems and procedures follow best practice.
When a proven track record in the commercial glass and glazing industry is combined with modern technology, equipment and experienced specialized staff, the result is a glazing company capable and willing to take on the responsibility of delivering engineered building glazing solutions.
Sourcing and Sustainability
Woods Glass sustainably builds futures for our people, our community and our customers.
Sustainability is one of Woods Glass’ core strategic priorities. Through continuous development we are able to provide customers and the community with innovative, world leading facade solutions designed specifically for the New Zealand environment.
Woods Glass reduce the environmental impact of our processing and construction activities through sustainability focused design, sourcing and production methods.
Our aluminium extrusions are sourced from McKechnie’s Aluminium - the only aluminium extruder to achieve diamond level third-party CEMARS™ environmental certification. This means they emit 90% less carbon in producing their materials than the global average.
We have a minimum 85% recycled aluminium in our window suites and we recycle all our off-cuts and scrap aluminium back through their re-melt facility.
Woods Glass aim to minimise any waste that is sent to landfill by recycling glass, timber, polystyrene, metal, aluminium and batteries through responsible channels.
We are commited to the environment and a member of New Zealand Green Building Council. We have a Green Star Accredited Professional who has an in-depth knowledge in healthy, less polluting green building practices.