We are making excellent progress towards delivering what will be New Zealand’s premier example of how to design and fit a total hydronic building heating and cooling solution.
Last Friday, we celebrated a major milestone with a traditional roof shout, where staff had the opportunity to tour the impressive space.
This new facility will be climate-controlled using active floor and ceiling, heating, and cooling. The CHNZ retail team has laid 6 kilometers of Multitubo 16mm Pert pipe in the ground and first-level floor slabs. They are keenly awaiting the arrival of the active ceiling panels from Variotherm in Austria and plan to fit these in late October. Later on in the program, the building will be fitted with state-of-the-art, Hydronic heat pumps and an active heat recovery ventilation system from Maxa in Italy.
The showroom, which will be the largest of its type in the country has been pre-piped with Multitubo composite pipe, and the interior design pod has been constructed ready for transport, and installation once construction is finished.
Central Heating New Zealand is also constructing a large adjacent warehouse giving it the capacity to supply orders for our customers' requirements across the country for our leading product ranges. This warehouse will allow Central Heating New Zealand and its parent company Rinnai to house all their South Island inventory together on one site. This in turn will drive greater efficiencies for their respective supply chains, making it easier to lower the time taken to process orders. The current Central Heating New Zealand supply chain team, which will manage the facility, remains committed to continually improving the number of orders filled, in full and on time through the use of lean management. Finally, we will also be providing our local customers with a more convenient collection area dedicated to making it easier to call past and get what they need for a job, even with a trailer on.
We are looking forward to welcoming our customers to our new showroom, office, and warehouse in early 2025.
