Architecture & consent documentation
Choice Architecture
The practice that draws our homes. Concept through detailed design, construction details and the documentation that goes to council — ADNZ Professional Member, Licensed Building Practitioner.
Our partners
A home is never one trade.
The people who turn up on our sites, most of them within an hour of the workshop, most of them for years.
- North Canterbury
- Where they are based
- One programme
- Coordinated by us
- Years
- Not one job
Our own
Two of the partners on this page are us.
Sutherland Building & Joinery and Paragon Portables are the same workshop and the same hands. Paragon Connect is ours too. We list them here because they are partners in your build exactly as the others are — the only difference is who signs their invoices.
Building & joinery
Sutherland Building & Joinery
Owned by Paragon Portables
The workshop behind Paragon Portables. Thirty-five years of building and joinery, and the reason our cabinetry, wardrobes and benches are made rather than ordered.
Who you deal with · Luke Sutherland
Project management, site works & decks
Paragon Connect
Owned by Paragon Portables
Our own platform for everything that happens after the home is ordered — foundations, drainage, services, transport, craning, landscaping and decks, all on one programme with a client portal you can watch it through. Yes, we build the deck too. In development.
Supporting local
A Paragon home puts a lot of North Canterbury to work.
We are one workshop in Ohoka, but a home is never one trade. The electrician, the plumber, the drainlayer, the crane driver, the transport operator, the timber merchant — nearly all of them are people we can drive to, and most of them we have worked with for years.
Photo to come
Foundations & rock work
Ranga Rock Builders
Foundations, retaining and rock work on sites where the ground needs more than piles.
Who you deal with · Shannon
Photo to come
Electrical
4Front Electrical
Every circuit, switch, socket and light in a Paragon home, and the connection at your end.
Photo to come
Roofing
DMC Roofing
Colorsteel longrun, flashings, fascia and spouting — the layer that decides whether the rest of the house stays dry.
Photo to come
Plumbing & gasfitting
Good as Gold Plumbing
Kitchen, bathroom and laundry pipework, hot water and gas — grouped in one place so the runs are short and the water is hot quickly.
Photo to come
Drainage & earthworks
KC Drainage & Earthworks
Site clearing, levelling, drainage and wastewater. The work that makes a section buildable before anything arrives on it.
Photo to come
Contracting
Goat Contracting
Site works and general contracting across the builds we run in North Canterbury.
Photo to come
Windows & glazing
Kaiapoi Aluminium
Low-E double-glazed aluminium windows and doors, powder-coated to your selected colour and glazed to comply with NZS 4223. Made up the road from the workshop.
Frames & trusses
VIP Frames & Trusses
Prefabricated roof trusses and wall frames, designed and certified to the engineer’s specification with a producer statement for every job.
Photo to come
Building supplies
Carters
Framing timber, sheet goods and building materials for every home we put through the workshop.
It is not a marketing position. It is how you get someone to turn up on a Saturday when a window has to go in before the weather does.
10-year structural guarantee
On every home we build
12-month build warranty
Workmanship, from handover
NZS 3604:2011
Timber-framed buildings standard
Contract Works insurance
In place for the whole build
Licensed Building Practitioner · New Zealand owned & operated
NZS 3604:2011 New Zealand Building Code Solid timber construction
- Design & consent documentation
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Our architectural designer - Restricted building work
- Owned and built here
You get all of them. You only ring one of us.
Every trade on this page is scheduled and coordinated by us, on one programme. That is what full project management actually means.