Customer Feature - Construction Specialties NZ

The recent earthquakes in Christchurch have focused the spotlight on the importance of building standards, proving that in catastrophic events our modern building standards minimise loss of life and damage.

NALCO customer Construction Specialties NZ has been in Christchurch inspecting the performance of their innovative seismic joint cover installations with convincing results. Areas surrounding many of their expansion joint systems have amazingly seen little or no damage from the 7.1 magnatude quake.

Expansion joints are designed to enable buildings to safely absorb building movement, thermal or seismic. Construction Specialties offer an innovative range of expansion joint cover solutions that minimise damage to the building during extreme movement. Their systems feature in many major building projects around the country such as Auckland’s Sky Tower, Aotea Square upgrade and Auckland’s Telecom Building.

Established in 1987 Construction Specialties NZ Ltd is a New Zealand owned company representing the importation, local manufacture and supply of C/S Inc USA products and innovations. Such as their commercial entrance mats for the retail and hospitality industries; acrovyn wall and corner protection for hospital and nursing homes; as well as louvres sunscreens and seismic joints for the commercial building industry.

NALCO has a long established relationship with Construction Specialties as a reliable supplier of extrusions and die design for their Louvre Blade and Seismic Joint ranges as well as providing a large range of off the shelf products.