Lund worked with the Owners, Jim and Rae Hunter of Matagouri Trackers Ltd from the beginning of the design phase right through to completion to bring this very high quality building of 2500m2, on 4 levels, to fruition, on a strictly controlled budget. The building was speculative, in that there were no confi rmed tenants when construction commenced. The Owner acted as the project manager in concert with our Site Engineer. The main contract work and some subtrades were completed on a time and materials Maximum Price basis, which was the appropriate method to accommodate the many changes required by tenants. Other trades were tendered as the documentation became available, and design decisions made. There were over 40 subtrades in this project. Lund's provided a comprehensive administration and financial monitoring service to the Owner. To effect this work, Lund's placed a quantity surveyor onsite full time and provided a site engineer 16-32 hours a week in addition to a senior foreman onsite.

The building occupied 98% of a CBD site in Queenstown, thus staging, storage and craneage were problematic. Lund's solved these problems by constructing a steel framed perimeter gantry corridor around the 3 street frontages and purchasing a new state of the art Liebherr self erecting tower crane for the project which occupied an area of 4m x 4m-the only piece of land not built on! During construction, a lack of subcontract resources created obstacles to the programme. Lund's had to find inventive ways to keep the project on track. There was a significant amount of architectural precast work in the building.

(Plinths, sills, columns, lintels, balconies). Due to lack of capacity for precast manufacture at the time, to keep the building to programme, Lund's manufactured the basement panels and the architectural lintels themselves in Dunedin.