Construction that strengthens local communities

Delivery partners are registered on Amotai, New Zealand's supplier diversity intermediary, and include Amotai-accredited Māori and Pasifika businesses when inviting subcontractors to tender. Partners hold their own relationships with local iwi, Māori employment providers and kura in the regions they work in. On the Mana Mokopuna fit-out in Wellington, the end-user group shaped
colours, finishes and the environment directly, and the completed space was marked by a dawn blessing to establish its mauri. On government programmes, Māori and Pasifika business participation is reported quarterly alongside employment and apprentice numbers, so clients can see what has actually been spent and with whom.

Our partners employ their own site workforce and commit to apprentice training. We work directly with apprenticeship providers, industry training organisations and local schools. Because several have operated in the same town for more than 50 years, the pathway runs a long way: apprentice to tradesperson to supervisor, and in some cases to ownership of the business. Home Ground also works with clients on practical barriers, including support for driver licensing, which is often the deciding factor in whether someone in regional New Zealand can take up a trade role.

The alliance gives strong regional contractors access to work they could not win alone. National and multi-region programmes go to large national firms by default. Home Ground changes that. We hold the client contract and coordinate the programme, and each project is delivered by the partner in that region. One recent programme of work was done by our Waikato, Wellington and Canterbury partner with a single client and contract, but three regional businesses growing on the back of it.

Every partner shares a commitment to reducing the carbon footprint of the work they deliver, and each brings the knowledge of their own region to it. They know which local suppliers can meet a specification, which materials are available without freighting them the length of the country, and which methods work in their conditions. Those options are then shared across the alliance, so an approach proven in one region becomes available in all eight.

Performance is measured rather than assumed. Our partners hold Toitū Net Carbon Zero Organisation certification, requiring annual emissions measurement to the ISO 14064-1:2018 standard, independent verification and continued reduction. Project-level measures include waste diversion targets with monthly reporting and embodied carbon evidenced through Environmental Product Declarations.

Delivering locally reduces emissions before any of this is applied. Crews and materials are not moved across the country to reach a site.