Determined to deliver.
Southbase Group is made up of independent specialist companies with a shared vision to transform New Zealand’s construction industry for good.
Why Southbase
Over $2.2 Billion in Diverse Sector Projects Delivered
Successfully delivered over $2.2bn in project value across the health, education, community, corrections, industrial, commercial, and critical infrastructure sectors.
Proven Success with Diverse Clients
Strong track record of partnering with a diverse portfolio of public and private sector clients in the commercial construction industry to deliver large-scale projects, on time and to budget.
200+ Experts in Health, Education, and Critical Infrastructure
Over 200 industry experts with specialist skills across health, education, critical infrastructure and accomodation.
Integrated Building and Manufacturing Expertise
Integrated Group capability across Building Technologies, Construction and Offsite Manufacturing.
Experienced PPP partner and specialist in D&C
Proven history and experience in PPPs, effectively collaborating with both public and private stakeholders. Our integrated capabilities and innovative contractor model have consistently delivered successful infrastructure projects, ensuring efficient and successful project outcomes.
Southbase Group Overview
Southbase Group is made up of independent specialist companies with a shared vision to transform New Zealand's construction industry for good. We have unparalleled expertise across the entire construction lifecycle, with proven experience to find and produce solutions that deliver sustainable value economically, environmentally and socially.
Our track record speaks for itself, having delivered projects of significance nationally for over 10 years. Within the Group's businesses, we have a full in-house engineering, design, and construction technology team which includes registered architects, civil engineers, structural engineers, mechanical engineers, and BIM specialists. This team supports our construction business on projects by working closely alongside the designers and the delivery team to optimise project outcomes and significantly reduce risk.
Preformance Building Technologies brings together world class consultancy and decades of national construction experience to deliver sustainable value for client partners. The Preformance team also has deep expertise in digital construction gained by successfully delivering alongside the Southbase Construction business. This experience has created industry relevant outcomes that can be offered and evolved for better built environments across New Zealand and the world. By leveraging their multi-disciplined team, Preformance finds better ways of working to solve complex problems, delivering build programmes on time, on budget, and beyond expectation.
Southbase Construction is a proven performer in delivering projects of national significance. Over the last 10 years, the business has successfully delivered over 2.2 billion dollars in project value across sectors such as health and clinical research, defence, education, civic, residential, student accommodation, industrial and commercial. Their unique combination of technical skills and commercial understanding optimises transparency, drives efficiencies, and unlocks sustainable value.
Innofab specialises in pre-fabricating the main components that make up buildings across New Zealand; from homes to schools to retirement complexes, apartments, and offices. By combining innovative digital technology with a world-class factory in Christchurch, Innofab is able to notably enhance New Zealand’s building productivity, delivering significant cost efficiencies whilst producing 70% less waste.
Recent project
One New Zealand Stadium
One New Zealand is a covered stadium built on an inner- city site at the eastern edge of the Christchurch CBD. Designed to host major events both local and international, the stadium has scalable capacity to ensure it remains fit for purpose for smaller concerts, shows and events; this includes 25,000 permanent and 5,000 temporary seats, and a total maximum capacity of 36,000 for large concerts.
We are a New Zealand owned and operated group that connects expertise across the entire construction lifecycle.
With a shared vision to transform New Zealand’s construction industry for good, we combine technology with proven construction experience to find better ways of working that add sustainable value today and for future generations. We’re able to solve complex problems by leveraging specialist skills across each of our independent companies, allowing us to unlock value through buildable solutions delivered on time, on budget and beyond expectation. Our approach is characterised by a tenacious spirit, an open and collaborative style, and living by our brand ethos of “determined to deliver”.
Southbase Group is an ambitious company with a clear vision – to transform the New Zealand construction industry for good.
“What’s unique about Southbase is their collaboration with the client, but also their understanding and their willingness to walk in the clients shoes.”
Peter Vause
Capital Programme Manager
Massey University
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Southbase joins the ranks of the world's best businesses
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Interview with Kat Nelson
To celebrate International Women's Day we chat with Kat Nelson, Design Manager on women in construction.
Interview with Jon Sinclair
We chat with Jon, our Preformance Digital Service Director on his recent completion of Te Ara Reo Māori: He Pī Ka Pao.