FEATURED PROJECT – THE BIOSOLAR HOUSE
It’s a prefabricated, affordable, warm and sustainable home that is a joy to live in!
Hello. I'm Andi Steinemann.
I grew up and worked in Switzerland, then spent 5 years in New Zealand on various building projects.
For a decade I’ve been employed by Swiss company Arbos as a Project Manager and Quantity Surveyor.
I resettled in Carterton three years ago, and am enjoying bringing my international and local experience in building and design to the Wairarapa.
Services
I’m equally comfortable wielding a hammer, creating designs, or planning construction.
I specialise in the following areas:
Design,
Planning
&
Construction
Consulting for
Optimised Insulation
&
Vapour Barriers
Construction Planning
&
Consulting for
DYO Customers
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Experience
1991-1997
Apprenticeship and work as a landscape gardener, log builder and carpenter in Switzerland and New Zealand
1997-1999
Advanced Trade Certificate as carpenter in Switzerland
1999-2004
Steinemann Builders in Carterton: several new residential buildings, alteration work & restaurants
2004-2014
Project Manager and Quantity Surveyor for Arbos AG in Switzerland.
2015: Returned to New Zealand.
2015-Now
Andi has settled in Carterton and worked on many projects in Wairarapa and Wellington with a focus on design for sustainable, prefabricated, warm and affordable homes.
Skills
- New buildings
- Renovation & alteration
- Log homes
- Staircases
- Post and beam
- Half-Timbered constructions
- Draughtproofing
- Insulation
Projects
The Watermill Bakery for Boly and Gerlinde Braun-Bolliger
New dwelling for Boly and Gerlinde Braun-Bolliger, 33 Blakes Road Carterton
New dwelling for Stefan Schulz, Le Pakaraka Road
New dwelling and alteration for Hanna Mader, 636 Norfolk Road Carterton
Alteration for Don and Linda MacRae
New dwelling for Peter and Dianna Gaskin, Belfour Crescent Castlepoint
Mt Holdsworth Station: new dwelling & alteration for Hamish Thom, Mount Holdsworth Rd
New dwelling Sandy and Tony Parkinson, Upper Plain Road, Masterton
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