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Mount Maunganui cool store
Mount Maunganui · 2025
Galvanised throughout, because the site is 400 metres from the tide.
Coastal steel is a durability problem before it is a structural one. The specification said C4 and the original design had it painted.
We priced it both ways and showed the client the twenty-year cost: hot-dip galvanising was more up front and cheaper by year twelve, on a building they intend to own for thirty.
They took the galvanising. It also meant no touch-up crew after erection, which pulled a week out of the programme nobody had counted on.