Thermosash

TODAY 

Façade engineer and Group Managing Director, David Hayes, heads up Thermosash Commercial Ltd. We have offices in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Our head office and main manufacturing unit operates from Henderson, Auckland - one of the most modern operations in Australasia with state-of-the-art imported automated machinery.

We operate as part of the Thermosash Group of Companies which includes Woods Glass, Insite Facades and WEC.

The building industry, particularly over the last decade, has passed more and more responsibility with performance specifications, tight lead times and fast track construction programmes onto the metal window industry. Due to the level of expertise required, and the technology available today, we have made major investments in plant and technical/professional staff to keep abreast with this demand. This has given us a competitive advantage within the industry.

We are proud to be 100% New Zealand owned and operated. For over 50 years we have turned concepts into buildings of excellence that stand the test of time and enrich our cities.

We continue to pursue innovation and expertise to be a single provider of value and durable world class building envelope solutions; to build stunning buildings across New Zealand and abroad.

1973

Thermosash Commercial Ltd commenced operations in Auckland, New Zealand in June 1973 under the direction of the five founding Engineers who had, through their senior positions with Crittall Metal Windows, accumulated over 120 years of expertise in the Commercial Window Industry.

Under its founder, Mr Laurie Hayes and their modern integrated suites, Thermosash quickly developed a reputation for innovation and expertise.

AUCKLAND

David Hayes - Group Managing Director

David has had more than 29 years of practical experience at the helm of Thermosash, NZ’s leading façade curtain wall company. His father founded Thermosash in 1973 and David joined the company in 1982 gaining experience both in NZ and at Vistawall, a large American curtainwall supplier. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer specialising in façade engineering and is responsible for system design solutions for the Group. In this role he has been closely involved with some of the most prestigious and award winning buildings around New Zealand. David has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Auckland University and is currently a member of the Ministry of Building & Housing Envelope Advisory Panel.

Kent Nixon - Group Director Strategy Markets and Products

Kent has been in the construction industry since 1989. Working through the industry in primary roles within architectural practices, bespoke industrial design and engineering companies, commercial project management, development manager and construction design management. Kent is passionate about the construction industry and joined Thermosash to aid in further developing the Thermosash business, brand and subsidiary businesses. Kent is a Registered New Zealand Architect (BArch) and holds a NZCD (Architectural)

Karen Baeyertz

Karen is the face behind our admin@thermosash.co.nz address. She is well placed to be the central point of contact, having completed an Honours business degree with a double major in E-Business and Enterprise Development. This means she not only understands the challenges and demands businesses face with their on-line presence and the desire for instant responses, but also the academic drivers behind business growth and development.

Additionally, she has capped it off with a PhD, exploring in her doctoral thesis the interface between design and entrepreneurship. As such she offers a unique perspective in our Thermosash environment where both design and innovation in design are paramount to our continued presence in the market.

WELLINGTON

Dave Rooker - Area Manager and Director – Wellington

David joined Thermosash in 1994 after 17 years in the window industry mostly in the UK. His early experience as a draughtsman led to senior project manage ment positions with Crittal’s and Hinchcliff in England. During this time he spent two years with Thermosash in Wellington and then decided to return to NZ in 1994 to manage Te Papa Museum project. On its completion he became Area Manager of the Thermosash operation in Wellington in 1996. David was appointed to the board of Thermosash in 2002. David has qualifications in Building Studies with a TEC qualification from Hall Green Technical College in England and a HTEC qualification from Warley Technical College in England

CHRISTCHURCH

Allan Valli - South Island Business Development Manager

Allan joined Thermosash in Wellington in 2002 after being involved in the construction industry for 35 years. His early experience was with Parkin Glass and Metro Glass before running his own business as a curtain wall installer. Thermosash approached Allan to become the Commercial Manager for Wellington responsible for QS and Estimating as well as assisting in contract s et up and management. He was appointed to his present role in 2008 to take over the new South Island factory and marketing role as Area Manager. Allan has a Trade & Advanced Trade Carpentry certificate.

There are few companies in the construction industry that can proudly state that since incorporation they have been operating under the same single business structure.

Our promise to you is that a Thermosash Building Envelope Solution™ will be the best commercial window envelope solution available. We will achieve this by developing long term relationships with our suppliers, customers and achieving the aspirations of all our people. Customer satisfaction is paramount to ensure repeat business using systems that are tried, tested and proven, enabling us to confidently offer the longest recognised warranties for building envelope solutions available in the New Zealand market.

It is well documented that the New Zealand Commercial Construction industry is responsible for over 50% of waste disposed to landfills. Records from 2006 state that this equates to 1.578 million tonnes.* Report: Environment New Zealand 2007

Thermosash manufactures all our façade components in New Zealand, and primarily source materials were available from the New Zealand market.

The exception being glass, flat aluminium sheet and some other small percentage components, where there is no manufacturing industry in New Zealand.

Aluminium

Thermosash extruded aluminium holds Toitū Carbonreduce certification and we are approved as a partner of the accredited Toitū scheme - making our aluminium commercial unitised curtainwall suites one of the lowest C02e/kg* systems readily available in New Zealand.

Contact us for the most up to date embodied carbon figures.

Re-use

The design life of a Thermosash unitised curtainwall façade system, if maintained according to our Operations and Maintenance Schedule, should well exceed 50+ years.

However, should the system need to be removed earlier in its design life we are able to facilitate this. As an example, Thermosash upcycled a curtainwall facade from a post 2016 Kaikoura earthquake, structurally damaged, building. The BNZ Harbour Quay building facade (Thermosash completed in 2009) was removed and re-installed on the Wellington Children’s Hospital plus other buildings.

Thermosash gifted and installed the upcylced PW1000 Unitised curtainwall on the Wellington Regional Children's Hospital which was completed in 2022.

• View the BNZ Harbour Quay total clad project
• Architecture Now has featured an article on this re-use project, Breathing new life into recovered building materials.

Community Sustainability

Thermosash are founding members of MATES IN CONSTRUCTION, and active sponsors of the NZIOB, NZIQS, NZIA, NWIC, New Zealand ZAC Façade Conferences, contribute to Westpac Helicopter, Children’s Christmas Party, amongst other smaller charities.

Thermosash employs more than 600 people locally in New Zealand. A recent report prepared by BERL noted that Thermosash’s input to the New Zealand economy and community through our commitment to our local staff and their families as well as all the secondary integrated national supply chain, cadetships, apprenticeships and other related industry and personal development training was significant. The full BERL Report is available upon request.