"We're looking for a steel partner, not just another supplier." That's how this Waikato build started.
It's a 460sqm architectural home near Morrinsville, built by Jeremy Eulink from Bareacre Builders. He found us online and rang around for quotes. He wasn't after a supplier to chase up. He wanted an engineering company to partner with going forward, and what he backed was the way we work.
What steel Alted fabricated
Our scope was the structural steel through the main features of the home:
Steel for the garage opening
Steel either side of the dining room, opening it out to a large double louvre system
An outdoor fireplace, with steel framing around the firebox
Two steel-framed chimneys, around six metres high, one in the main living area and one in the outdoor portico
The chimneys are the standout. Both run to about six metres and sit close together, so from a distance the house reads with two chimneys as a matched pair. They're steel-framed, with all the cladding bolted to timber that's bolted to the steel.
That order is the whole job. The steel has to be right first, because everything else hangs off it. Get the steel wrong and the timber's wrong, the cladding's wrong, and on a six-metre chimney there's nowhere to hide it.
The drawings made the difference
The drawings for this architectural build were some of the best we've worked off in a long time, and they came from LAD Architecture in Cambridge.
Everything was there. Heights, dimensions, connections, the lot. The engineering was drawn straight into the architecturals. We barely had a question to ask.
When the documentation is that good, the whole job downstream gets easier. Our shop drawings come together faster. Fabrication is cleaner. There's far less back-and-forth, and far less room for a costly surprise once steel hits site. On a build this size, that's the difference between a job that runs and a job that drags.
Credit to the LAD team.
Working with builders across the Waikato
The thing Jeremy was after, a partner rather than a supplier, is how we like to work anyway.
All shop drawings are constructed in SOLIDWORKS before a single piece is cut. This is a non-negotiable for our team.
Although we’re based in Tairua, more and more of our structural steel work is happening across the greater Waikato.
From Morrinsville and Hamilton through to rural and architectural builds, we regularly travel to deliver structural steel that’s designed, fabricated, and installed properly.
We know that for Waikato builders, reliability matters.
You need steel that turns up when it should, fits how it’s supposed to, and a team that communicates clearly when challenges pop up.
That’s what we aim to deliver on every project.
Whether it’s a coastal architectural build or a large Waikato home, we bring the same approach - practical thinking, quality workmanship, and getting the details right first time.
📍 Location: Morrinsville, Waikato
📍 Builder: Bareacre Builders
📍 Architect: LAD Architecture, Cambridge
