Commercial / Education and Public Sector
Education and public sector. Built for the community.
Education and public sector environments carry a responsibility that goes beyond the job itself. These are spaces where people learn, develop, and perform, and the standard of the environment reflects the standard expected within it. Finesse understands what it means to work within that context. Timing matters, the spaces matter, and maintaining a consistent standard across every visit matters. That understanding is reflected in our ongoing maintenance relationship with One NZ Stadium, also known as Te Kaha, one of New Zealand's most significant new civic venues.
Finesse has delivered across this sector at St Mary's School in Blenheim, Parakiore Recreation and Sports Centre in Christchurch, and the West Coast Mental Health Facility in Greymouth. Each project ran to a fixed programme, a specific specification, and a standard that matched the expectations of the institution and the community it serves.
What stays consistent is how we approach the work. Planning around institutional calendars, coordinating closely with head contractors and facilities managers, and delivering documentation to the standard the client expects.
Sector
What we do in education and public sector
New-build institutional work
Universities, polytechnics, schools, and early childhood facilities. Specified Resene systems on plasterboard, blockwork, exposed precast, steel, and timber joinery. Coordination with the head contractor's master programme and the institution's commissioning date.
Refurbishment in working campuses
Repaints of corridors, classrooms, halls, libraries, and accommodation blocks scheduled into term breaks and holiday windows. Out-of-hours work where the brief requires it.
Institutional and public-sector procurment
Tendered work to public-sector standards with the documentation to match. Site reports, health and safety packs, induction records, and material data sheets delivered to the standard a facilities manager or head contractor expects to see at audit.
Sampling and colour matching
Public buildings require careful consideration before any product goes on the building. We visit the site, propose the colour match in writing, before any committed work begins.
Sector
Selected work
Featured projects
New-build institutional work delivered to the architect's specification, coordinated with the head contractor, and completed in time for the academic year.
A full interior fit-out: over 1,170 square metres of new gib stopping to Level 4, painting to more than 1,175 square metres of walls, 288 square metres of ceilings, 11 internal doors, and specialist wet area finishes throughout.
Line marking to the interior sprint track, close to 400 linear metres with a primer coat and two top coats of Mondo H21B elastomeric paint on Sportflex athletic track flooring. An application that sits well outside standard painting work.
A refurbishment across interior and exterior. Level 4 stopping and painting to new gib, and an exterior programme across Linea weatherboard, three-colour Stria feature boards, glulam columns and beams in Resene Natural Wood Oil, fascia, soffits, and veranda posts.
Interior painting of the Otakaro lecture theatres at the Dovedale Campus. Ceilings and walls in Resene 1/8 Black White, Resene Blackjack on the darker architectural elements, and colour introduced through deliberate blocking to dado and skirting areas only.
Coverage
Nationwide, travelling from seven bases.
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Tell us about the project, the academic calendar or the consent status, and the procurement route. We will arrange a site walk and send a written quote with the proposed system and programme.