Amidst the chaos of the first day of Junior Surf at Omanu Beach Surf Life Saving Club, and a beach humming with activity on Sunday November 1, a call came in from Coastguard New Zealand alerting the lifesaving team to a kayak sinking 400m off shore. Within minutes the club launched an inflatable Rescue Boat (IRB) and powered through the large surf towards a kayak paddle waving in the air that one of the crew members spotted. The two kayakers were clinging to their half-submerged craft – but thankfully were wearing lifejackets. This combined with being able to keep their…

Portacom buildings are an excellent option for any temporary or longer-term sites, events and constructions that might need extra building spaces. Most commonly used at construction sites, portacom buildings can also be used at concerts, community projects, events, and large-scale installations. Read on to find out the most common uses and how they can best help your specific site or project. Site Offices Practical, compact and portable site offices are a necessity at many construction sites. They are ideal for working across all seasons providing a comfortable and professional place to work from and secure important documents and records. Portacom…

A productive worksite has space to store documents, accommodates workers and provides room to design, plan and deliberate. Instead of trying to work out of a makeshift building or a company car, your site really needs a portable building as its site office. Designed, built and ready to be shipped across NZ’s upper North Island, Just Sheds has just what you need. Here’s what makes our relocatable buildings the perfect option for your temporary office. They keep your documents safe If you have any sensitive paperwork or confidential documents, you need somewhere safe to store them. All of our portable…

From concerts to festivals to sporting events, Auckland hosts endless events throughout the year. Whether you are hosting an international superstar, offering a fun day out for local families or anything in between, almost every occasion in the city can benefit from a portable building hire. Here’s why your next event should include a relocatable building from Just Sheds. Be a good host If your event involves musicians, artists or performers of any kind, you need to provide them with a space to change, relax and hide away from the crowd in between shows. Offering your main attraction a comfortable,…

With snow on the Desert Road and skiers heading to the slopes, winter is well and truly here in the North Island. While the cold weather is great when you’re curled up by the fire, it can be a hard time of year for staff on temporary work sites, making quality, insulated portable buildings an absolute necessity. Here’s some tips on keeping your workers warm in winter. Hire a portable smoko room If you’ve got staff working outside in winter, offering them a warm and comfortable space to take a break is essential. This is where they can escape the…

We’d like to say a big kiwi “Good On Ya” to our good friends at Project Kiwi! We’ve been helping them out along with a number of locals, by sitting on the hills in the dark and listening out for kiwi calls for their annual Kiwi Call Survey in the Coromandel area. The data is collated and assessed to determine what it means, and the implications for future practice to ensure the kiwi population in the Coromandel thrives. Some of the great results for the Kiwi Call Survey 2020 included: • One male kiwi recorded in the Waitaia Loop Track…

As fans of great coffee, we were excited to help build a “pop-up” Café / Showroom for Aria Bay – a special boutique lifestyle retirement community development in Browns Bay, Auckland. Our client fitted the portable building out as a showroom, sales office and cafe, complete with a sunny deck and seating – and also made it open to the public. Supplied as a 12m x 3m unit with three windows and three bi-fold doors, it was a very heavy portable building – but we were proud to deliver and install it safely earlier this year.

Just days before the COVID-19 lockdown, we were approached and asked if we could help supply additional consulting rooms to a doctors surgery for urgent COVID-19 testing. As we’re aways keen to Do Good for our community, we contacted our suppliers and made arrangements for the urgent delivery of materials so we could construct and deliver our portable buildings for hire as testing stations to them at 7.30am on 23 March 2020, just before New Zealand went into full lockdown. The doctors were extremely grateful that we could supply them with two sparkling-clean brand new 6m x 3m offices with…

We’re really proud of Jake and Tom from the Just Sheds team… who went for “a bit of a swim” and swam from Motiti Island to Papamoa! In straight line that’s just over 9kms, but we think by the time they zig-zagged around the current it would have been closer to a 12km swim. Great stuff boys – just like your SLSNZ support crew and the team at Just Sheds – you’re always going the extra mile!

Our annual NZIOB Golf Day really was tee-rific “Olympic-sized” fun… even though we didn’t put on an Olympic performance. While it was a very hot day, we’re not blaming the heat for our scorecard… we had some hot competition on the course who deserved to beat us, but we did score some wine as our booby prize. Hopefully our fishing skills won’t be on a par with our golfing skills in the upcoming fishing competition…!