The Lakes House

The remoteness of this house and the weather conditions made this house a real challenge at times however Farmbuild is always up for a good challenge.

The Gums

Well this stunning homestead was originally design by Warren and Mahoney who have excelled for many years and places like this are why. This house is absolutely timeless.

Waikari

Well after building their beautiful home at The Lake Station Ted and Sandi Phipps again chose FarmBuild to help design and build their new architectural home at Waikari.

Stonyhurst Station

Well this was a very interesting project for us as we did everything from start to finish with Peter Douglas-Clifford (Owner) working with us. This is the only project that we have done where...

Mendip Managers

This is an excellent plan that we spent some time developing and have built a number of. It has a large living area with separate lounge, four bedrooms master with ensuite and an...

Torrent Bay

The location of this build made it a challenge and I suggest you look through the photos as there are some beauties. The only access was by either boat or helicopter so organizational skills...

Black Rock

This beautiful two storey homestead was built in the Ethelton valley on the site where the old homestead uses to be.

West Melton

This house was built on a large lifestyle block and was built for the sun and views in every area. It had a designer kitchen with granite tops and was fitted out to the highest standards and fittings...

Shearers Quarters

Snowdon Station

A lot of time was spent on the original design and working with Roy and Annabel on their individual requirements. Annabel and Roy had put a lot of thought into this shed and new exactly what...

Stonyhurst Station

Yet again working on Stonyhurst Station all concrete was made on site and all timber was milled off the property making this another challenging project. This large six stand shed...

Mendip Hills Station

After the old woolshed was burnt to the ground we were given the task of designing and building their new woolshed and covered yards. The sheep come for the covered yards which is all...

Middlehurst

Middlehurst was an exceptional project set in a well established, operational yard. Set to incorporate a new woolshed complex in conjunction with involving the existing woolshed...

Chatham Islands

This was a real challenge with everything being produced in our workshop then trucked to Napier and shipped to the Chatham Islands. This was a simple 5 stand shed with...

Bennetts

This is our most popular design and one that we build the most of. The covered yards are set on an angle from the shed with a circular feed in so that the sheep flow well into the drafting...

Mason Hills

This is our most popular design and one that we build the most of. The covered yards are set on an angle from the shed with a circular feed in so that the sheep flow well into the drafting...

The Gums Station

This is our most popular design and one that we build the most of. The covered yards are set on an angle from the shed with a circular feed in so that the sheep flow well into the drafting...

Woodbank Station

This is our most popular design and one that we build the most of. The covered yards are set on an angle from the shed with a circular feed in so that the sheep flow well into the drafting...

Medway Springs

This is our most popular design and one that we build the most of. The covered yards are set on an angle from the shed with a circular feed in so that the sheep flow well into the drafting...

Gore Bay

Waipara North Canterbury

From the covered yards the sheep feed up into the woolshed which has three easy fill circular catching pens with enough area to hold an extra fill in behind them. The U shape raised hardwood...

Okains

This little build was designed for the hobby farmer or lifestyle block with two stands straight board and straight plain catching pen area. Flat board inside rectangle shed...

McKenzie Shed

Pemberly

This huge covered yards was designed to cater for the large stock flow of a thousand acre pivot irrigated fattening block. There is so much that goes on within these yards drafting, weighing...

Bell

Well Albert Bell knew exactly what he wanted and drew a small plan on a piece of paper for us to design and build around. The main working area was set in the middle of the shed...

Coleridge Downs

These covered yards were design to provide extra holding capacity for the existing woolshed as well as handling facilities for the harsh weather that the Rakaia Gorge can produce...

Nape Nape

These covered yards were design to provide extra holding capacity for the existing woolshed as well as handling facilities and protection from the weather. The handling area was put on the...

Bennetts

With all covered yards, FarmBuild caters for each farmer’s individual needs and required holding capacities. With so much time now spent working with stock in any covered yards...

The Gums

With all covered yards, FarmBuild caters for each farmer’s individual needs and required holding capacities. With so much time now spent working with stock in any covered yards...

Mason Hills

With all covered yards, FarmBuild caters for each farmer’s individual needs and required holding capacities. With so much time now spent working with stock in any covered yards...

Woodbank

With all covered yards, FarmBuild caters for each farmer’s individual needs and required holding capacities. With so much time now spent working with stock in any covered yards...

Gore Bay

With all covered yards, FarmBuild caters for each farmer’s individual needs and required holding capacities. With so much time now spent working with stock in any covered yards...

Meares

Contracting on a large scale in rural areas can be a challenging operation.This building caters for big and small machinery from 35 t diggers, Bull dozers to a lawnmower. This workshop...

Honey Factory

This project came to us as a large extension to an existing shed to create a substantial sized honey storage and processing facility.

Mendip Station

With a large farming operation a lot happens in this area and it is important that everything has its place and area. The workshop area has a large amount of bench space both for working...

Stonyhurst

Well there has been a very long working relationship at Stonyhurst Station for Generations both on the Douglas Clifford side and the FarmBuild side.

Chappell Workshop

The neat little set up works well on a small lifestyle block with the workshop at one end and two bays for storage / parking for cars or farm machinery...

Balmoral

This is a proven design of yards which we have constructed multiple sets. Together with farm owners, managers and Farmbuild’s knowledge we have created and fine-tuned this layout...

Eyrewell

This multi use set of cattle yards was set up knowing the intension for this area to be the Hub of the Ngai Tahu farming operation.

Ngai Tahu

This large set of cattle yards are fully concreted to falls to make it easy to work in and clean due to the high through put of stock. Designed with large holding pen feeding into a forcing race...

Ngai Tahu Balmoral State Highway

This set of yards has been set up to cater for the northern Ngai Tahu block right on the road side of State Highway #7 in North Canterbury.

Mendip

This large set of cattle yards was built on a compacted base with nova-flow put through at .900mm spacings to drain any water straight out. The main centre pen are means that stock can be...

Pemberly

Pemberly farm is a high velocity sheep and Beef finishing unit just outside of Kirwee in Canterbury. Time and efficiency is a major element for an operation of this calibre...

10 Bay Utility Farm Shed

This shed measuring 45m long x 12m deep was constructed to serve at the hub of a 400ha farming operation in Central Otago.

Cranford Street Shed 1

This was an existing build that was extremely damaged by the 2010 earthquake. Farmbuild was employed to repair this building then reclad in new coloursteel and install new roller doors.

Cranford Street Shed 2

This building was designed for the storage of a very large amount of produce at certain times of the year as well as multi use in off peak times for the storage of plant and equipment.

The Lakes

We designed and built two fertilizer sheds at The Lakes Station one at each of their airstrips. These are designed to store the fertilizer in a dry location and need to be built good and strong...

McKenzie

This is a little one stand shed that we fitted into an existing hayshed on a lifestyle block. The shed works very well for a small number of sheep for both the shearer and the penning up.

Mendip Fuel / Dangerous Goods Shed

This area is located close to the existing workshop and is mainly for the fuel station for the entire operation. This is designed to meet all requirements with a full spill holding capacity...

The Lakes

This is a typical FarmBuild hayshed that is designed to the owners requirements. This little shed has one bay at the end that is fitted with a concrete floor, roller door and man door...

Market Garden

This building was designed specifically for the market garden situation with a three bay workshop area with concrete floor and three phase power which also doubled as a drying room...

3 Bay Hayshed

This three bay hayshed is constructed in a high wind and snow load area. You will notice that in the centre of each bay a extra post has been added to give the back wall more support when...

6 Bay Hayshed

This six bay shed was constructed on a dairy farm for the storage of hay and feed. It was a pole construction with 150 x 50 wall rails and 200 x 50 roof purlins...

10 Bay Calf Shed

This ten bay calf shed built on a dairy farm was for the housing of young calves with each bay fenced of with a large opening gate at the front...

Snellex

THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS - This North Canterbury Stable/ House complex was designed with multi uses in mind. Complete with 2 double bed rooms, one bathroom, a separate toilet...

Blast Lodge

For a large stud complex this is the Rolls Royce setup. The U shape design site to face the north sun made for a pleasant sunny sheltered area which also made it limited walking distance from...

Pierson

This complex was designed to add on to an existing hayshed to provide horse stabling. We design this in our horseshoe shape to provide protection form the wind and also limit walk-in...

The Lakes

Ted wanted this area for him and other staff to work with the large number of horses they have on the Station. They do everything in this area from shoeing the horse to saddling up and preparing...

Shelter Shed

These small shelter shed are design for protection within the paddock for stock to get shelter in a stock to get shelter in all kinds of weather...

Mendip Hills

This was an interesting project with us going down to the Wallis Family’s Minaret Station in Wanaka to view and discuss their shed before designing and planning this one. It’s very...

Mendip Hills

This set was set at the bottom end of the farm and we converting the existing three bay hayshed. Good outside holding capacity works well prior to the stock leading into the shed...