We Build Homes That Last a Lifetime
We Build Homes That Last a Lifetime
Howard Construction are a Christchurch building company specialising in high-quality architectural homes. We don’t build cookie-cutter houses, we build homes specifically designed to your needs and tailor our services to work with your ideas in mind.
Howard Construction are a Christchurch building company specialising in high-quality architectural homes. We don’t build cookie-cutter houses, we build homes specifically designed to your needs and tailor our services to work with your ideas in mind.
ABOUT US
Who We Are?
Owner/Operator Stu Howard started out as a farm boy in Kaikoura, “Mum always said I was born with a hammer in my hand, as I was growing up there was never any doubt I would become a builder. After 20 years in the trade, I now lead my own team of extremely large boys, an interior designer wife who keeps things looking pretty, an operations manager who runs my life and several groups of subcontractors whom I have complete trust in to do the job right first time, and then very occasionally, I even get the odd weekend away to go hunting. Life is good.”
ABOUT US
Who We Are?
Owner/Operator Stu Howard started out as a farm boy in Kaikoura, “Mum always said I was born with a hammer in my hand, as I was growing up there was never any doubt I would become a builder. After 20 years in the trade, I now lead my own team of extremely large boys, an interior designer wife who keeps things looking pretty, an operations manager who runs my life, and several groups of subcontractors whom I have complete trust in to do the job right the first time, and then very occasionally, I even get the odd weekend away to go hunting. Life is good.”
ABOUT US
Our Attitude
Your home is a big deal and a huge expense. It’s really up there with babies and marriages in terms of life milestone! So it’s important that you are looked after throughout the process and your money is well spent on something that will look great and stand the test of time.
We have friendly approachable guys. We get the job done right. We deal with your queries. We see your excitement with the end results. We are hands on, so if you want a builder in a swish suit with a big office you’ve come to the wrong guys.
We want you to enjoy your building experience. We work off referrals and we are always busy, so it’s our absolute priority that you are happy with our speed and quality of work.
ABOUT US
Our Attitude
Your home is a big deal and a huge expense. It’s really up there with babies and marriages in terms of life milestones! So it’s important that you are looked after throughout the process and your money is well spent on something that will look great and stand the test of time.
We have friendly approachable guys. We get the job done right. We deal with your queries. We see your excitement with the end results. We are hands-on, so if you want a builder in a swish suit with a big office you’ve come to the wrong guys.
We want you to enjoy your building experience. We work off referrals and we are always busy, so it’s our absolute priority that you are happy with our speed and quality of work.
TEAM
Our Team
TEAM
Our Team
What Does Howard Construction Offer?
What Does Howard Construction Offer?
"Thanks to Stu & his amazing band of trades people. We just love it & would recommend Stu Howard to the Queen. His eye for detail is Amazing. I remember him saying just leave the worries to me. And there wasn’t at any time a ….. not sure about that…… it was no problem team will sort that. Such a neat man.
Cannot thank you all enough."
The Woodhams
A huge THANK YOU! We are delighted with our new home and couldn’t be happier with the outcome. Thank you for taking on us this wild journey and although we may have had some strange ideas and faltered a little at the start we have been impressed with the overall smoothness of the build and the team that have put everything together.
We are very, very pleased."
The Mansons
Without hesitation, we would build with Howard Construction again. The Howard Construction team made the complex and daunting process of building as smooth as possible – they were generous with their time and advice, were always friendly and happy to hear from us, and ensured the work was completed to the high standard that is the Howard Construction standard.
A friend recently commented that we’re the only people he knows who would happily build again with their builder, and it’s true! If we weren’t so in love with the Howard Construction built house that we’re in now, we’d build with them again in an instant.
Thank you Stu, Bobbie and Bex.
Eleanor & Jakub
We came to Stu with plans for our new home that we loved – but bore little resemblance to our original budget.
We consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to have found Stu and his team right at that point when the dream of building our new home was beginning to look like it might not be able to be realised. From the first conversation Stu was incredibly engaged with our project, our focus on energy efficiency and aesthetics as well as sensitive to our budget.
He seemed to genuinely relish the challenge of helping us to figure out how to make our plans a reality and never stopped looking for ways to bring efficiencies and possible cost-savings to our project. It quickly became apparent that Stu was more than just a safe pair of hands for our build – but the kind of guy we could really enjoy working with. Throughout the build, Stu impressed us with his patience, guidance, technical expertise, aesthetic understanding and proactive communication.
We’ve lived in our home for more than a year now and it’s already given us everything we were hoping for in terms of lifestyle, enjoyment and efficiency – so it’s a massive thanks from us to Stu and the Howard Construction team for delivering our vision.
George & Abby Wills
We would absolutely recommend Stu and his team. From the outset when we met with Stu and Bobby we were impressed by their ideas, friendliness, and commitment to excellence. They helped us create the home we wanted, and now almost a year later, their is nothing we would change about our house.
Stu maintained excellent communication throughout our build, with every detail a collaboration under his expert guidance. Every one of the team and subbies were friendly and helpful, and seemed really committed to ensuring that our build went smoothly and successfully. Furthermore despite attention to detail being top of their agenda, we got into our house early.
The Jansens
GW Houses Ltd has engaged Howard Construction to build numerous residential houses for us over the last three years. We have found Stu & his team deliver a show home quality product every time of which our purchasers all comment upon. Stu & his team are approachable on site which makes the building process more enjoyable and enables you to be more involved if you wish.
Inevitably there are changes during construction & Stu works hard to resolve them cost effectively and with solutions that meet the building code & good practice. This helps greatly when you are towards the end of the build and don’t need hold ups around the issue of the Code of Compliance Certificate from the local authority. Stu works hard to get builds within his quotation and will often put forward ideas & alterations which deliver the same result but more cost effectively. We have no problems recommending Howard Construction as long as it does not hold up our future builds with him.
Dean Gregory
"Thanks to Stu & his amazing band of tradespeople. We just love it & would recommend Stu Howard to the Queen. His eye for detail is Amazing. I remember him saying just leave the worries to me. And there wasn’t at any time a ….. not sure about that…… it was no problem team will sort that. Such a neat man.
Cannot thank you all enough."
The Woodhams
A huge THANK YOU! We are delighted with our new home and couldn’t be happier with the outcome. Thank you for taking on us this wild journey and although we may have had some strange ideas and faltered a little at the start we have been impressed with the overall smoothness of the build and the team that have put everything together.
The Mansons
Without hesitation, we would build with Howard Construction again. The Howard Construction team made the complex and daunting process of building as smooth as possible – they were generous with their time and advice, were always friendly and happy to hear from us, and ensured the work was completed to the high standard that is the Howard Construction standard.
A friend recently commented that we’re the only people he knows who would happily build again with their builder, and it’s true! If we weren’t so in love with the Howard Construction built house that we’re in now, we’d build with them again in an instant. Thank you Stu, Bobbie
Eleanor & Jakub
We would absolutely recommend Stu and his team. From the outset when we met with Stu and Bobby we were impressed by their ideas, friendliness, and commitment to excellence. They helped us create the home we wanted, and now almost a year later, their is nothing we would change about our house.
Stu maintained excellent communication throughout our build, with every detail a collaboration under his expert guidance. Every one of the team and subbies were friendly and helpful, and seemed really committed to ensuring that our build went smoothly and successfully. Furthermore despite attention to detail being top of their agenda, we got into our house early.
The Jansens
GW Houses Ltd has engaged Howard Construction to build numerous residential houses for us over the last three years. We have found Stu & his team deliver a show home quality product every time of which our purchasers all comment upon. Stu & his team are approachable on site which makes the building process more enjoyable and enables you to be more involved if you wish.
Stu works hard to get builds within his quotation and will often put forward ideas & alterations which deliver the same result but more cost effectively. We have no problems recommending Howard Construction as long as it does not hold up our future builds with him.
Dean Gregory