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Energy efficient,environmentally responsible, prebuilt and modular NZ homes.

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Why Árbol? Enjoy a warmer, drier, healthier home and move in sooner.

Every Arbol home is built using proven European low‑energy design principles and materials to create a home that feels better to live in-warm, dry, quiet, and healthy.

Performance features include:

  • Over 50% more insulation than NZ Building Code
  • Airtight building envelope for stable indoor temperatures
  • Continuous fresh‑air ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR)
  • uPVC European tilt‑and‑turn joinery with Low‑E glazing
  • Reduced‑toxicity materials for healthier indoor air quality

The result is a home with low energy use, low humidity, and long‑lasting, high‑quality finishes-without compromise.

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Our homes are a minimum 50% more insulated than the new H1 building code standard. The New Zealand building code only requires R1.3 insulation under the floor of your new home, we offer at minimum R3.8 - all the way through to R7 for our NZSIP builds. Result? A year round comfier living environment with reduced power bills.

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We have the systems, materials and professional team in place to ensure your new home is ready without delay.

Manufacturing your new home in our Cromwell facility allows us to seamlessly build your home at speed without compromising on the quality.

We are here to help you with the complete process - from choosing the correct abode for your lifestyle and budget, customisation, transport, foundations, consents, on and off-grid services.

We are renders and words, but a professional off-site high performance housing manufacturer with over 5 years and 36+ successfully completed projects under our belt and counting - we have the data and client feedback to back up our claims.

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Árbol's responsibility is to positively impact our environment, by reducing excess waste, choosing eco & natural alternatives were possible and using local certified suppliers.

All builds feature - Dulux low VOC paints, NZ Wool carpets, TerraLana Wool insulation for the service cavity, and reclaimed or sustainably sourced hardwood cladding.

We utilise a systematic 8 avenue process of landfill reduction - firstly with well thought out plans and repetition to minimise waste, this is followed with utilising off-cuts - followed by separate collection centres for recycling of hard-plastics, soft-plastics, metal, GIB, cardboard, and Polystyrene.

We want to ensure your family has a healthier living environment, in and out of your new home.

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The Árbol Difference™

We build healthy, high-performance, low-energy use, environmentally responsible, reduced maintenance prebuilt and modular NZ homes. They are fully finished in our Cromwell facility, ready for delivery New Zealand wide.

Árbol In The Wild (Recent Projects)

We have delivered abodes throughout New Zealand, from Cromwell, Napier, Martinborough, Carterton, Seddonville, Alexandra, Roxburgh, Glenorchy, Kinloch, Wanaka, Papatowai, Queenstown, Canterbury, Te Anau, Lake Ohau and all the way up to Tutukaka in the far North Island.

Testimonials

" Had such a wonderful first night in the house last night. We're totally stoked. Such a beautiful dwelling. Thanks for such an amazing product, you guys should be very proud! "

Grant Norbury
Beech, Alexandra - 2023

" Couldn’t ask for a more amazing team to be building our home ❤️ "

Holly Tatom-Cross
Rātā, Gibbston Valley - 2023

" We are so happy with our one. The guys are so wonderful to work with in fact sometimes I miss them. "

Gemma McDonnell
Rātā, Lake Hawea - 2022

" It feels very special to us!

The loft is a favorite spot for the kids visiting. It's like an indoor treee house where all the magic happens! :) "

Esther Song
Rātā, Martinborough - 2022

" The cabin is looking fantastic, great job. "

Elisa Chan
Rātā, Glenorchy - 2023

" We continue to love our house. So warm, cozy, and just lovely to live in. "

Grant Norbury
September 2024