About Us

Ask Metro Ltd is 100% NZ owned, with 30 professional staff and an approved supplier network dedicated to keeping your property portfolio running smoothly. Servicing the Auckland area from Orewa to Pukekohe, we take the worry of facilities maintenance off your hands.

Building and property maintenance experts

Ask Metro offer a full service team of building and property maintenance professionals including carpenters, builders, electricians, plumbers, painters, gib stoppers, tilers, landscapers, and cleaners to take complete care of your property assets.

Our management team provide expertise and experience in the areas of leadership, project estimation and resourcing and logistics, and are fully supported by our in-house administration and human resource team. Our people have a positive and flexible approach to problem solving and embrace the opportunity to create and continually build relationships with our key clients and partners.

We operate a robust building maintenance team who can respond 24/7 to security issues and disasters caused by adverse weather conditions in addition to general property maintenance and repair work. They are dedicated to ensuring that properties are secured safely and insurance reinstatement work is carried out in an efficient and timely manner, with minimal inconvenience to our clients and their businesses.

In addition to our own staff Ask Metro also employs specialists for particular tasks from our list of approved contractors and service providers. To work for Ask Metro, these sub-contractors and suppliers must satisfy our company that they are qualified to carry out the tasks to our high level of quality workmanship.

Ask Metro is a Business Member of the Certified Builders Association of New Zealand, the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation, Site Safe and Builtin New Zealand. These memberships are an endorsement of our trade skills, ethics and integrity.

Our trade staff are all trade certified or registered in their respective disciplines.

Our Mission

Is to provide our customers with exceptional workmanship, extraordinary service, and professional integrity.

Company Promise

Ask Metro’s promise to you

A commitment to uncompromising quality and a proven track record

Ask Metro is built on a proud history of providing quality building services with close attention to detail. The key to any successful project for Ask Metro is balancing key stakeholder’s requirements, budget and time constraints, with maintaining control over environmental factors, site-specific controls, health and safety, and industry best practice.

Quality control checks are carried out throughout projects, and at completion, through inspection of work, as daily site meetings with all site staff, and regular meetings with stakeholders.

Our control is a commitment to quality-expressed-training for personnel, shifting the responsibility for detecting defects from quality control inspectors to workers, and continually maintaining equipment.

We manage subcontractor performance by establishing, prior to commencement on site, project requirements and quality expectations at start-up meetings. We are proactive in providing quality assessment and feedback to our subcontractors through evaluation sessions during and at the conclusion of the project.

Additionally, material suppliers are also required to insure zero defects in delivered goods.

Ask Metro Quality Policy

The management of Ask Metro Ltd is committed to providing quality response to construction, reinstatement and call out services for property development, maintenance and insurance reinstatement.

To achieve this goal we will;

Meet requirements defined by statutory and regulatory requirements, and industry associations
Understand and meet the requirements of clients by providing services and deliverables that are technically sound and are responsive to clients’ needs
Provide leadership to establish quality standards and to ensure all stakeholders ‘buy in’ into the process
Facilitate continuous improvement of product and service quality throughout our supply chain
Ensure complete involvement of employees to enable their abilities to be used to the benefit of the organisation
Establish and maintain an adequate inspection system and perform inspections that will ensure contract compliance.

These quality objectives and goal will be reviewed on a regular basis for continued suitability.

The responsibility of quality is shared by all staff and management and is adopted as an integral part of everyday work.

David Earl,

Operations Manager.

OSH Policy

Ask Metro Health & Safety philosophy

Health and safety is paramount to us. Senior Management believe that the safety and wellbeing of all staff, contractors, building tenants and users is an integral and vital part of the successful performance of Ask Metro operations.

“Taking care of our people and our clients”

Ask Metro are members of Site Safe, and all supervisors have the Site Safe Supervisor Gold Card. Site Safe is membership based, not-for-profit, and caters to the construction and related industries in New Zealand.

The procedures and processes covered in our comprehensive Health and Safety Manual (copy available on request) are translated through to site level through our site managers who are responsible for the implementation, monitoring, and enforcement of health and safety requirements.

Ask Metro Health & Safety Policy

The Management of Ask Metro Ltd is committed to providing and maintaining a safe and healthy working environment for its employees, visitors, and all persons using the premises as a place of work.

To ensure a safe and healthy working environment, Management will:

Set health and safety objectives and performance criteria for all managers and work areas
Actively encourage the accurate and timely reporting, recording and investigating of all workplace incidents and injuries
Provide support for injured employees that ensures a safe, early and durable return to work
Identify, assess and control all existing and new hazards in the workplace, to which employees and others are or may be exposed
Ensure that all employees are made aware of the hazards in their work area and are adequately trained to enable them to perform their duties in a safe manner
Promote a system of continuous improvement, including the annual review of policies and procedures
Meet our obligations under the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 and other legislation, Standards, Codes of Practice and Guidelines providing for the health and safety of people at work
Consult with unions and other nominated employee representatives in managing workplace health and safety.

Managers will work in partnership with employees to ensure they all have the opportunity to participate in the above process, and will respond promptly to all health and safety concerns raised.

Individual employees will meet their obligation to take all practicable steps to ensure their own and others health and safety, and are encouraged to become actively involved in assisting managers achieve a healthy and safe workplace. Employees will co-operate and report hazards and other sub-standard conditions, accidents and near misses, to their manager.

NO JOB IS SO URGENT THAT THERE IS INSUFFICIENT TIME TO DO IT SAFELY.

David Earl,

Operations Manager

Sustainability

Environment & Sustainability Policy

Ask Metro Ltd is committed to introducing measures into its everyday operations to increase the sustainability of our environment. The responsibility for managing and maintaining this policy lies with each and every member of our staff.

“Undertaking to protect the country we live in”

Ask Metro aims to be an environmentally and socially conscious and responsible company. To carry out this commitment, it is our policy to strive to ensure that all aspects of the organisation have the least harmful effect on the environment by adopting and implementing environmentally sensitive practices in all of our operations.

To enable this, Ask Metro will:

Identify, implement and promote best practice environmental management systems and operations
Be committed to operating in an ecologically sustainable manner by reducing waste and the use of energy and resources
Provide an environmentally sound workplace, and implement environmentally sound work practices
Work closely with its employees, clients and the community to develop and implement agreed environmental initiatives
Encourage suppliers, contractors and vendors to act in accordance with our environmental standards
Be fully aware of all environmental legislation and ensure that regulatory requirements are met and, where feasible, improved upon
Monitor the implementation of our policy by carrying out periodic audits and, when appropriate, introduce remedial measures
Communicate our environmental management and implement a process of continuous improvement.

In addition, areas of particular attention within the organisation will be the selection of non-polluting technology, waste minimisation, reuse/recycling and the reduction of energy consumption.

Ask Metro will also makes a positive environmental contribution in the local community by encouraging open communication, general environmental awareness and the promotion of community projects.

David Earl

Operations Manager

15 YEARS OF DEDICATION

Accreditation & Awards

From building construction through electrical work, plumbing, plastering, painting, carpeting and adding the finishing touches like spouting and door handles, the Ask Metro team will ensure that everything happens in a timely manner, and to a very high standard.