Meshing experience and technology at Waikato’s largest hospital Hawkins has started construction on the $118 million Waikato Clinical Centre, the most complex part of the overall Waikato Hospital Service and Campus redevelopment project, and the largest hospital project ever undertaken in the Waikato/Bay of Plenty region... More>>		Flexible Steelpipe Large diameter steel pipe is heavy and cumbersome - so it is somewhat incongruous that Steelpipe’s edge in the market is its flexibility. Most piling or piping tenders in New Zealand are priced on 12 metre lengths and bulk transport to site. Steelpipe, competing with offshore manufacturers, first and foremost, has to win on price...  More>>

McConnell Group launches McConnell Funds Management Launched this September, McConnell Funds Management is the culmination of a strategic decision to introduce a fund to the market which invests outside the traditional approach of buying and holding property.... More>>		McConnell Property on Track McConnell Property is providing development management services for Stage One of the Kawarau Falls Station Resort in Queenstown. Guy Rodger, McConnell Property Senior Project Manager, says that the McConnell Property team (which also includes Martin Daniels, Dean Shields, Adriaan Vlok and Kate Watts)... More>>

Green All Over! In mid 2010 New Zealand’s greenest office building will be opened in Christchurch. The Christchurch Civic Building building, jointly owned by Ngai Tahu Property and the Christchurch City Council, has just been assessed by the New Zealand Green Building Council as having the most ‘Green Star’ points for design of any building in New Zealand... More>>		'Open Spaces' Big and Small Hawkins Open Spaces has spent its first eight months of existence making the most of a broad array of landscape construction and management opportunities. Walkways, school landscapes, highway re-vegetation projects with potential opportunities for foreshore restoration and even zoo enclosures... More>>

Introducing Mike Wardle Mike’s motto could well be ‘seize the day’... he swears that he wakes up every morning feeling good about going to work, as Chief Financial Officer for McConnell Group. Strange for a guy who, at university, said he would never do cost accounting (which included contract accounting for construction)! ... More>> Largest Development phase for Addison Infrastructure for the next phase of Addison, a McConnell Property master planned community located in Takanini in Auckland, is almost complete. Known as ‘The Avenues’, all roading, lighting, pipework, signage and section requirements will soon be in place so that house construction can ensue... More>>		New Faces Dan Ashby (pictured) has been appointed Hawkins Construction’s Auckland Regional Manager, with long-time leader, Don Young, taking on a new National Operations Manager role prior to his retirement at the end of this year. Dan has been working with the Auckland team for the past few months and is looking forward to building on the many successes achieved under Don’s highly regarded leadership... More>>