Mainland firm takes on Auckland market
The company will be coming up against rivals like Fletcher Building, Hawkins and Naylor Love.
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Leighs Construction is tackling the Auckland market and has appointed Jeff Vivian as Auckland operations manager where he will seek work for the company.
Leighs was started by Anthony Leighs about 20 years ago in Christchurch. He says he is looking beyond the Christchurch rebuild and wants to build a presence in Auckland to carry out multi-million dollar projects.
The company will be coming up against rivals like Fletcher Building, Hawkins and Naylor Love.
Leighs works in all construction sectors. Current projects in Canterbury include the central city’s new ANZ and BNZ centres, Rangi Ruru Girls’ School Blue Skies Development, The Hub, plus the Burwood Health Campus in Christchurch one of the largest hospital building projects in New Zealand’s public health service.
Leighs is a construction company rather than developer.
Mr Vivian has a background in project delivery. In 2014, he was the NZIOB’s supreme award winner for his project management of Te Uru Taumatua, Tūhoe, which was the first project in New Zealand to adhere to the stringent Living Building challenge system.
Leighs also recently appointed a commercial manager with Auckland experience – Paul O’Brien. Mr O’Brien is chairman of the Auckland branch of the Institute of Quantity Surveyors and sits on a number of industry organisations.
Chris Hutching for NBR NZ Property Investor
Fri, 27 Feb 2015
Fri, 27 Feb 2015
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