Hawkins is an established business with over six decades of building pedigree and stands as one of New Zealand’s largest privately owned construction and infrastructure companies.

Our business has evolved to become a diversified enterprise providing development, construction and environmental services across a broad range of sectors within the commercial and infrastructure markets. We are a truly national company with many of our projects featuring prominently in the New Zealand urban and rural landscape.

We understand the importance of the built environment to New Zealanders and its role in fostering a positive society. We place great importance on ensuring our projects leave a legacy of craftsmanship and endurance that not only enhances our local communities and cities but also provides long-term quality assets for our clients.

Our Approach

At Hawkins our aim is to provide construction excellence on every project and to ensure our clients and other stakeholders enjoy working with us along the way.

We view each project as a partnership. The partnering concept is defined by having quantifiable project goals, a clear definition and understanding of the project scope, an understanding and appropriate allocation of risks, agreement on risk/reward arrangement and skilled project staff.

For Hawkins the most important factor in the partnering relationship is well-defined communications through all levels conducted with respect, integrity and a “best for project” mentality. Hawkins prides itself in developing project leaders who can relate to and understand the needs of a wide variety of project stakeholders, and who can translate their various requirements into smarter thinking in delivering the project.

We strongly believe in putting the best person for the job on the job, every time.

Our Culture

To operate a profitable business over many decades requires constant delivery of results and an ability to build and retain enduring relationships. We value those people who make every effort to recognise the importance of teamwork, flexibility and responsiveness.

A key to the Hawkins dynamic is the company’s habit of throwing the team in the deep end every now and again. Hawkins does so with the utmost confidence that its team will not only swim, but thrive and grow under the pressure. Hawkins employees seem to love a challenge. It’s in our DNA.

We believe that the challenges presented by modern building projects generate great opportunities for smarter thinking and building excellence. Our growth has been driven by meeting these challenges, enabled by a culture of our people sharing knowledge freely within the organisation to maintain the high standards expected of Hawkins projects.