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Te Pā Harakeke recently won the award for Stormwater Project of the Year at the Stormwater Conference & Expo in Wellington. The Taylors Contracting Civil team were responsible for introducing innovative engineering solutions to Te Pā Harakeke. The project had an extremely tight budget and was conducted under the glare of high public interest (due…

Taylors Contracting has successfully completed its first 3,000 tonne rock export from Port Tarakohe to the lower North Island due to careful planning in response to resource consent requirements and site constraints. Just over 21,200 tonne of rock was extracted from Taylors’ privately-owned Balcks Quarry in just 79 work days to comply with the quarry’s…

We’re very proud to be contributing to community safety and weather resilience through our work on Te Awa Kairangi (formerly known as RiverLink). As a result of the work being undertaken the stop bank is being widened and its height increased. When combined with other Te Awa Kairangi programme projects, such as widening the river, protection will…

Well done to members of our team (Andrew, Shane and Steve) who responded so quickly and decisively to lend assistance to suppress a fire in the Appleby area on 12 December. Conditions were difficult and windy and their swift actions on the day made all the difference. Our team was working on a neighbouring site…

Two scrapers working on the same site is a rare sight. Here’s a recent video from the Blairich project Taylors is working on in Marlborough for client Whitehaven Wine Company. Tim Smit from Marlborough Management Services is the project engineer.

A promise made to a friend before he passed away prompted Taylors Contracting Rivers Department supervisor Iain ‘Hoggy’ Hogg to get the annual check ups that may have saved his life. “I had a good friend who was diagnosed with cancer in his late 40s,” says Hoggy. “He was only 50 when he died. Prostate…

Taylors Contracting’s Gabby Marshall credits a Movember men’s health prompt from his workplace for the prostate examination that may have saved his life. “I had high uric acid levels because I had gout and I was at the doctor getting a repeat prescription. I said to him can I get a PSA test? He asked…

Joe Edwards has joined the Taylors Contracting board, replacing retiring director Steve Hart. Joe has a particular passion for workplace health and safety and says that one of the aspects of Taylors Contracting that he has long admired has been the way that the company cares for its staff. “A lot of my background has…