{"id":116562,"date":"2025-11-04T01:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116562\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T01:05:09","slug":"downer-new-zealand-makes-2-5b-revenue-profit-up-247-after-expenses-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/116562\/","title":{"rendered":"Downer New Zealand makes $2.5b revenue, profit up 247% after expenses fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

All up, expenses were down from $2.6b to $2.4b.<\/p>\n

In May, Hawkins was ranked the country\u2019s busiest builder.<\/p>\n

Hawkins, owned by ASX-listed Downer<\/a>, was working on $1.2b of work last year.<\/p>\n

Data specialist BCI Central released a list of the 50 most-active builders nationally, following a 2024 list<\/a> out last June and a 2023 inaugural list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hawkins was started by a Kiwi, Fred Hawkins, in his garage in the early 1940s.<\/p>\n

\"CraigCraig Treloar heads Hawkins. Photos \/ NZME<\/p>\n

Last year, Auckland Airport<\/a> said Hawkins would manage the construction and delivery of an $800m new domestic jet terminal building, an \u201ceconomic engine\u201d creating 2500 jobs at its peak.<\/p>\n

Hawkins\u2019 executive general manager is Craig Treloar.<\/p>\n

The airport is Hawkins\u2019 biggest job but Downer has won many road contracts, particularly for roads of national significance.<\/p>\n

In August, NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) named Downer New Zealand as the business for early contractor involvement on the Mill Road to Redoubt Road SH1 interchange to Hilltop Rd contract, valued at $59m. <\/p>\n

\"InsideInside the new Karanga-a-Hape Station for the City Rail Link. Photo \/ Auckland Council<\/p>\n

Also in August, Downer said it had signed a contract for part of the \u014ctaki to north of Levin highway. Downer is to deliver the southern section of that 24km highway with McConnell Dowell, Beca and Tonkin + Taylor.<\/p>\n

Hawkins won the contract to build the new Sir Mark Dunajtschik Mental Health Centre<\/a> in Lower Hutt.<\/p>\n

The company was named the prime contractor of the year in May in the Ministry of Defence excellence awards for 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cHawkins partnered with the Ministry of Defence to construct new facilities for the P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft fleet at RNZAF Base \u014chakea,\u201d that award citation said.<\/p>\n

Te Whare Toroa has many facilities, including two hangars, a flight simulator, office space, flight stores, ground service equipment storage and an apron to the runway. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe complicated construction process required a number of bespoke solutions to meet strict compliance requirements and a high earthquake standard,\u201d the ministry award said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nominators described the Hawkins team as flexible, perseverant and collaborative with health and safety a part of the culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March, Downer said it had won a new $600m electricity field services contract with Powerco to provide maintenance, minor capital works and fault-repair services in two regions of the electricity distribution network in the North Island.<\/p>\n

Hawkins built the $300m T\u014dtara Haumaru building, which includes 150 beds and eight operating theatres, as part of the $600m North Shore Hospital upgrade.<\/p>\n

Downer is also a core member of the Link Alliance for the $5.5b City Rail Link, now nearing completion and due to open next year.<\/p>\n

During the year, Downer sold its Catering (New Zealand) business and Cleaning (Australia) and Cleaning (New Zealand) businesses, resulting in it employing 5000 fewer people. It made a A$23.3m ($26.6m) loss on the sale of its Australian cleaning and New Zealand catering businesses. <\/p>\n

Downer says it employs approximately 26,000 people on more than 300 sites here and in Australia. <\/p>\n

Anne Gibson<\/a> has been the Herald\u2018s property editor for 25 years, written books and covered property extensively here and overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All up, expenses were down from $2.6b to $2.4b. In May, Hawkins was ranked the country\u2019s busiest builder.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23276,26160,74,8988,27562,138,82765,27125,3592,82766,700,5812,5338,1132,117,111,139,69,39169,5340,26520,7493,810,5977,379,80,2963],"class_list":["post-116562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-23276","tag-25b","tag-after","tag-builder","tag-busiest","tag-business","tag-downer","tag-expenses","tag-fall","tag-hawkins","tag-latest","tag-make","tag-makes","tag-million","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owns","tag-profit","tag-pushed","tag-revenue","tag-up","tag-which","tag-year","tag-zealand","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}