ISSUE 1 ISSUE 2020 Building People He Whaihanga Tangata Celebrating 110 years of Naylor Love Front cover: Workers on the 1940 Centennial Exhibition site in Lyall Bay, Wellington, where the buildings were constructed by Love Construction Company and Fletchers. Below: Holiday Inn Remarkables Park in Queenstown, lit up for the Lumify light festival over Queen’s Birthday weekend. Naylor Love Auckland 129 Diana Drive, Glenfield, Auckland 0627 09 444 4346 [email protected] Naylor Love Waikato/BoP – Hamilton 31 McKee Street, Pukete, Hamilton 3200 07 839 7023 [email protected] Naylor Love Waikato/BoP – Tauranga Level 1, 93 First Ave, Tauranga 3110 07 925 0150 [email protected] Naylor Love Wellington Level 1, 275 Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011 04 586 3192 [email protected] Gibbons Naylor 19 Parere Street, Nelson 7010 03 548 3039 [email protected] Naylor Love Canterbury 286 Cashel Street, Christchurch 8011 03 374 6285 [email protected] Naylor Love Central Otago Level 2, 36 Grant Road, Five Mile Centre, Frankton, Queenstown 9300 03 442 2889 [email protected] Naylor Love Dunedin 78 Ward Street, Dunedin 9016 03 474 1153 [email protected] Website www.naylorlove.co.nz LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/naylor-love This magazine uses vegetable-based inks and environmentally responsible paper. It is printed on Sumo Offset stock, which is Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) certified, mixed source pulp from responsible sources. The magazine is printed by Spectrum Print which is a Toitū Envirocare gold certified organisation.® 2 Left to right: Naylor Love Project Manager Leighton Calkin with CEO Rick Herd. Welcome to Building People Kia ora We’re celebrating our 110th year in that the construction industry remains to allow the construction industry to construction in 2020, and it feels like a great place to work. return to work at alert level three - the right time to start sharing our more than two weeks earlier than most After 110 years, Naylor Love is other industries. Naylor Love stories again. So, welcome the recognised leader in vertical to Building People | He Whaihanga construction and New Zealand’s largest I spent my lockdown advocating Tangata, our new biannual publication. privately owned construction company. widely for the vertical/commercial construction sector. Sometimes As well as marking a significant We might have been expecting more it looked like the Government’s company birthday, our first issue also birthday cake and less hand washing ‘shovel ready’ stimulus package marks the announcement of our new this year, but the Covid-19 pandemic was focusing disproportionately on purpose statement – Building People, has crystallised our leadership role in civil construction such as roads, but Creating a Sustainable Future. This the industry. we managed to get the message statement defines what lies at the out there that we must protect and heart of Naylor Love and our greatest I’m very proud of the way our team create skilled jobs, build valuable asset – our people. pulled together, particularly over the public amenities and stimulate the lockdown period, to work on essential economy by investing in vertical We’ve packed a lot into those six projects, price new jobs, and do infrastructure such as schools, words. everything they could to ensure we hit hospitals, community facilities and the ground running the moment we got social housing. Building People acknowledges both back on site. our primary business as a construction The Naylor Love team includes company and our commitment to Special mention must go to our health construction workers, project developing all those who make up the and safety team, led by Pete Lockhart. managers, engineers, architects and Naylor Love team. quantity surveyors. Many of these men As a member of the Construction and women are leaders in their fields Our vision for a sustainable future Sector Accord, Naylor Love prepared but very few of them are inclined to encompasses our focus on the comprehensive guidelines for boast about it - Building People will wellbeing and diversity of our people, managing building sites safely under bring you their stories. our determination to leave the planet a alert levels three and two. This hard better place, and our efforts to ensure work gave the Government confidence Ngā mihi, Rick Herd, Naylor Love CEO 3 110 years – a reflection Ask any 110-year-old the secret of longevity. They will tell you about how their relationships, values, and their approach to difficult times sustained them. For Naylor Love, our legacy is about these intrinsic qualities as much as it is about what we have built. Both of our founding companies, Love Ownership of our company remains Brothers and WH Naylor, opened in private hands, with shareholders their doors in Dunedin in 1910. The deeply involved in its management two companies seemed unlikely and governance. Passing the mantle to partners when they joined forces sixty the next generation remains a carefully years later; Loves was focussed on considered tradition. Our future will growth and took on a diverse range see us balancing the economic and of complex projects throughout New social impacts of Covid-19 and climate Zealand. Naylors stuck to its knitting, change in how we operate and what gaining an enviable reputation for we build. It would be very easy to Trevor Kempton joined Naylor Love in 1987 quality and enduring relationships in forgo progress on environmental issues as Manager of Subcontracting Services. the south. while looking for a quick fix for the He was Managing Director from 2001 until economy, but working where these two his retirement in 2010, and has chaired Looking back, being able to balance imperatives overlap will probably be the Naylor Love Board since 2017. the complementary attributes of where the opportunities lie. We remain both companies has been key to committed to finding ways to build our success. more sustainably. Jim Love and Hugh Naylor could never No business has ever lasted 110 years have predicted that there would be a without having to work through difficult world war and an influenza pandemic times. Our ability to survive and even within a few years of them setting up thrive is due to our people, who have shop in 1910. Their resilience remains an always taken ownership of challenges example to us all. and proactively contributed to overcoming them. Trevor Kempton, Naylor Love Chair Dunedin Town Hall project team, 1927 4 Putting people first Naylor Love people are the company’s Naylor Love already had a flexible most important and valuable asset. “Looking after people working policy on the drawing board is fundamental to a when Covid-19 emerged. Surveys All aspects of staff health, safety and during lockdown asked staff if they wellbeing are a major focus for Naylor thriving business.” would like to continue working remotely, Love and that commitment starts in if their position allowed this flexibility, the company values – and is then and almost half said they would. keenly embraced through all levels of With many of Naylor Love’s construction the organisation. workers exposed to the elements, a sun Rounding out the wellbeing picture is smart campaign offers staff an annual the employee assistance programme “We are always looking at how we skin check. The last round of checks for staff and their families, and a series can support our people through our detected 11 serious melanoma cases of wellbeing seminars, covering topics wellbeing programme. Looking after and another 12 skin cancer cases. “We such as fatigue, stress management people is fundamental to a thriving have the satisfaction of knowing this and mental health. business,” says Pam McGarry, General initiative helped save lives,” says Pam. Manager – People and Culture. Pam says the company’s group medical insurance scheme has more than 1,400 members and many claims are Below: Some of the Naylor Love team after a six hour bike race at for elective surgery. Having insurance McLeans Island, Christchurch. means staff can get surgery quickly, reducing worry and getting them back on their feet sooner. 5 Sylvia Park expansion The challenge: How to add 60 new shops to the country’s busiest shopping complex while keeping the tills ringing. The latest stage of Sylvia Park’s effectively built a building on top of “It was great to be involved with the expansion involved adding a massive that building – all while screening project 18 months before construction mezzanine level to the existing Galleria. off our construction areas and began, working closely with the client keeping the lower level open for retail and their consultants. We’ve achieved Naylor Love turned Sylvia Park’s single customers,” says Justin. a collaborative build and a high quality level Galleria into a two-level vaulted product within the client’s budget,” atrium without any of the ground floor “This project had its share of says Justin. stores having to close their doors. challenges, including maintaining flexibility around retail store size Darragh Gillane was Naylor Love’s It also met the challenge of keeping and layout for as long as possible, Project Director for the construction shoppers safe throughout the project. as tenants were being signed up phase. “We had a great team throughout the construction period.” operating over a huge site, all in a live As well as constructing the 19,000 environment. We had Marty Johnson, square metre mezzanine floor, Naylor The total cost of the project is more Chris Bourke and their teams adding Love also built a two-level Farmers than $200 million and completion is the two multi storey car park buildings, department store and created parking expected mid-October 2020.