Fletcher Construction's efforts here during World War II and its aftermath are detailed in a second huge volume about the business.
The hardback, No Job Too Hard, A History of Fletcher Construction Volume II: 1940-1965 (Steele Roberts) by Jack Smith, follows No Job Too Big: A History of Fletcher Construction Volume 1: 1909-1940 starting when the business was founded by two immigrants, Scotsman Jim Fletcher and Englishman Bert Morris.
The latest volume, at 587 pages, tells of the construction of military huts, prefabricated buildings, camps, stores and hospital required by the New Zealand and American forces mobilised to repel a potential Japanese invasion.
It also tells of the creation of the once-powerful Ministry of Works and covers controversy, including accusations of war profiteering.
"Unfortunately existing histories give little credit to anyone other than the Public Works Department for some amazing feats of speedy wartime construction," wrote Smith, who worked for the Fletcher Group from 1953 until his retirement in 1988.