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Mainzeal Property and Construction, which has just reorganised its business throughout the country, has building work on its books worth about $500 million.
Peter Gomm, Mainzeal's chief operating officer, said the firm's largest job was New Zealand Breweries' new brewing and bottling plant for Lion Nathan. The $250 million job is on a 16.7ha greenfields site on Ormiston Rd in East Tamaki.
Construction of a new Supreme Court and refurbishment of the old High Court in Wellington for the Ministry of Justice started in the third quarter of last year, Gomm said.
The design and construction of 30,000sq m eight-level offices in two new buildings, and refurbishment of a 1960s building over six levels for AMP Capital Investors on the Vogel Integrated Campus, also in Wellington, was another big job, he said.
Work had begun for Neil Properties' 8 on Nugent, a new multi-purpose retail, office and apartment development near Auckland Hospital. A tower crane was on site and Mainzeal had bought another crane for this job. The project, in the Grafton-Khyber Pass area, is due to be finished next May.
Those four jobs alone were worth more than $300 million, Gomm said.
Last week, the builder won the Whangarei District Court job and Gomm said the firm had also just won work at Auckland's Baradene College in Remuera.
Mainzeal said last week it had shifted from a regional to a national focus, disbanding its formula to have six localised businesses in favour of three regional hubs, headed by Paul Steward in Auckland, Dave O'Donovan in Wellington and Paul Blackler in Christchurch.
Gomm said this was because large clients, such as Government departments, had national needs and Mainzeal wanted to work more effectively and minimise risks.
But he rejected any suggestion that the reorganisation was sparked by Mainzeal's cost blowouts in building Auckland's Vector Arena.
"This is about risk management," Gomm said.
Mainzeal, which employs about 500 people, is owned by listed Richina Pacific, trading around 54 cents, down from its 52-week high of 61 cents. Mainzeal is chaired by former Prime Minister Jenny Shipley.
