New World Rototuna

Awards Received

Gold Supreme Award

RMB 2007 Retail and Business Project

Supreme effort, supreme award

Think Stanley Group, think colour, think gold. It’s the colour of the brand, and this project is further proof the colour was well chosen.

For New World’s supermarket in the Hamilton suburb of Rototuna, Stanley Construction received a gold award in the 2007 Registered Master Builders’ Commercial Project Awards. And then it went one better: it also won the supreme award.

A joint venture project with Fletcher Construction, the supermarket was completed within budget and on time. This was despite the fact that, as building began, the target date for completion was moved forward by eight weeks, to Easter 2006.

“The timeframe for design had also been shortened,” says project engineer Kevin Mullaly, of Stiffe Hooker Ltd, “so the design team was often only just ahead of the construction team, and that required a lot of flexibility and teamwork.”

As part of a larger retail development, the construction site was a site within a site. For the project team, this required constant liaison with other parties on issues like site access, storage and safety.

“This whole project was driven by Stanley’s personality and ‘mana’ on site,” Kevin Mullaly says.