| 9 Cheal Consultants - 2023 Unison Great Lake Taupō Business Awards The company’s Four Pillars of Wellbeing – Financial, Emotional, Physical, and Social – create a nurturing and supportive work environment for staff. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CKL has supported property owners and land developers across the North Island of New Zealand for more than three decades with expert surveying, planning, engineering, and environmental advice. From small town rural roots, CKL was founded in Te Awamutu in 1988 by a partnership between John Carter, Rod Keucke, and David Latham. The trio’s vision was to be New Zealand’s leading provider of land development services built on the strong family values of respect, support, and collaboration, always with people at its heart. Director Judith Makinson says those values continue to this day, and see CKL partner with individual landowners, property developers, councils, and government agencies to provide fully integrated land development solutions. CKL now has offices in five locations throughout the North Island: Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Te Awamutu, and Gisborne, with experts in planning, surveying, civil engineering, roading and transport engineering, environmental engineering, and stormwater engineering services. With a team of more than 100 passionate and experienced staff, Judith says CKL values excellence, innovation, courage, and integrity, and fosters a work environment where people can bring their whole selves to work and enjoy what they do. “CKL has grown significantly over the past 35 years, but we have not forgotten our rural roots. Our background CKL: a consultancy built on strong relationships with rural roots means we understand the development landscapes of both our dense urban areas and smaller rural projects,” says Judith. “The diversity in our team means we have the expertise and flexibility to work where our clients are, understand their goals, and help deliver on them. We also understand what is needed to build strong rural communities,” says Judith. CKL brings innovative thinking and a commitment to excellence to all its partnerships, says Judith, challenging norms and pushing boundaries to set new standards and redefine international best practice. “CKL’s continued business growth and success is something we are very proud of. We have never been afraid to diversify our offering to meet the changing needs of the industry and to expand the business to better serve our clients,” says Judith. This extends to partnering with other consultancies, drawing on and complimenting each other’s areas of expertise. “We are always focused on what is best for a project and the client and we place real importance on the relationships we have built with other consultancies and our ability to support other professionals in our field,” says Judith. “We find people will return to partner with us because we do what we say we will. We provide good advice and we're client-focused in terms of thinking about what clients are trying to achieve and how we can help them do that.”
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