Civil Engineering | Drainage | Earthmoving | Forestry Roading EROSION PROTECTION FORESTRY ROADING EARTHWORKS DRAINAGE Team effort makes the difference Over more than two decades in business, civil and forestry contractor Mills-Albert has established a reputation for responding to its client’s requirements or emergencies at a moment’s notice. “We will get up at 1.00am to make things work for our client and there’s a top-down approach,” says General Manager Paul Albert. “Amongst the first people on the ground will be the directors, general manager or project engineers.” Founded in 2000, Mills Albert is owned and operated by Lisa Mills-Albert, David Mills and Paul Albert. “We work in dynamic self managing teams o ering a high level of expertise to a wide range of clients including tier one contractors, councils, Waka Kotahi, Aged Care and property developers,” says David. “We’ve focused on making ourselves compliant, working within integrated quality, health & safety and environmental systems to get the job done e iciently and to the high standard expected by our clients.” Fifty percent Māori owned, Mills Albert is registered with Amotai, which provides Māori and Pasifica businesses with connections to clients who recognise the added value buying from Māori and Pasifica can create in communities. Five years ago, Mills Albert established a dedicated contractor’s yard in Coastal Paraparaumu and operates throughout the greater Wellington region to the ever-developing Wairarapa, through to Taranaki, down through Rangitikei/Manawatu and has worked as far south as Kaikoura. Mills Albert’s diversity of civil contracting work includes rock supply, earthworks, roading, drainage and subdivisions. “We’re heavily engaged with Greater Wellington Regional Council on Te Awa Kairangi works, which is placing rock rip rap in the Hutt River, along with supplying rock to Horizons Regional Council for the Te Puwaha project as part of Whanganui’s Port Revitalisation. To do that project we established an understanding of the values of the Whanganui River or Tupua te kawa. Ensuring there is strong consultation with all e ected parties is one of our key points and strengths.” David says early contractor engagement has been key to significantly contributing to the design of projects. “Nowadays most of our work is by negotiated contract and that has been a big step for us. Our early involvement on the Auraki Stream on State Highway four between Whanganui and Raetihi in 2016 is an example of that. We worked with a number in stakeholders including Higgins, Waka Kotahi, Beca and in consultation with local Iwi to help achieve the right results and a design that worked on the ground.” David also attributes much of the company’s success to the loyalty and strong work ethic of Mills Albert’s one hundred team members. “They are a key part of our operation, and we are currently renewing our plant and machinery to support them. We operate about thirty excavators, six truck and trailer units, six dump trucks, graders, loaders and all the supporting gear that goes with it.” A separate company called Mills Albert Forestry operates a cable harvesting crew and is complemented with forestry roading capability. “The harvesting crew has a strong physical and spiritual mana associated with it,” says David. “PF Olsen is one of Mills Albert Forestry’s key clients, but we’re also associated with Forest 360, John Turkington Forestry, Tree Awareness, and Tenco.”
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