Rick and Tony started Goodman’s with 5 staff – owning and milking cows, site excavation, general agricultural work, site demolition and lowering railway tunnels.

Awarded a contract with Housing New Zealand in 1966 for the Wellington region site works for state house subdivisions.

Awarded the Mangaweka Viaduct contract for $1 million in 1973.

Company now with 70 staff – sub-division site work, hiring plant for the electrification of the main trunk railway line – lots of mistakes and learning.

1987 crash caused work and cash to dry up. A stressful and tough time to be in earthmoving.

Business went into recievership.

Rick started new business through the buy-out of his brother with the assistance of 20 investors (all paid back within 3 years). Increased from 10 to 65 staff and 10 to 150 machines. Focusing on work for trusted clients & doing a GOOD job.

Awarded Bushy Park contract in 1995– first major job that stretched the company and provided the catalyst to secure further large scale contracts. Provided a huge learning curve, major stress point for Directors, valuable lessons in managing sub-contractors, developed job costing and contract templates, growth and development of the relationship with Higgins Contractors via Ken Howard.

Awarded Kaitoke contract. Another learning experience in dealing with adverse weather conditions, and a tragedy on site.

Windfarms 2004 Te-Apiti, 2006 Tararua, 2007 Westwind Makara, 2012 Mill Creek

Awarded NEIL industrial subdivision in Palmerston North as the recession was starting to bite! A much needed job on our books but at low rates. Learning experience – cost fluctuations are required at times like this. The job possibly would have been OK if material wasn’t so bad, quantities didn’t double, fuel didn’t double, and the job length didn’t double. Total loss significant. The effect of NOT having the job is hard to gauge.

Awarded the M2PP contract, first Alliance based contract. Goodmans contracted for earthworks across the entire project. Growth point.

Working for an international company at Transmission Gully. Challenging contractual conditions. Experienced low staff morale.

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