A Wanganui construction company has secured its second multimillion-dollar contract in two years work that will see it fully committed until at least the end of 2009.
And there are spin-offs for other local businesses.
Wells and Wadsworth Construction Ltd has won the contract for major work on Hawera's $23 million Hub sporting complex.
The company was successful with its $16.8 million tender for stages two and three of the complex.
It comes hard on the heels of the $17 million contract Wells and Wadsworth won to build the new Taihape Area School.
Glenn Wadsworth, a co-director of the company, said the Taihape job took 18 months to complete.
"We're just moving away from that site but will be back early in the New Year because they have asked for another four classrooms to be added to handle the expanding roll," Mr Wadsworth said.
His crews will be there from February.
Meanwhile, the company started work at Hawera a couple of months ago and Mr Wadsworth said the contract should run through until next December.
There are 20 staff working there, but Mr Wadsworth said other Wanganui firms were benefiting from the contract.
"We've got a number of local firms subcontracting on the job, including Strong Electrical, Mike Bates Plumbers, Wight Aluminium and flooring company Hobday and Lorentzen."
The South Taranaki District Council is financing the bulk of the project, with some of the money coming from grants and fundraising.
The entire complex is worth $22.7 million, with the local council providing $14.8 million and the remaining $8 million coming from grants and fundraising.
The contract includes building the indoor stadium and functions centre at the Hub.
"It includes new sports halls for a variety of indoor sports, a new grandstand adjacent to Hicks Park, a lounge for the rugby club, as well as an indoor shooting range."
Mr Wadsworth said his company tended to do one-off contracts rather than working on a series of smaller projects.
"It's not so much our company specialising in big projects but rather the Taihape project led to this one. This sort of project is a very good backbone for us and lets us feed off it."
He said next year his company would look at pricing another major project, at Waiouru military camp.
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