{"id":6186,"date":"2026-06-26T03:13:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apac.hubexo.com\/?post_type=resource&p=6186"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:40:10","slug":"naylor-love-cements-top-spot-as-new-zealands-leading-builder","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/apac.hubexo.com\/id\/resource\/naylor-love-cements-top-spot-as-new-zealands-leading-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Naylor Love Cements Top Spot as New Zealand\u2019s Leading Builder\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Naylor Love has secured the top position in\u00a0Hubexo’s\u00a02026 Construction League rankings, recording\u00a0103\u00a0project commencements with a combined value of\u00a0just over\u00a0$1\u00a0billion. The result sees the contractor\u00a0reclaim\u00a0New Zealand’s number one ranking and reinforces its position as one of the country’s most established and respected construction companies.\u00a0

Compiled using project intelligence tracked through Hubexo’s LeadManager<\/a><\/a> platform, the fourth edition of the Construction League<\/a> ranks New Zealand’s top 50 builders by the value of projects that commenced construction during 2025 across the commercial, community, industrial, legal and military, and multi-residential sectors.

This year’s top 50 builders\u00a0commenced\u00a0construction on 842 projects,\u00a0a modest 5%\u00a0decline on the previous year.\u00a0The combined value of those commencements increased slightly to\u00a0$8.7 billion, underscoring the market’s continued focus on\u00a0pipeline quality in the face of\u00a0significanteconomic headwinds.\u00a0

For Naylor Love, this year’s number one ranking marks a return to familiar territory. The builder topped the Construction League in 2024..

The privately owned contractor traces its roots back 116 years and has evolved from a\u00a0predominantly South\u00a0Island builder into a truly national construction business with operations stretching across New Zealand.\u00a0

While the ranking reflects a strong year of project commencements, CEO Bruno Goedeke says becoming New Zealand’s largest builder has never been the company’s primary\u00a0objective.\u00a0

“We’ve never aimed to be the largest construction company in New Zealand”,\u00a0Goedeke told\u00a0Hubexo.\u00a0

“But it is still\u00a0affirmation\u00a0that you must be doing something right if you’re winning that amount of work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wainuiomata High School rebuild.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Naylor Love’s 2025 commencements included the\u00a0Hawke’s Bay Regional Prison Accelerated Capacity Project (ACP), Papamoa Plaza\u00a0stage 3,\u00a0new buildings at\u00a0Wellington High School, and the New World Stoke development, reflecting a continued commitment across government, education,\u00a0retail\u00a0and community sectors.\u00a0\u00a0

For Goedeke, Naylor Love\u2019s reputation\u00a0remains\u00a0the foundation of long-term success.\u00a0

“It doesn’t matter how many cups of coffee I have with clients and what the relationships are. If you don’t deliver your project successfully, on time and to a high quality, you’re not going to win a lot of projects.”\u00a0

“You win the next job because you do a really good job of the one you’ve just done.”\u00a0

Yet Goedeke believes relationships and culture remain central to Naylor Love’s success.\u00a0

“We will hang a door for a good client.\u00a0We’ll\u00a0do a $300 million project for a good client. It\u00a0doesn’t\u00a0matter.\u201d\u00a0

The Naylor family\u00a0remains\u00a0closely involved\u00a0in the business and continues to influence the values that have shaped the company for generations.\u00a0

“Honesty and integrity are still at the heart of how we operate”,\u00a0Goedeke said. “If you shake someone’s hand and say a deal is done, it’s done.”\u00a0

Alongside that cultural foundation, Naylor Love has spent recent years strengthening its long-term strategic planning, business improvement processes and operational capability.

The result is a business focused less on rapid expansion and more on consistently becoming better.

“If every part of your business improves a little bit each year, when you look back five years later the difference can be enormous.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Naylor Love currently has over 900 staff spread over six regional divisions. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That philosophy of continuous improvement is becoming increasingly important as New Zealand’s construction market evolves.\u00a0

Among the most significant\u00a0changes\u00a0reshaping the industry is the growing shift toward design-and-build procurement.\u00a0

Goedeke believes New Zealand is increasingly following a path already\u00a0established\u00a0in Australia, with clients engaging contractors earlier and embracing more collaborative design-and-build procurement models. Growing project complexity, cost\u00a0pressures,\u00a0and the need for greater delivery certainty are accelerating the shift.\u00a0

At the same time, the industry is rapidly embracing digital technologies, artificial\u00a0intelligence,\u00a0and\u00a0new approaches\u00a0to project delivery.\u00a0

For Naylor Love, those trends are\u00a0closely connected\u00a0to another strategic priority.\u00a0

“We have a strategy\u00a0of\u00a0building faster than anyone else”,\u00a0Goedeke said.\u00a0

“If you can build faster while maintaining quality, projects become more efficient and ultimately more affordable.”\u00a0

Despite current market challenges, Goedeke remains optimistic about the industry’s long-term outlook, citing regulatory reform, increasing collaboration, and a growing focus on quality.

For Naylor Love, the focus\u00a0remains\u00a0firmly on continual improvement rather than headline growth.\u00a0

The company’s nationwide footprint, spanning major\u00a0centres\u00a0and regional markets across New Zealand, provides resilience through economic cycles and enables it to respond as demand shifts between sectors and geographies.\u00a0

“We’re constantly getting better at all aspects of our business”,\u00a0Goedeke said.\u00a0 “I feel very positive about the next five years.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Who are New Zealand\u2019s Top 50 Builders? <\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Unveil the top 50 and all the insights by downloading your free copy of the report.<\/strong><\/a>  
 
The 2026 edition of the Construction League is proudly presented in partnership with Cupix<\/a>, our Major Partner, and our Event Partner, BuildNZ<\/a>.  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Naylor Love has secured the top position in\u00a0Hubexo’s\u00a02026 Construction League rankings, recording\u00a0103\u00a0project commencements with a combined value of\u00a0just over\u00a0$1\u00a0billion. The result sees the contractor\u00a0reclaim\u00a0New Zealand’s number one ranking and reinforces its position as one of the country’s most established and respected construction companies.\u00a0 Compiled using project intelligence tracked through Hubexo’s LeadManager platform, the fourth edition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6187,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"resource-category":[21],"class_list":["post-6186","resource","type-resource","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource-category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apac.hubexo.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/6186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apac.hubexo.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apac.hubexo.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resource"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apac.hubexo.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/apac.hubexo.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/6186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6212,"href":"https:\/\/apac.hubexo.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource\/6186\/revisions\/6212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apac.hubexo.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apac.hubexo.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"resource-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apac.hubexo.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-category?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}