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Ben Taylor

Construction Project Manager

What’s your role within Connor Jones and what are your areas of expertise?

Construction project manager. Expert in renovation problem solving.

How long have you been working in the construction / engineering industry?

I've been in the construction industry for eight years.

What’s the most impressive technological advancement or innovation you’ve witnessed in the construction industry?

Builder Trend - our building portal. Communication with the client, daily logs, and schedules makes organising easy. It's really cool that the client can see what's going on in the background. Builder Trend allows a client view to some of the communication between subtrades and office to builders on site. You can also see photos taken each day of progress, if the client is off site.

If you  could collaborate with any famous architect, engineer, or designer, living or  deceased, who would it be and what type of project would you work on  together?

Can't beat a renovation. Changing something into something else has more of an appeal to me than building a house from scratch. Turning heritage buildings into luxury apartments would be the ideal job for me. Whilst it would be cool to bring back famous architects/engineers from the grave, I'd rather work with someone I have worked with before. What's the point of developing good working relationships if you swap them out for a dead person. Sean from Hanlon and Partners would be my go to Engineer. Practicality sometimes benefits over "ease" and Sean always does well to see it through the builders eyes rather then draw as much detail on paper without attending a site visit.

If you could build any structure in the world, regardless of budget or feasibility, what would it be and why?

If I could build anything in the world? Regardless of budget? Given the opportunity it would have to be a homeless shelter big enough to house everyone in need in New Zealand. Swimming Pool, cafes with free coffee, rollercoaster inside, Recycled clothing stores, the works.

What do you like to do in your free time, outside of work?

You can't beat family time. It's why I work hard.... to make the time.

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