Tony Stehlin
Manager
0274 450 904
tony@cityconstruction.co.nz
Noel Holden
quantity surveyor /
project manager
0275 450 905
noel@cityconstruction.co.nz
Our People
Growing up in South Auckland without a beach in sight, Tony Stehlin had a two-fold dream – to live by the beach and have his own business. He achieved the former in 1982, moving to Gisborne for a quantity surveyor’s job with McMillan & Lockwood; and by the end of 1986, with the establishment of City Construction, he had achieved both.
He got his start in the industry in Auckland, working for Fletcher Development and Construction and gaining his quantity surveyor’s qualification. But the first whiff of a life near a beach saw him quickly high-tail it out of the big smoke with no regrets.
Surf lifesaving became a strong interest and he has been a member of various clubs, mainly Wainui Beach where his children went to school and where he served as a trustee on the school board. These days he’s one of the reliable “old guys” who offers his services at Midway when no one else is available.
Small provincial cities are where it’s at for him and his family. He loves the connectedness and the millionaire lifestyle the district affords its inhabitants.
Noel Holden is good with numbers. That’s a desirable quality when it comes to getting the work and project managing construction jobs from concept to completion.
Noel – who has 38 years of experience working in the industry and had his own construction company in Lancashire, UK – started working for City Construction in December 1999 and quickly began using his quantity surveying skills to good effect. Since then he has enjoyed good working relationships with the consultants, subcontractors and tradesmen he deals with daily.
He’s a stickler for ensuring a job is well-organised, efficient and well-run, and keeps a close eye on managing and controlling contracts and costs within projects. And he has the qualifications that go with it. He is one of about 50 people in New Zealand recognised as Licensed Building Practitioner Site 3. This recognises competency to manage some or all of the construction or alteration of any category of building, but particularly large and highly complex building projects.
The Gisborne and New Zealand outdoors lifestyle suits Noel down to the ground. As a keen competitive cyclist, he is happy to get on his bike and go wherever the roads take him.