CONSTRUCTION T H AT C A R E S Strong family and community values are the foundation of Hazell Bros’ civil construction projects, as Managing Director, Geoffrey Hazell, tells us Writer: Jack Salter | Project Manager: Ryan Gray
The word that best summarises the construction industry at this moment in time is ‘dynamic’.” The construction industry in Australia generates in excess of $360 billion in revenue, producing around nine percent of the country’s GDP with a projected annual growth rate of 2.4 percent in the next five years. Geoffrey Hazell, Managing Director of Hazell Bros, is part of the equally dynamic duo that owns and operates 60 | APAC Outlook issue 55
the family-run construction business together with his brother, Robert. Founded in 1944 by the first generation of Hazell brothers, Donald and Rowley, as a transport business operating in Southern Tasmania, Hazell Bros soon became involved in earthmoving projects, and by the 1970s, civil construction. Over the next three decades, the business continued to expand throughout Tasmania, adding quarries, concrete
