Meet Amalgamated Builders Limited's Performance Team

Richard Johnston - Managing Director or ABL

Richard Johnston

Managing Director

Richard Johnston brings to ABL over 30 years of experience in leadership roles in the construction industry.  Richard is a qualified Senior Quantity Surveyor, and has been directly involved with the building of numerous large projects throughout the South Island. 
 

Richard Johnston - Managing Director or ABL

Michael Manson

Financial Controller

Michael joined ABL in 2014.  He is responsible for the overall financial administration of all operating locations and is based in the Invercargill head office.

Michael is a qualified Chartered Accountant and leads the administration team providing ABL with its accounting and financial transactional processing, and supports the management team in business financial planning. 

Chris Dowall

Otago General Manager - Director

Chris started his professional life as a carpenter, completing eighteen years in the commercial and residential fields before retraining as a Quantity Surveyor.

Chris joined Amalgamated Builders Limited (ABL) in early 2001 and quickly worked his way up to the position of Senior Quantity Surveyor, aided by his practical experience.

In 2018 Chris took over the role of Otago General Manager 

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Gareth Wilmshurst

Canterbury General Manager

Gareth is the General Manager of the Canterbury branch and is motivated by ABL’s client-first attitude and approach. Over the years Gareth has worked on several highly sensitive and political projects and understands the complex layers of stakeholder management.

Gareth’s experience has gained him great understanding of complex projects and has grown his wide range of skillsets; from estimation, programming, contracts management, to quantity surveying. He is technically competent in all fields and is personally passionate about construction.

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Brad Harper

Southland General Manager

Brad joined the Amalgamated Builders Limited (ABL) team in 1999 with now 25 years of construction industry experience.