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Phil Molina is adding new skills to his already wide range of unique talents now that he’s joined QRS’s concreting...
22 April 2024
Takurua Edwards, 17, is one of QRS’s youngest employees, but he has some very mature goals.
17 April 2024
Labourer Jordan McFarlane was in his happy place last weekend hunting pigs and deer for entry into the Tiniroto...
10 April 2024
Thomas Perston is experiencing a mix of nerves and quiet confidence ahead of his well-earned opportunity to...
13 March 2024
WORKING on high value contracts during the community’s time of need means we can help rebuild Wairoa while...
13 March 2024
WITH one science degree, one marine studies diploma, and three decades as a chef, David Mildon’s life experience...
22 February 2024
When manager of road maintenance Michelle Hedley took the call in the early hours of Sunday 26 November, she knew...
19 December 2023
The Operations Hub at QRS is open, and the timing and its location couldn't be better. It's a great place for...
13 November 2023
THOMAS Perston from Quality Roading and Services continued the company’s tradition of excellence in excavator...
6 November 2023
Thomas Perston delicately opened, and then poured a bottle of beer, using a five-and-a-half tonne digger. The feat...
19 October 2023
BOARD chair Guy Gaddum paid his respect to steadfast and loyal Quality Roading and Services staff working in the...
13 October 2023
Board member Lauren Jones is helping Quality Roading and Services build Wairoa back better and faster.
25 September 2023
Bridge repairs and reconstruction make up about two-thirds of Quality Roading and Service’s construction division...
3 July 2023
JIMMY Totoro has prioritised his future by making two significant decisions in the past six months – receiving hi...
29 June 2023
THINGS had been quiet at Wairoa's Riverside Motor Camp since Cyclone Gabrielle blew through, floodwaters bowling...
21 June 2023
Quality Roading and Services board members have proposed a $1.05 million contribution be made to the company’...
19 June 2023
The scale of work to remove flood-damaged Te Reinga Bridge near Wairoa this week is unlike anything else Quality...
16 June 2023
Quality Roading and Services and teams of specialised contractors are working to winch the remains of Te Reinga...
14 June 2023
Quality Roading and Service's engineer cadet programme is combining on-the-job experience with formal study for...
9 June 2023
Earthworks and the reconstruction of some parts of Kotare Bridge No 1 abutments over Mangapoike River continue...
8 June 2023
AFTER years spent pulling apart old home appliances, Tyne Reedy is now putting his curiosity to good use as an...
6 June 2023
Quality Roading and Services staff continue to maintain Ohuka Rd ensuring it remains a resilient lifeline for...
31 May 2023
Preparations are underway to remove the broken Te Reinga Bridge by setting it down into the river and dragging it...
19 May 2023
NEW QRS store person Pete Thompson got his feet wet in his new job from the minute he walked in. Literally. “I...
17 May 2023
AFTER 20 years away from Wairoa, Kate Maddock and whānau have hit the ground running.
“My kids love thi...
15 May 2023
Wairoa’s Fight for Life in April delivered welcome entertainment and channelled much-needed funding into Wairoa...
5 May 2023
Quality Roading and Services staff and Currie Construction from Gisborne successfully replaced the collapsed...
3 May 2023
Two Quality Roading and Services (QRS) lakie staff have been hailed as heroes during Cyclone Gabrielle after...
20 April 2023
Local motocross rider Tommy Watts’s thoughts are with Wairoa as he rips into a new year of national and...
19 April 2023
FOUR Quality Roading and Services staff will be in the ring at next weekend’s Fight for Life helping raise money...
24 March 2023
We'll keep cleaning up affected areas and roads for as long as it takes. QRS: your people, your solution, you're...
8 March 2023
Maintaining road access and clearing silt and flood-damaged property in Wairoa are the priority activities for...
7 March 2023
At QRS we care for our environment while we work.
30 January 2023
Quality Roading and Services (QRS) has earned industry acclaim for an ingenious bridge repair that involved a...
6 December 2022
Check out some never-before-seen footage from the devastating March 2022 floods.
3 December 2022
GROWING up in West Auckland, Kingston Taulapapa was playing league when, at the age of 13, he was shoulder-tapped...
18 November 2022
Quality Roading and Services has continued to perform strongly despite a year of worldwide change and turbulence...
16 November 2022
Twenty-three year old Caitlin Thornton is right at home working in Quality Roading and Service’s traffic...
8 November 2022
Tumanako Waiwai and seven Quality Roading and Services colleagues have been praised for their efforts to reopen...
19 October 2022
DRENCHED and cold, labourer Jared Spence sat down in his sodden tent and wrung water from his sleeping bag. The...
3 October 2022
When staff did a wellbeing survey this year people and capabiities manager Peter Wairau didn’t know that Quality...
29 September 2022
ADVENTURE course Outward Bound has propelled QRS engineer Glenn Bradley to rethink the way he lives, works, and...
28 September 2022
OWNERS of local residential building company J&T Builders were first in line for concrete made in Wairoa thi...
21 September 2022
It was road work that took Mohi Smith's whānau to Matawai in the mid-20th century, and road work that helped him...
3 August 2022
Nadia White was so impressed when Quality Roading and Services won a Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce Supreme Award...
21 July 2022
MOWER operators Shaun Hadcroft and James ‘Bubbles’ Wieczorek are developing their skills and careers at QRS thank...
29 June 2022
This year Quality Roading and Services is supporting four Wairoa students in their chosen area of study or sport...
8 June 2022
Quality Roading and Services's new traffic management division is available for contract across the North Island'...
24 May 2022
A healthy dollop of Kiwi ingenuity from Quality Roading and Services and WSP engineers, helped ensure the Te...
20 May 2022
Siobhan Storey, Ngāti Kahungunu and Ngāti Pāhauwera, has been announced as chief financial officer at Quality...
3 May 2022
Quality Roading and Services staff are working hard to repair and reopen roads today after ex-tropical Cyclone...
14 April 2022
Operator Bruce Emberson enjoys every single day, even the turbulent ones!
8 April 2022
Hard-working and always cheerful, Aaron Ruawai threw his heart and soul into helping open up Wairoa’s roads last...
31 March 2022
Mike Varley was one of QRS’s emergency response staff this weekend helping reopen State Highway 2 at Turiroa. ...
30 March 2022
Quality Roading and Services emergency response staff have been described as hard-working heroes after they worked...
29 March 2022
Quality Roading and Services (QRS) made a $50,000 contribution to its owner and provided timely financial support...
24 March 2022
QRS’s long reach mower operators Isa Robertson (pictured working on Tunanui Rd), Tim Winiana, James Wieczorek and...
28 February 2022
The Wairoa Community Centre has received a welcome Christmas boost with local civil contractor firm Quality...
20 December 2021
At 23, Alex Little has become the youngest qualified diesel mechanic in Quality Roading and Services’s workshop...
17 December 2021
Quality Roading and Services is using the latest ground excavation technology to safeguard the district’...
30 November 2021
A challenging coastal road drop-out repair has won Quality Roading and Services (QRS) a regional construction...
25 November 2021
After 33 years with Quality Roading and Services, construction crew leader Nick Murray has swapped his company...
16 November 2021
Christmas has come early to Wairoa Museum after local company Quality Roading and Services announced a $40,000...
16 November 2021
KEEANU Lackner, Ngai Tuhoe, had been on the job only a few months when he was shoulder-tapped to do the Wairoa...
5 November 2021
Quality Roading and Services has returned over half a million dollars to its owner and sole shareholder Wairoa...
28 October 2021
PLANT OPERATOR vacancies are available now at award-winning civil contracting company Quality Roading and...
30 September 2021
In one week, Jacob Paku was promoted, turned 20, became a father for the second time, and went into a Level 4...
27 September 2021
Quality Roading and Services has announced Peter Wairau as the company’s new people and capabilities manager. The...
22 September 2021
LIFE has come full circle for Joanne Mitchell, and she couldn’t be happier. After leaving Wairoa College in the...
16 September 2021
Described by some as a solutions genius and others as an automotive industry surgeon, Glenn Bradley this week...
31 August 2021
Quality Roading and Services emergency response staff have been quick to lend a hand around Wairoa as the town...
20 August 2021
PREMIERE netball player and former lifeguard Sydney Rore is relishing the life skills she’s learning at Quality...
12 August 2021
IF Quality Roading and Services could be assured of just one thing in employing 19-year-old Jack Te Amo, it’s that...
5 August 2021
Local leader Jeremy Harker was announced this week as new chief executive of Wairoa company Quality Roading and...
29 July 2021
AUCKLAND’S loss is Wairoa’s gain now that Brandon Hall has joined the Quality Roading and Services team. Brandon...
27 July 2021
Departing chief executive Nigel Pollock gave Quality Roading and Services the confidence it needed to become a...
14 July 2021
Machine operator Tumanako Waiwai has been motivated to pursue a management role after completing a Wairoa Rotary...
25 June 2021
BOXING training can change a youngster’s life for the better, say Wairoa Boxing Club trainers Moana Foster and...
21 June 2021
SIX long-serving staff were given the honorary task of turning the first sods of dirt during a blessing ceremony...
14 June 2021
Fifty-five years ago Barker Bridge on Ruakituri Road was built by a very busy TJ Greig who’d successfully tended...
31 May 2021
Quality Roading and Services staff Alex Little, Epanaia Whatuira, and Tumanako Waiwai rolled up their sleeves in...
28 May 2021
Dressed in varying shades of pink, a group of QRS staff were part of national Pink Shirt Day - a movement to end...
26 May 2021
EPro8 Wairoa 2021 makes maths and science electrifying! The event last month was a huge success and hopefully...
13 May 2021
State Highway 2 will be closed at Tahaenui Bridge, near Nuhaka, from just before midnight on Saturday 15th May to...
11 May 2021
GROWING up in rural Wairoa, Lance Maxwell would drive his parents nuts dismantling any engine he could get hi...
5 May 2021
We think QRS Quarry Manager John Menneer is our most academic staff member! With a Bachelor of Science (biology...
15 April 2021
Meet road maintenance site supervisor Thomas Perston. Thomas is part of the QRS 'Your road to success' recruitment...
7 April 2021
Epro8 makes maths and science electrifying, reckons former automotive technician and now Te Mahia School principal...
1 April 2021
Quality Roading and Services board chair Guy Gaddum has today accepted Nigel Pollock’s resignation as the...
1 April 2021
AS a young girl Davena Morunga can remember travelling over Tahaenui Bridge. Now, 35 years on, Davena is project...
29 March 2021
Quality Roading and Services has made a record $1.6m pre-tax profit in the six months to December 2020, but it...
29 March 2021
One of this year’s top-secret EPro8 challenges has a James Bond twist organisers have revealed ahead of the annual...
26 March 2021
Well-known former Wairoa Club bar manager Trent Zeilstra has started a civil infrastructure apprenticeship with...
12 March 2021
Quality Roading and Services has released its highly anticipated recruitment video campaign ‘Your road to success’...
18 December 2020
Road users and customers can be rest assured that when they come into contact with QRS it's earned international...
17 December 2020
LIKE a Lego wall built with a giant mechanical hand, support for a drop-out on Mahia East Coast Road is taking...
16 December 2020
Well known Wairoa man Justin ‘Juddy’ Kaimoana has become an audio sensation after nailing the role of voiceover...
8 December 2020
Hot on the heels of winning Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce Supreme Business of the Year, Quality Roading and...
7 December 2020
Quality Roading and Service’s balance between economic support for council and its social responsibilities to the...
23 November 2020
IT was a bit of a homecoming for Chris McGregor when, in September, he reported for work as Quality Roading and...
10 November 2020
WAIROA teenage swimming sensation Kaylah Reynolds shucked off the challenges of lockdown when she smashed seven...
9 November 2020
Quality Roading and Services continues to improve its talent pool of experienced staff after selected supervisor...
29 October 2020
Civil construction and roading company Quality Roading and Services (QRS) delivered strong results for Wairoa...
22 October 2020
We’re currently looking for a financial controller for a six-month fixed term employment contract (maternity...
16 October 2020
A joint effort to realign Nuhaka River has reopened land access and is helping prevent further environmental...
15 October 2020
Please find a copy of the QRS Annual Report 2020. Total revenue for the year was $26.2 million with a consolidated...
24 September 2020
Congratulations to Quality Roading and Services people and capabilities manager Jeremy Harker who has just...
28 August 2020
Sea, salt, wind and rain are constantly reshaping Whangawehi Harbour so this month Quality Roading and Service...
27 August 2020
The Provincial Growth Fund investment of $3.78 million in Wairoa will create much needed economic stimulus and...
7 August 2020
A modern fit-for-purpose operations hub will unleash our business efficiency and potential, says Quality Roading...
7 August 2020
A bunch of “top men and women” working together to improve the roads around Mahia say their uniquely-collaborative...
1 August 2020
Expert heavy transport operator Joe Culshaw retired from Quality Roading and Services this month leaving a legacy...
29 July 2020
Residents and forestry planting contractors are thrilled with Quality Roading and Services’s repair work to fix a...
27 July 2020
By morning smoko Wattie Te Amo may already have driven more than 200 kilometres. “You have to get to every site...
21 July 2020
ISA Robertson is well familiar with big machinery – after leaving Wairoa for the “bright city lights” of Sydney...
8 July 2020
Retired builder and town footpath repair veteran Bob Drysdale has great advice for any Wairoa residents who might...
19 June 2020
A Havelock North couple stranded near Kotemaori on Friday afternoon has thanked QRS project supervisor Aaron...
18 June 2020
Quality Roading and Services’s Quintin Baty has earned his Certificate in Highway Engineering (Civil) and overcome...
29 May 2020
MAY 4 was set to be a big day for Wairoa's Reynolds-Smith whanau. Thirteen-year-old Kaylah Reynolds and mum Joanne...
13 May 2020
Quality Roading and Service staff helped health officials with surveillance testing this morning in a collective...
8 May 2020
Quality Roading and Services staff were “amped” to get back to work this morning after having their temperature...
28 April 2020
BY the fourth week of lockdown Quintin Baty had spent lots of quality time with his wife and teenage son, done...
27 April 2020
A combination of caring for people and good management and planning means Quality Roading and Services goes into a...
24 April 2020
The New Zealand Government has will shift the COVID-19 status to Level 4 tonight (Wednesday 25 March) to fight the...
25 March 2020
As the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation develops in New Zealand we are monitoring it closely and following...
19 March 2020
As Quality Roading and Services farewells chief financial officer Karen Burger, succession planning means most of...
18 March 2020
Finance administrator Siobhan Storey will take over a large amount of the financial strategy and reporting task...
18 March 2020
It’s 4.30am when dedicated teenage athlete Kaylah Reynolds hears her mother’s knock on her bedroom door...
14 February 2020
After 15 years in Australia Waa ‘Toots’ Rowlands is immersing himself in Maoritanga and life at Lake Waikaremoana...
10 February 2020
Although he was born in Waipukurau, new QRS board member Fenton Wilson grew up on the inter-generational...
3 December 2019
When you start at the bottom it’s important to be recognised as you move up within your chosen industry, says one...
22 November 2019
Senior Quality Roading and Services staff have paid credit to fellow Hawkes Bay civil construction company McNatty...
8 November 2019
Locally owned Wairoa civil construction and roading company Quality Roading and Services has made a...
17 October 2019
Wet feet are a thing of the past on the stunning Lake Kaitawa Fairy Springs track now that Quality Roading and...
24 September 2019
At 16 years old Kauri Gray, Ngāti Kahungunu, is the youngest member of the Quality Roading and Services team but...
2 September 2019
With a stake in the future as an automotive engineer, young Quality Roading and Services labourer Tiakiwai King...
27 August 2019
THE team in Quality Roading and Services' workshop have new competition for the title of company grease monkey...
15 August 2019
Guy Gaddum knows the value of hard graft – growing up near Gisborne, his quarrier dad would wake his sons at 4am...
8 August 2019
Davena Morunga, Rongomaiwahine, is making sure the region’s newest road safety measures don’t disrupt existing...
4 August 2019
QRS has been helping apply a temporary repair to the Mahia East Coast Road near the Waitapatu Culvert where...
24 July 2019
Quality Roading and Services newest director has worked on significant transport projects in every corner of New...
23 July 2019
QRS has been helping apply a temporary repair to the Mahia East Coast Road near the Waitapatu Culvert where...
15 July 2019
Locals would face more flooding, washouts and potholes on rural roads if it wasn’t for QRS maintaining 30km of...
15 July 2019
Wairoa’s stunning hill top gateway has been reinforced now that a dropout to the side of Te Uhi Hill has been...
15 July 2019
It’s taken QRS six months to rebuild a portion of Waiau River bank after significant washouts compromised the...
15 July 2019
He knew they could fix it, he just didn't think they would fix it, so when the Wairoa-to-Napier rail line reopened...
10 July 2019
Well-known Wairoa businessman Ian Redshaw farewelled Quality Roading and Services as a director last week saying...
28 June 2019
As a student at Wairoa College, Rose Campbell, Rongomaiwahine, was perhaps best-known for her fine vocal skill...
14 June 2019
A training hub in Wairoa for Hawke’s Bay’s civil contracting sector is one step closer thanks to a Provincial...
13 June 2019
IF there is anything Michelle Hedley knows – it’s roading; and now she’s chosen to take the road that leads back...
27 May 2019
When Robert Mayhead says he's ready for a new challenge, he doesn’t think small!
A relative newcomer to QRS, the...
30 April 2019
Having started work at QRS straight out of Wairoa College, Arnold Smith already has nearly seven years of service...
22 April 2019
When we caught up with QRS project supervisor Aaron Munro he was anxiously waiting for a new digger to arrive from...
15 April 2019
Age Concern Wairoa’s general manager Rebecca Everson says the relationship with Quality Roading and Services help...
20 March 2019
Quality Roading and Services (QRS) has started the year by securing $29 million in contracts around Hawkes Bay and...
15 February 2019
DON'T be fooled by the air of calm that surrounds Quality Roading and Services staffers Nick Murray and Phillip...
31 January 2019
When arguably the biggest pine in the district smashed onto Clifton and Lyall Road near Frasertown on 7 March...
19 December 2018
Looking after the environmental challenges associated with landfills and recycling are key components of waste...
7 December 2018
Machine operator Tui Paikea delicately opened and poured a bottle of beer with a five-and-a-half tonne digger to...
19 November 2018
A 30-tonne excavator and a 40-tonne dump truck, as well as smaller civil contracting machinery, come under the...
2 November 2018
A robust turnaround in fortune saw revenue at Quality Roading and Services up by $2.4 million to $15.8 million...
18 October 2018
AS an accountant Karen Burger is used to watching the pennies but there are times when she loves to loosen the...
28 September 2018
WITH weeks of bad weather behind them and their first big event due on Thursday, the guardians of Wairoa's new...
18 September 2018
With weeks of bad weather behind them and their first big event looming, the guardians of Wairoa's new Mountain...
1 September 2018
Camaraderie and common sense saw an estimated 1000 cubic meters of slip material with at least half covering the...
7 August 2018
Dividing his time between work sites and the office Paul Eaglesome says he has the best job in the world. “My job...
23 July 2018
Peter Wairau doesn’t really have a word to describe a big chunk of the work he does at QRS. The health and safety...
19 July 2018
QRS’s signs technician Aaron Hoskin is synonymous with dozens of others Aucklanders taking advantage of the Wairoa...
6 July 2018
Camaraderie and common sense saw an estimated 1000 cubic meters of slip material with at least half covering the...
1 July 2018
They don't call Phillip Tipu “Papa Phil” for nothing - after more than two decades of driving a lawnmower, he'...
29 June 2018
Since she joined QRS in mid-2017 payroll administrator Jacquie Burrows has yet to see the day when a colleague...
1 June 2018
When it comes to keeping things ship-shape at QRS HQ, Stefini Burling-Claridge knows what she's talking about . ...
28 May 2018
QRS would grind to a halt if it weren't for four fabulous administration team members including Emma Wills. Read...
23 May 2018
A woman in labour was one of the last people across the old Waitahora Bridge on Friday adding to the drama a...
14 May 2018
A woman in labour was one of the last people across the old Waitahora Bridge on Friday 11 May 2018 adding to the...
11 May 2018
Quality Roading and Services Wairoa will make local transport history in the weekend when the Waitahora Bridge i...
7 May 2018
QRS, Wairoa’s second biggest employer, has declared a return to profitability today and the board chair ha...
1 May 2018
“E Tū” . . . “halt!” That's the message from QRS courtesy of its shiny new bilingual signs being used at the Ngāti...
20 April 2018
AFTER only three years at QRS, Shar Hawkins is a great example of paving a pathway for future female operators in...
18 April 2018
Frances Lee and her colleagues mow the equivalent of Auckland to Cairns every year as part of QRS’s road...
29 March 2018
Wairoa College’s First XV training squad is blessed with raw talent says new coach JJ Solomon, and QRS is backing...
22 March 2018
Newly introduced regular driver assessments at QRS have been met with universal endorsement.
20 March 2018
THREE veteran Quality Roading and Services staff have gained Civil Trades Certification this week giving them...
5 March 2018
He's built police stations in the Soloman's and worked in Western Australian mines, but QRS project manager Mike...
2 March 2018
Since coming on board with QRS, project manager Mike Wilson has overseen some significant QRS roading project...
2 March 2018
What a difference a day makes! When this slip closed Lake Rd near the summit on Tuesday 13 February 2018, our guy...
13 February 2018
Malcolm (Muzz) Tuahine, Ngai Tuhoe, is thrilled Te Wharehou o Waikaremoana developed by Ngai Tuhoe has won a...
23 November 2017
Malcolm (Muzz) Tuahine, Ngai Tuhoe, has plenty to keep him busy in the job he loves at QRS.
23 November 2017
QRS loves sport! We get in behind athletics, football, rugby, netball, motocross, bowling, rodeo, boxing and cro...
23 November 2017
QRS is a passionate supporter of the Wairoa A&P Show. The country exhibition and fair is dedicated to celebrating...
15 November 2017
In 2017 QRS was contracted by the New Zealand Transport Agency to replace the single-lane Mangahohi Bridge, and...
14 November 2017
Between 5 April and 14 July 2017 the region was hit by three massive weather events: Cyclone Debbie, ex-tropical...
14 November 2017
QRS is engaged in earthworks in preparation for development of the Wairoa Destination Playground.
14 November 2017
QRS was very proud to be involved with the creation of the new visitor centre and living building Te Wharehou o...
14 November 2017
QRS has helped make a small, but welcome difference, to a rest area south of Wairoa.
14 November 2017
In 2017 QRS commissioned a state of the art digital radio communications network that allows it, and other user...
14 November 2017
While staying well out of the spotlight QRS has quietly supported Wairoa’s Gaiety Cinema and Theatre to the tune...
14 November 2017
Revenue at Quality Roading and Services was up by $1.3 million to $13.3 million and nearly half of that poured...
13 November 2017
A proposed significant restructure at Quality Roading and Services Wairoa could help the company win contracts and...
5 October 2017
Late last month QRS supervisor Rob Ruru received a shout out for his grader expertise. Here he talks a little bit...
27 September 2017
Not long after Nigel Pollock started as the boss of Quality Roading and Services, the QRS office took a charged...
26 September 2017
Wairoa man Nigel Pollock has seized the chance to take the reins of the district’s biggest civil construction and...
9 June 2017
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