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Solid, and built to endure. The foundations of Auckland’s Sky Tower descend more than 15m underground and the structure itself includes a 226m tall, reinforced concrete shaft, 12m in diameter, stiffened by 8 reinforced concrete legs that are 2m in diameter. In the event of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurring within 20km of the tower, its design is such that it would remain standing.

The acute block at Auckland Hospital. 52 acres of floors - that's 210,437 square meters. 52,000 tons of reinforced concrete. 6,000 tons of reinforced steel.

Pink Batts with a hint of green. The manufacture of Pink Batts uses up to 80% recycled glass - that's enough to make a window the size of 165 rugby fields each year.

We made a splash. New Zealand’s largest pool complex, Panmure’s Swimarama, opened in 1970. The Fletcher-constructed facility was popular – 156,415 people dived in, in the first 14 weeks.

They said we couldn’t but we did. The near completed Social Security Department building burnt down in Wellington’s Aitken St on February 2, 1939. It was estimated it would take six months to rebuild. Fletchers said ‘we’ll do it in eight weeks.’ Our teams worked 24 hours a day, six days a week. The building was officially opened on March 27, 1939 with everything in place, from fire alarms to flowers in the gardens. The Social Security Department opened as originally planned, April 1, 1939.

A ton of paper. Literally. That was the combined weight of copies of the Fletcher Annual Report printed for shareholders in 1962.

Two kilometres a minute, 120 kilometres an hour. That’s the amount of paper produced at Tasman’s paper mill at Kawerau in 1963 after the second paper machine was commissioned. That’s more than enough paper each day to cover State Highway 1 from Wellington to Kaitaia.

Record breaking performance. That’s what Fletcher staff saw at Western Springs in 1964 when Fletcher sponsored a pre-Olympic athletics meeting. Three New Zealand records were broken – and an excited crowd saw Peter Snell run a mile in under four minutes. 3 minutes 58.5 seconds to be precise. He went on to win Olympic Gold in Tokyo in 1964, breaking his own mile world record with a time of 3 minutes 54.1 seconds.