Bruce McDonald

Director

Sectors

Energy & Data

Tourism & Hospitality

Civic & Cultural

Sports & Recreation

Service

Management

Bruce's career has moved from the front line of delivery to the contractual heart of a project. With a background in quantity surveying and project management, he spent years leading major education, stadium and airport builds, and is now a Director and RCP's Upper North Island regional manager, one of the people the business trusts to hold the formal contractual line on its most complex work.

Over more than two decades he has become one of RCP's senior, independent hands, regularly appointed as Engineer to the Contract or Independent Certifier, the impartial roles that keep a difficult build fair and on track. He holds those appointments across a wide span of current work, in health, education, justice, sport and industry, where deep contractual knowledge and even-handed judgement carry real consequence for everyone involved.

Project managers are no longer intermediaries in the process. We're looked to for leadership.

Bruce McDonaldDirector

Much of it is in live, operationally sensitive environments, hospitals, courthouses, schools and manufacturing plants that have to keep running while major capital work goes on around them.

As his career has shifted towards governance and senior assurance, the constant has been how he reads a project. For all the contractual rigour, Bruce keeps coming back to the team as the thing that makes or breaks it.

"Successful projects are built on successful teams. Get the team right, the right people, the right expertise, the right dynamics, and a great outcome falls out of that."

B405 Engineering Building

Old Choral Hall

Commercial Bay