WHEN e.nz magazine TALKED with Peter Ollivier, MIPENZ, the managing director of Duffill-Watts & Tse, he was a happy man. The company had just won two contracts, one for the design and drawing of an 18-storey tower block, the other for a group of three tower blocks, and it had half a dozen other projects in progress. The company is in expansion mode, and plans to add to the 30 people it employs in Ho Chi Minh City and the 25 in Wellington. Duffill-Watts & Tse was established in the early 'nineties to undertake work offshore to counteract the cyclic nature of the New Zealand engineering market. It is 50% owned by parent companies Tse and Duffill-Watts & King. One of the original partners was from Vietnam and his contacts helped set up the first overseas office in Ho Chi Minh City in 1992.
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