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GENEVIEVE BLACK FELL INTO HER PROFESSION AND CAN’T ENVISAGE EVER FALLING OUT WITH IT.

Australian-born, with Filipino and Caucasian heritage, Genevieve Black was raised in a little place called Woy Woy, north of Sydney, and moved to Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland 11 years ago. She brought her bartending/management and landscaping/gardening background with her and carried on doing both, before unexpectedly finding her calling in construction.

So Genevieve, who or what inspired you to become a builder? I randomly found building after a drunken night out on which I met my

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