Dylan Hoffmann explains the name change was forced on the firm because there are many businesses in Adelaide using the surname ‘Hoffmann’ as part of their brand. “We were getting wrong invoices from suppliers, while invoices for us were also going missing. So, we changed the business name to Brydaw Civil which is an amalgam of mum and dad’s middle names – Bryan and Dawn.” In the civil contracting space, the now Waterloo Corner-based company focuses primarily on earthmoving and subcontracts to larger companies such as AR Contracting Services, BMD, and similar Tier 2 construction businesses in Adelaide. As part of its services, Brydaw Civil offers a broad range of diggers of various sizes, including a Hitachi ZX225 and tip trucks, water trucks, bobcats, and vac trucks.
GROWING ON THE BACK OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE BOOM IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
MEET THE BOSS: DYLAN HOFFMANN
DIRECTOR, BRYDAW CIVIL As a former commercial cray fisherman operating a business at Beach Port on the South Australian southeast coast, Brydaw Civil’s Dylan Hoffman has come a long way in the civil construction industry since rigging his last pot back in 2011.
Brydaw Civil was originally launched in Beachport, South Australia as Hoffmann Trenching in 1999 by Dylan’s father and mother, Chris, and Pam Hoffmann. The new communication business focused on laying and maintaining underground communication cables and pipes for Telstra.
Now the owner of civil construction firm Brydaw Civil since 2018, Dylan oversees a business that provides maintenance services for the NBN in South Australia and the Northern Territory and earthmoving and civil construction services mostly in Adelaide. The business also employs a team of 12 civil construction specialists.
In 2004, Chris and Pam Hoffmann decided to shift Hoffmann Trenching to the Northern Territory where it operated between Darwin and Uluru and beyond. The family-owned and operated firm has since moved back to South Australia, changing its name to Brydaw Civil and expanding its civil construction services and into asbestos removal.
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When Chris and Dylan Hoffmann shifted Brydaw Civil to Adelaide from Darwin, it was on the basis that demand for civil construction specialists was growing rapidly in the South Australian capital. Currently, there is a $12.9 billion pipeline of infrastructure projects creating thousands of jobs annuallyi. This investment includes congestionbusting road and public transport upgrades and school and hospital upgrades. Dylan Hoffman said, “We’re growing as Adelaide grows.” At the time of writing, Brydaw Civil is involved with the $98 million Portrush and Magill Road Intersection Upgradeii and the $13 million Nairne Intersection Upgrade iii. Brydaw is supplying diggers for Nairne project that involves the construction of a fourway, single-lane roundabout realigning the Woodside Road and Saleyard Road T-junctions with the Old Princes Highway at Nairne.
CRAYFISHING TO CIVIL CONSTRUCTION Dylan Hoffmann is under no illusions that commercial cray fishing taught him the value of hard work and set him up for his future endeavours in civil construction. Crayfishing is a seasonal enterprise running from October to May, but when the fishermen haul in the pots of gold, the work is seven days a week. “Every day you’re fishing whether it was raining or windy and whether the seas were big and rough. You’d still have to fish, CIVIL CONNECT
