With 45 years’ experience in New Zealand, the UK, Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines and PNG. I have led the structural team on multiple high-rise and long-span structures including buildings, sculptures and stadia.
I provide strategic advice to architects, developers, building owners and managers and contractors around how to set up their building design to ensure it meets their needs. If you’re looking for strategic structural engineering input you’ll benefit from my experience and knowledge of the most efficient way to organise a structure to achieve a specific set of objectives. I also manage our structural engineering team, design the structures for new buildings and assess and strengthen existing ones.
My approach is to begin projects without a preconceived view of how things should be done, instead ensuring I understand the owner and architects’ specific objectives for that project. I then provide advice around how best to organise the structure to suit.
You can expect open-mindedness and teamwork - everyone has different knowledge and experience and I believe in leveraging this to get the right outcome. I will help to steer you in the right direction and will deliver technically. You can be confident that my team’s structural solutions are both feasible and efficient and that we can solve original challenges with no precedent. I also regularly work as an expert witness to help resolve disputes for government agencies, local bodies, insurance companies, building owners and construction companies.
Project Highlights
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Summerset Half Moon Bay and Parnell Retirement Villages in Auckland are 43,000m2 and 52,000m2 GFA developments respectively, up to 9 storeys high. They have basement carparks, landscaped podium floors, public amenity areas, apartments and care units. We provided strategic advice regarding enabling works and staging as well as design and construction monitoring of the building structures.
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Mercy Hospital redevelopment in Auckland, a new building including 10 operating theatres (OT), a 6-bed intensive care unit (ICU), 6 bed High Dependency Unit (HDU), post-anaesthesia care units (PACU), 24 bed ward, sterile stores and other equipment storage, plant rooms, circulation, and staff facilities. Our work included design of the main building structure as well as alterations to adjacent buildings, and supports and seismic bracing for medical equipment, building services, plant, partitions, ceilings and glazing/window systems.
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The Downtown Ferry Basin Redevelopment for Auckland Transport, which is being constructed ahead of the 2021 America’s Cup. Our structural engineering innovation and expertise has enabled a striking yet functional design for new ferry berths, gangways and gangway shelters along the western edge of Queens Wharf; together with alterations to the existing Ferry Terminal Building.
- As an expert witness, I was joint investigator for DBH (now MBIE) into the collapses of the CTV Building in Christchurch, appearing at the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission. I also investigated and reported on the Stadium Southland roof collapse in Invercargill, and problems with the initial construction of the Vector Arena roof structure in Auckland.
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Ravenscar House in central Christchurch; a grand residence/museum that will house one of New Zealand’s most important private collections of fine arts, sculpture and furniture. We worked with Patterson Associates Architects to design this important building and have protected it against future earthquakes on a base-isolated platform above the basement car park.
Qualifications
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Master of Engineering (Civil) University of Auckland
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Chartered Professional Engineer
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International Professional Engineer (NZ)
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Fellow of Engineering New Zealand
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Past President and Life Member of New Zealand Structural Engineering Society
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Member of New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering