Guy Dobson - Associate

Guy Dobson

Associate, Senior Chartered + Registered Building Surveyor
BSc (Hons), MRICS, MNZIBS

021 482 319
guy.dobson@prendos.co.nz

Guy has worked as a Building Surveyor for over 25 years; spending 14 years in Ireland and the UK before moving to New Zealand where he has worked for the past 12 years. His technical expertise, attention to detail and can-do attitude is complimented with his perseverance to ensure projects are completed in a timely manner and to the client’s expectations.

During his career, Guy has been involved in a number of major Auckland CBD property transactions, including a $600m transaction of a portfolio of Viaduct properties, and preparing vendor’s technical due diligence for an office park consisting of 13 office blocks and multi-storey carparks.

He has in-depth knowledge of preparing technical due diligence reports on private hospitals and medical facilities, shopping centres and other industrial and commercial buildings.

As part of a team of surveyors, Guy was involved in completing numerous asbestos inspections and preparation of asbestos registers on two large commercial property portfolios.

As part of a wider team of management consultants and building surveyors, Guy assisted with the inspection of a 1,200 residential property portfolio to assess the buildings for compliance with Healthy Homes Guarantee Act and graded them against a set of criteria by assigning a NAMS rating. Guy managed the onsite inspection teams, as well as physically completing inspections, to ensure all were completed within time and budget.

QUALIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
2023   Registered Building Surveyor (MNZIBS)
2016   IP402 – Surveying and sampling strategies for asbestos in buildings – BOHS
2001   Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
2000   Post Graduate Diploma in Construction Law and Contract Administration – Trinity College Dublin
1995   BSc (Hons) Building Surveying – South Bank University, London