Heather has more than 30 years’ project management and building surveying experience – 20 of these at senior management level. She is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a past President of the New Zealand Institute of Building Surveyors.
Heather’s interest and expertise lies primarily in the contract administration and project management of remedial and refurbishment works for commercial and public sector buildings. Following the Canterbury earthquakes of 2011, she acted as project lead on 90 earthquake-related material damage surveys for Lincoln University, and project managed the $5.2 million remediation of Christchurch’s Buddhist Temple. She has also project-managed various upgrade and refit works for housing associations (both multiple occupancy and single residential units), the police service, health care trusts, shopping centres and large electrical goods stores across the UK and Ireland. More recently she delivered weathertightness remediation projects at various schools, and fire damage remediation works to several commercial premises, acting as Project Manager and Engineer to the Contract.
Heather’s impressive work history has armed her with an extraordinary breadth of professional and technical skills. Her expertise covers a variety of building surveying works, including weathertightness investigations, condition surveys and earthquake, fire and flood related damage assessments.
She has worked on numerous invasive and non-invasive investigations, defect analyses and weathertightness reports for government departments, hotel owners, Body Corporates and commercial building owners. Her knowledge in these areas has seen her act as expert witness in cases where design and construction defects have led to legal disputes. Her sound advice and detailed defect reports ultimately help bring these cases to resolution.
Heather has also carried out hundreds of stock condition surveys for housing associations (both multiple occupancy and single residential units) and health care trusts in the UK – including hospitals, health centres and offices – acting as project lead to manage and deliver the works, using a variety of software packages. More recently she delivered condition surveys and long-term maintenance plans for numerous buildings, including historic engineering works buildings in Dunedin, Rangiora council offices, community centres across the Western Bay of Plenty and swimming pool complexes in Nelson.
QUALIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
2022-2024 NZIBS Past President
2020-2022 NZIBS President
2017 RICS ‘Project Management Professional’ course
2016 MNZIBS
2005 MRICS
2002 Diploma in Surveying (with distinction) – The College of Estate Management
2000 Accessibility Auditing – University of Ulster
1998 BSc (Hons) Building Engineering & Management (1st Class) – University of Ulster
1993 BMedSc (Hons) 2.1 – Queens University Belfast