Recently promoted to Associate at Prendos, Heather is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the President of the New Zealand Institute of Building Surveyors. She has more than 20 years’ building surveying experience – ten of these at senior management level.

Heather’s impressive work history has armed her with an extraordinary breadth of professional and technical skills and considerable expertise. This covers a variety of building surveying works, including weather-tightness investigations, condition surveys and the completion of earthquake, fire and flood related damage assessments.

However, Heather’s particular interest and expertise lies 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. More recently she has project managed recladding works at various school buildings and fire damage reinstatement works to a Kiwirail office building and a bar and café complex.

She has also worked on numerous invasive and non-invasive investigations, defect analyses and weather-tightness reports for clients including government departments, hotel owners, Body Corporates and commercial building owners.

Heather’s expertise in these areas has seen her act as expert witness in cases where design and construction defects have led to legal disputes. She not only provides sound advice to clients, but prepares detailed reports on the defects to ultimately help bring these cases to resolution.

Heather has also carried out hundreds of stock condition surveys over her career 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 and using a variety of software packages.

QUALIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
2020   NZIBS President
2019   NZIBS Vice 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