Bianca Hurrell

Associate Director

Sectors

Urban Development

Education

Office & Workplace

Service

Strategy

Contact

E.bhurrell@rcp.co.nz

Bianca started out as a town planner in Wellington before joining RCP in 2011. Her talent for consenting showed almost immediately, when she consented Queens Wharf under brand new legislation in the rush before that year's Rugby World Cup. It set the pattern for a career spent at the complex, contested and often untested end of approvals, the work that decides whether a major project can go ahead at all.

Since then she has handled the above and below ground consenting on the roughly $1 billion Commercial Bay development, taking a plan change and road stopping process through the Environment Court, and is now among the first practitioners working under the Fast Track Approvals Act, where her current work includes the University of Auckland's city campus redevelopment. Clients come to her when the path forward is unclear, or does not yet exist.

There is a tangible, enduring outcome to the hard work we do. We create built assets for the community, assets that live on through thoughtful landscape design, public art and cultural overlays that reflect the identity and stories of the place they sit within.

Bianca HurrellAssociate Director

Relationship building runs through all of it. Bianca describes herself as a "technical bridge" between stakeholders, able to distil dense technical detail into something everyone can act on, and she works increasingly with iwi. On Commercial Bay and the Deloitte Centre she led mana whenua engagement on Te Aranga Māori design, seeing it realized through mahi toi commissions with mana whenua artists. "You engage early, you listen, and you're honest about what you don't yet know."

Bianca sees the industry moving toward broader outcomes, the social, cultural, economic and environmental value a project can carry, and RCP's role in drawing those opportunities out.

Let's do great things together

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