Associate Director
Mark arrived in Christchurch in January 2011, weeks before the February earthquake, an English project manager who had built an unusually broad construction background across years of UK retail and university work. He had not planned to stay long. The rebuild changed that, and he has spent the years since on some of the hardest sites in the city.
His expertise sits in live, operational environments, the projects that cannot stop while they are rebuilt. Hospitals, prisons, heritage buildings and campuses that have to keep treating patients, keep people secure or keep their doors open while construction goes on around them. It is demanding, exposed delivery that lives on stakeholder trust, and Mark is patient with it.
He managed around $100 million of earthquake repairs and strengthening across four Canterbury health campuses, live clinical sites where the work had to be staged around patients and staff. He led the restoration of Lincoln University's earthquake-damaged heritage buildings, and at Christchurch Men's Prison he has overseen demolition planning of the original high-security unit.
He increasingly holds the independent line, appointed as Engineer's Representative and Independent Certifier under NZS 3910, the impartial point that keeps a difficult build honest.
For all the difficulty of the sites he takes on, his approach is unshowy. Get the scope and the expectations clear, then deliver against them. "Clarity of scope and expectations, even if not fully specified, is important."
Ivey West & Memorial Hall
Te Rehua Dark Sky Project
Punangairi Visitor Experience Centre
