I help you to see risks before they become problems. I work alongside your people to support them to be ready and to rise to the challenges of complex projects.
Property and construction
Delivering construction projects in an operating academic environment to amplify the impact on teaching and research.
Recovering from crisis
Delivering the learnings from earthquake disruption so you can get back to work faster.
Dispute resolution
Supporting you to achieve resolution to conflict and disputes with your commercial relationships and reputation intact.
Benefits
New facilities are a once in a career opportunity to amplify your ability to develop your research and grow your student numbers. The key is integrated planning.
Let’s get started!
Take the pressure out of your day by calling to discuss how I can tailor make a programme of support to support you. No more frustration and struggling to figure out what you should be focused on. Let me take the guesswork out for you.
Save time by integrating construction with academic planning
Save money by staying focussed on issues that move your project forward
Develop the confidence of your team with specialist coaching
Property and construction
Ernest Rutherford Building
Housing the Schools of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology and Geography and Biological Sciences, the Ernest Rutherford building is a five storey complex of specialist research and teaching laboratories. Science activities are proudly on display throughout the building, a hive of human centred community activity. The building also contains a number of back-of-house secure zones that were designed to safely transport hazardous chemicals and their waste products throughout the building.
A four storey braced timber framed building used Laminated Veneer Lumber timber frames that were themselves designed by University of Canterbury Engineering Professors. The building accommodates the College office, academic office spaces, learning and teaching spaces and a teaching laboratory. At the time of construction it was the first multi-storey timber frame commercial building in New Zealand.
Rehua Building
The old earthquake damaged Commerce building was stripped back to its structural frame and seismically strengthened and then refurbished and re-clad to create the Rehua building. It features a multi level atrium which serves as a central social space to the two wings and eight floors of light filled learning and teaching, community spaces, academic offices, project rooms, maker spaces and clinics. The Te Moana nui a Kiwa Centre in the complex is UC’s first custom-built cultural function space.
This greenfield development is the new home of the University of Canterbury Student Association (UCSA). It is purpose built multi-use facility that encompasses two bars, conference spaces, UCSA office, club spaces, three separate lounge / study spaces and a flexible performing space that works in flat floor or tiered theatre seating modes. The building takes advantage of several indoor/outdoor space configurations to facilitate the Student Orientation events.
Six building seismic strengthening with extensive refurbishment plus the addition of two new buildings in this programme designed to create a precinct of engineering facilities to support the growth of student enrolments. The new Core building created a central social hub for students which includes meeting rooms, lecture theatres, cafe lounges and informal study lounges and nooks.
This laboratory is less a building and more a piece of specialist research equipment. After the earthquakes the Professors saw that to improve engineering safety in NZ, research needed a larger facility to simulate full scale structural engineering research. The strong wall and floor contain 400 tonnes of steel reinforcing and 440 cubic metres of concrete that took 147 trucks twelve hours to pour.
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About Me
Alex brings over twenty years of experience in property and construction, as well as broader experience in technology, crisis and recovery management and organisational transformation. In her most recent role as a Senior Executive of the University of Canterbury, she was responsible for delivering the post-earthquake recovery programme.
Alex is an accredited Mediator and Non-Executive Board Director. She is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Company Directors, the Resolution Institute and the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand.
