Robert Batty
Robert Batty, PG Dip Town and Country Planning, PG Dip Landscape Design RTPI, NZPI, Affiliate NZILA, is Principal Consultant for Planit Associates.
Bob qualified in the UK but has worked in planning in New Zealand since 1977. In this time he has worked for both regional and district councils as well as for a range of clients in a consultative capacity, including government departments, the United Nations, major corporate clients and private individuals.
Bob was a founder member of the Resource Management Law Association of New Zealand (RMLA) and was presented with the Distinguished Service Award of the New Zealand Planning Institute in November 2000. Bob is MfE certified to Chair hearing panels and over the past 14 years has been increasingly employed by a range of South Island District Councils and the Canterbury Regional Council in that role.
Alec Bruce
Alec Bruce, B Arch, ANZIA, Registered Architect (NZ), is a Director of Wilkie and Bruce Architects.
Wilkie and Bruce Architects is a well known Christchurch based practice formed in 1990. The work of the practice is characterised by its diversity and originality. As a practicing Architect responsible for many completed projects, including several high-profile commissions in Christchurch, Alec has an intimate understanding of the process that turns each design into a building and how in turn this impacts on the urban form of the city. He has received numerous NZIA and Civic Trust design awards and was the convenor of the South Island jury for NZIA National Design Awards in 2005. He sees the rapidly developing awareness of Urban Design as a part of a new collaborative approach where dialogue between parties who control the design and planning processes can assist in creating better design outcomes.
Diane Brand
Diane Brand is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Head at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture. Her research specialisation is the urban history of colonial cities in Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil.
Diane practises as an architect and urban designer and has been involved in award winning projects (including public space for the America's Cup Village and Maukau Square) in association with major NZ built environment practices. Diane was a member of the South Australian State Urban Design Panel from 1993-1994, and the Auckland City Urban Design Panel from 2005-2008. Diane has published in prestigious international academic journals including The Journal of Urban Design, Urban Design International Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and Antipodas. Her current research focus is an investigation of the use of waterfronts and water as public space in the colonial and contemporary worlds.
Tim Church
Tim Church, MUrbDes BLA is an Urban Designer and Principal at Boffa Miskell Ltd.
Tim is a qualified urban designer with a background in Landscape Architecture. He has over 11 years professional experience working as an urban designer and landscape architect across the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand in both public and private sectors. Since joining Boffa Miskell in 2006, he has undertaken urban design assignments nationwide at a range of scales, from structure planning through to detailed design guidance. Prior to this, he worked for five years as an urban designer with a London-based architectural practice specialising in large-scale urban regeneration projects.
Grant Edge
Grant Edge, BA, Dip. LA, FNZILA Registered NZILA Landscape Architect who runs his own business.
With over 25 years experience in landscape architecture Grant brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the panel. His business, Edge Landscape Projects Ltd is in its tenth year and encompasses a diverse portfolio of landscape architecture and project management work. He has previously worked for the Christchurch City Council's Parks Department, London Docklands Development Corporation and professional consultancies. He has extensive experience in liaising with developers and council staff, and engaging with the public, politicians and community groups.
Grant is a Fellow and the Vice-President and National Treasurer of the NZ Institute of Landscape Architects, and has been active in the local branch for many years.
William Field
William Field, BLA (Hons), BFA, ANZILA is a Landscape Architect and Principal at Boffa Miskell Ltd.
William is a qualified landscape architect and Boffa Miskell company Principal with over 10 years experience as a consultant in Christchurch and New Zealand. He has experience working on public and private sector urban landscape projects. This has involved large scale site design and consenting assessments within the context of the Christchurch City Plan and Resource Management Act. William's recent project design work and focus has involved the integration of urban amenity and ecology into the city environment.
Bill Gregory
Bill Gregory, B Arch (Hons), Registered Architect (NZ), ANZIA is a Director at Warren and Mahoney.
Bill is one of the practice's principal design architects and has been a key member in the project team for many significant Warren and Mahoney projects, including the new Supreme Court in Wellington and the new Domestic Terminal for Christchurch Airport. With a broad background of project work in health, commercial and institutional projects, Bill has worked from the Christchurch office of Warren and Mahoney for more than 20 years. He is involved in technology and freehand sketch work across Warren and Mahoney and is a member of the industry advisory committee for the Architecture course at CPIT.
John Hardwick-Smith
John Hardwick-Smith B. Arch (Hons), B. Building Science, B. Agr, Registered Architect, ANZIA, is a Director of Athfield Architects Ltd.
John graduated from the Wellington School of Architecture in 1992. Since then he has been working mostly in Wellington, on the conceptual design and design coordination of a wide range of architectural, urban design and landscape design projects. For the last eight years as a Director of Athfield Architects Ltd, he has led or co-led the design process with collaborators from Athfield Architects and other design disciplines for a number of cross-disciplinary projects. John's design input, recognised by numerous awards, includes work on the Wellington Waterfront such as the Taranaki wharf redevelopment, Waitangi park and several waterfront building refurbishment projects; master planning, Landscape and/ or new buildings in several tertiary institutions, The New Dowse Art Museum, Petone; Government House, Wellington; and the New Zealand Memorial, Hyde Park, London.
Nicole Lauenstein
Nicole Lauenstein, Dipl.Ing. Architektur, Dipl. Ing. Raum und Umweltplanung, Director of a+rchitecture.
Nicole has over 16 years of professional experience as an architect and urban designer working in Germany, Spain, Australia and New Zealand. She has run her own architectural and urban design practices in both Germany and now in New Zealand. Her business, a+rchitecture, combines both disciplines covering a wide range of projects varying in scale and complexity such as urban revitalisation of city centres, development of growth strategies for smaller communities, architectural buildings in the public realm and private residential projects.
Nicole has also been Faculty Director of Architecture at the Design and Arts College of New Zealand, taught at Christchurch Polytechnic as a part time lecturer in architecture and urban design and since 2005 has been a part time lecturer at Lincoln University in the Landscape Architecture Department teaching urban design at graduate and post graduate level.
Jasper van der Lingen
Jasper van der Lingen, BArch (Hons) ANZIA is currently a Director of Sheppard and Rout Architects Ltd.
Since graduating from the Auckland Architecture School in 1988 Jasper has worked in a number of architecture firms over the years including a three year period in London working on architectural projects associated with significant infrastructure works such as the Channel Tunnel and the Jubilee Line Extension. Since joining Sheppard & Rout in 1993 Jasper has worked as Design and Project Architect on large complex jobs, including the Christchurch International Airport Expansion, Burwood Hospital redevelopment and a number of university and educational facilities.
Jasper is particularly interested in how buildings are integrated into a context and help form the unique identity, memory and cultural setting of a place.
Graeme McDonald
Graeme McDonald, ANZIV, SPINZ, Executive member of the Property Council of New Zealand (South Island) is a Senior Valuer at DTZ.
Graeme has experience in a wide range of property classes from residential through to commercial, although primarily specialising in providing valuation and consultancy advice in the industrial and commercial sectors.
The scope of his experience ranges from valuing industrial properties such as coolstore facilities, food processing facilities, manufacturing plants, distribution and logistics complexes, workshops and warehouses; and commercial properties such as bulk, suburban and CBD retail and CBD office accommodation.
David Sheppard
David Sheppard, B Arch (Hons), M Arch, M City Planning, FNZIA, MNZPI is a Director of Sheppard and Rout Architects Ltd.
After training in New Zealand and the United States David worked on a range of large scale projects in the US and in Europe for several years before returning to New Zealand in 1975 to direct a major planning project near Christchurch. In 1982 he formed Sheppard and Rout Architects with fellow Architect Jonty Rout. In the ensuing 26 years the practice has carried out a diverse range of projects throughout New Zealand and overseas, in architecture and urban design. Today the practice is one of the larger practices in the South Island and consults to numerous public as well as private clients.
David has directed the design and planning of projects in the residential, education, health, commercial, Foreign Affairs and urban design sectors. He has served on various Institute of Architects committees and in 1992 was Chairman of the Institute National Design Awards jury. In 2006 he was Convenor of the South Island Regional Awards and a member of the National Awards jury. He is a member of the Institute's College of Fellows.
