Charlotte Grieve, Landscape Architect at Thomas Consultants, shares her thoughts around the intersection between mana whenua and our Landscape Architecture practice. To celebrate Matariki festival this weekend, which signals us entering the Māori new year, we think it is a good opportunity to reflect on how we are currently partnering, engaging and working with mana…
Construction Underway at Prospect Primary School We have had some progress with our project at Prospect Primary School! Thomas Consultants is offering our one-stop-shop of services – engineering, landscape architecture and project management services for a project at Prospect Primary School in Glen Eden. It is a multi-staged project to renew their outdoor court, drainage…
Written by Imogen Trupinic – Senior Planner at Thomas Consultants What to look for when choosing a planner for your next land development project Where a resource consent is required, planners need to essentially project manage the process from when the application material is drafted till when the resource consent decision is in your hands.…
On Wednesday night, our Landscape Architecture team, Joseph McCready, Charlotte Grieve and Erin Phillips, were announced as finalists in the Te Nohonga Tuarua Seat Design Challenge Round Two. The event is organised by Brick Bay, Britomart, Resene, and the NZILA . The first stage involved producing a concept seat design. Being finalists means that we…
Written by Imogen Trupinic – Senior Planner at Thomas Consultants So you’re thinking about subdividing and don’t know where to start? Our Senior Planner Imogen offers 5 key planning tips to consider for your next development With terraced housing developments popping up around Auckland at a higher rate than before (thanks to the leniency provided…
Written by Charlotte Grieve – Landscape Architect at Thomas Consultants How do you go about choosing the best plants for your garden, development or public/ commercial project? It depends upon what is being designed, the intent behind it and to what scale, whether a low-maintenance subdivision or a simple park. Ideally though diversity is best…
Churchill Park – Landscape Architecture Project Update This week our landscape architecture team visited again Churchill Park and the proposed lookout site to check in on progress as it develops. The seating isn’t bolted yet, just placed, but the project is near complete and is really taking shape! All concrete has been poured now, including…
We have some exciting news as we grow here at Thomas Consultants Ltd! We have welcomed 14 new members to the Thomas Consultants Ltd team due to new business growth, adding a huge wealth of experience to our already highly experienced team. Bolstering the Ecology team we have Karien Killian who joined us as Intermediate…
Churchill Park – Landscape Architecture Project Update This week our landscape architecture team visited Churchill Park and the proposed lookout site there. The project is currently under construction and taking shape! So far there has been demolition of the redundant golf club house carpark and driveway. There has been an initial concrete pour and set…
Written by Canute Chandrakumaran – Land Development Team Leader at Thomas Consultants Ltd In most NZS 3910 physical works contracts, the Engineer will be named in the contract. He will not generally be a party to the contract. The Engineer will have input into the design produced on behalf of the principal. The Engineer will…
Written by Ashwita Murphy, Planning Team Leader at Thomas Consultants and Imogen Trupinic, Senior Planner at Thomas Consultants What is changing? The Government has proposed an overhaul of the current Resource Management Act (1991) (RMA). A total of three acts will replace the RMA: Natural Built Environments Act (NBA), Strategic Planning Act (SPA) and Climate…
Written by Melanie Dixon – Principal Ecologist at Thomas Consultants Last September the Government bought in new strong rules to protect wetlands – with good reason – recent work by the National Wetland Trust and others shows that we’re continuing to lose wetlands in New Zealand at an alarming rate. Roll on one year the…