Kumara Junction

Leading our Wānaka office is Joe Turner, a long-standing member of the DO team and keen mountain biker.

Joe has more than a decade of experience with Davis Ogilvie and has spent the past seven years as West Coast Engineering Manager, delivering projects across a wide range of environments and working closely with councils, contractors and clients. He recently relocated to Wānaka from the West Coast to head up our newest office.

He began his career as a survey assistant before moving into civil engineering as a technician, and has since developed strong expertise in civil engineering design, infrastructure delivery, flood resilience, consent support and project coordination, along with trusted working relationships across regional New Zealand.

He now brings that experience to Wānaka and, with extensive back-country experience including work as an Alpine Guide in Fox Glacier and competition at a national level in downhill mountain biking, is a natural fit for the region.

Nigel is a survey technician based in our Greymouth office, with close to 20 years’ experience working at Davis Ogilvie. He specialises in surveying work for urban and rural subdivisions, as well as engineering and building setouts. 

His work also includes a range of survey types, including legalisation, easement, redefinition and topographical surveys. In addition to his work in Greymouth, Nigel supports our Christchurch geotechnical team with site investigations across the West Coast. 

Pauline is a planner based in our Nelson office. She works with clients and resource consents across the Nelson, Tasman, Buller, Grey and Westland districts and also supports Buller District Council as a consultant planner.

Her work covers a broad range of planning projects, including rural and urban subdivisions, District Plan changes, land use consents, mining consents and road legalisation projects. 

Over more than two decades, Pauline’s role has evolved significantly. She started as office manager in our Greymouth office before transitioning into planning and relocating to Nelson in 2010. Her work places a strong focus on maintaining effective working relationships with council planning departments and taking a collaborative approach to efficiently resolving any planning issues that might arise.