Napier & Blakeley expands to New Zealand
New Director Daniel Small
After 38 years, we have crossed the ditch and are now open for business in Auckland & Christchurch providing quantity surveying, tax depreciation and technical due diligence services to property developers, financiers and investors.
This geographic expansion will complement our other teams in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, confirming our ability to provide our services throughout Australasia.
Napier & Blakeley will be led by local Director, Daniel Small. Daniel was an architectural builder before retraining as a quantity surveyor. He worked in New Zealand as a quantity surveyor before spending the past few years working in the Melbourne Napier & Blakeley team with Directors Craig Smith and John Atkins. During this time, Daniel gained experience in a wide range of sectors including residential, commercial, retail, childcare & land subdivisions.
Daniel has been very active in research into upfront embodied carbon and has played an active role in developing our service offering in this space.
Daniel’s areas of expertise include:
? Cost Planning
? QS Financier Reporting
? Embodied Carbon Measurement
? Pre-tender Estimates
? Value Management
? Schedules/Bills of Quantities
? Tendering
? Tender Reviews
? Procurement
? Engineer to the Contract/Superintendent
? Reinstatement Cost Assessments
Please contact Daniel for any Quantity Surveying advice in New Zealand
2023 was another intriguing year in the construction and property markets.
Construction cost escalation reduced on the previous year, the cost of debt stabilised, and there was positive population growth, all good fundamentals for our industry.
Property transactions across all sectors remained lower than normal, however we were still busy providing Technical Due Diligence on many of the major deals; Sheraton Mirage Gold Coast, Fitzroy Island, D’Albora Marina portfolio, the Healthscope portfolio of private hospitals, 555 Collins Street Melbourne and 1 Esplanade Perth, to name but a few.
Our construction and development services were in high demand all year. We advised on more than 600 projects ranging from $1M to $400M and over $5 Billion in cost.
Clients are the lifeblood of the construction, development and property markets, and as always we thank them for their trust in us as part of their team, creating and improving our shared liveable, economic, and sustainable futures.
Year in, year out, we thank all our N & B people for their continued reliability, dedication, professionalism, innovation and good cheer.
Our community includes our industry friends, suppliers, sub consultants, colleagues and organisations and we look forward to 2024 and to the future achievements we will make together.
In lieu of gifts, we have again donated throughout the year to charitable organisations, such as the Sydney Breast Cancer Foundation, SurfAid, and PIF.
Our last day of business for the year is Friday 22nd December and our first day back is Wednesday 10th January.
From everyone at Napier & Blakeley, have a great festive season and a successful 2024.