10 | DEVELOPMENT Cato Bolam Consultants A passion for creating great places Richard Loader Birchdale Close, a premium Countryside Living rural subdivision development. Much has happened over the fifty years that Cato Bolam Consultants has been providing a diverse range of professional services to its valued clients, but at its heart are people, relationships and a passion for creating great places. “Our people remain our strength,” says Michelle Bain, one of the directors of the multi-discipline consultancy. “Our team is passionate about working collaboratively with our clients throughout the lifecycle of projects, from initial consultation, feasibility, design and consenting and through to construction and completion. “We provide start to end solutions for land development, housing, subdivision, and infrastructure projects. We’re effectively a one-stop-shop.” From its inception from 1972 as two small survey firms led by Graham Cato and John Bolam the company combined into Cato Bolam Consultants in 2001 and has continued on its journey of growth to this day. “As the company has grown, so have the services offered to our clients. “We’ve remained agile in response to the changing land development, legislative and technology environments, so that we remain leaders in our industry and the services we provide to our clients.” With around 100 professionals across offices in Henderson, Orewa, Manukau, Whangarei and Waiheke, Cato Bolam’s services include professional planning, surveying, engineering, architecture, land contamination and ecology consultancy providing services for land development, subdivision, housing and infrastructure. “We’ve always had a focus on serving local communities. We’ve consciously kept our offices local, close to our clients and close to where our people live rather than centralising our operations. “The geographical reach of our office’s extends across New Zealand, with the client base generally focused in the upper North Island from Whitianga in the east, through Waikato, Auckland and Northland.” Core customer sectors embrace ‘mum and dad’ landowners in an urban area who might want to subdivide or develop the back of their property or the farmer wanting to protect bush and wetland, right through to experienced corporate developers and local and central government agencies. “We have a huge depth of professional “We provide start to end solutions for land development, housing, subdivision, and infrastructure projects. We’re effectively a one-stop-shop.” expertise across our planning, surveying, civil engineering, architecture and environmental disciplines. We assemble the best team targeted for each project and can provide services from the start to finish of a project. We have built a reputation for providing tailored, dependable, best practice quality services in a friendly and approachable way”. Grateful for the long-term relationships with clients that now span five decades, the team can reflect on over 46,000 projects that have been completed. Some of the larger projects include commercial developments across Westgate Town Centre (including the soon to be opened Costco); Kumeu Town Centre; and greenfields residential development at Gulf Harbour; Pauanui, Whitanga and Marsden Cove Waterways Riverhead South and Huapai Triangle development. In more recent times a major area of work has been in residential development with major projects including 100+ unit developments and apartment buildings up to 16 stories. In an environment of ever-increasing complexity, Cato Bolam’s highly developed experience and skills are utilised to work through the various processes and standards that must be complied with, all the while maintaining the objective of delivering first class solutions for the company’s many and diverse clients. For fifty years Cato Bolam has consistently demonstrated its agility, adapting and responding to the needs of its clients, community and the environment it works in and influences. “The company is now very much focused on the future. We’re seeing major shifts in urban landform, in modes of transportation, in sustainable practices for production and living. We are well placed as we look to the future and continue to achieve the company’s purpose — Creating Great Places.” Hoppers have been creating exceptional lifestyle projects for over 60 years including Pauanui, Whitianga Waterways and Marsden Cove. As a family owned and operated company, Hopper lifestyle developments are created to stand out from the rest, providing a premier standard in living. From coastal communities to retirement villages a Hopper lifestyle is the way living should be. HOP P E R S . CO . NZ Find your bliss with a Hopper Lifestyle.
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