• hands-on structural design, primarily for commercial and residential buildings, including seismic strengthening
• leadership of infrastructural management teams in the water and electricity supply industries
• contractor experience in the construction of medium-and large-scale projects.

Nigel Harwood is the director and principal consultant of Nigel Harwood Engineering Consultant Limited (nhecl).

Nigel has over 40 years of diverse experience in a range of engineering-related activities, including structural and civil design, contractor experience in the construction of medium and large-scale projects, and leadership of infrastructural management teams in the water and electricity supply industries.

Since 2011 Nigel’s work direction has been mainly structural and civil design works of a range of small-scale structures. Prior to this, he spent twenty years as a leader of asset management teams in Dunedin and Central Otago.

Nigel's Thoughts

Structural Engineering

"Structural engineering is the art of molding materials we don't wholly understand, into shapes we can't fully analyze, so as to withstand forces we can't really assess, in such a way that the community at large has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance." ...James E. Amrhein - Masonry Institute of America (Retired)

• Structural and civil design
• Communication with stakeholders
• Planning – operational and strategic
• Project feasibility analysis
• Project management, including project planning, capital project planning and RMA project management
• Risk analysis

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After the Christchurch earthquakes in September 2010 and February 2011, Nigel conducted building assessments and barricade positioning as a volunteer chartered engineer (pictured above third from the left with Police and Civil Defence representatives). Based on these experiences, he wrote a paper, published in the IPENZ magazine, to assist other volunteers.

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