Mark L Batchelar, Principal/ senior structural engineer

Mark founded the practise in 1985. Since then the qualified civil and structural engineer has designed numerous timber structures across Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, US, and also Europe. Mark is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institution of Professional Engineers and  also maintains a close working relationship with NZ research institutes. He regularly presents at international timber engineering conferences and local universities and this way helps to push the envelope in what can be 'done' with timber.  [More about Mark...]

Michael Newcombe, Structural engineer

Michael has an unwavering passion for timber design. During his undergraduate civil engineering degree at the University of Canterbury he began work on structural timber innovations for single and multistorey buildings. After graduating he travelled to Italy to complete a master degree at the European School for Earthquake Engineering. While there he learnt from world experts in seismic design and applied this knowledge in his masters’ dissertation on the seismically resistant multistorey timber buildings. Returning home to N.Z. he continued this research, performing large-scale earthquake experimentation on a two-storey structure as part of his doctorate. [More about Mike...]