ANDREW McKAY - CV

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New Zealand Registered Architect since 1999 Registration No - 2866  www.nzrab.org.nz

Associate Member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects NZIA

BArch (1993) and BBSc (1991) from Victoria University of Wellington

CGM Architects in Wellington.  Senior Project Architect involved in Contract Administration of various projects.  Project Architect doing Sketch Design for Resource Consent applications and Design Documentation for Building Consent Applications.  Projects I was involved with included Commercial, Industrial, Multi-unit residential and high quality Housing.  I gained good experience in Administering Architectural projects

2009-07

Building Sabbatical in Wellington.  Following a bereavement, I took time away from Architecture to build my own house.  I undertook almost all aspects of the project including foundations, blockwork, timber framing, zinc cladding, plastering and paint.  This was a challenging project which taught me a lot about myself and helped me through a difficult time.

2007-04

Forge Architects in London.  Forge specialised in planning applications in South London.  Generally the projects were developer led, with the end client being affordable housing for Housing Associations.  Initially I spent two years with Forge (2001-3), and following a two year spell in NZ (2003-5), returned to London twice further for a year each time.  This job gave me excellent experience in designing large scale apartment buildings.

2007-01

Self Employed Documentation Contractor in York Bay.  I compiled working drawing packages for several Architects and Design companies over a period of three years.  The majority of Projects were “bespoke” houses. 

2001-98

Alastair McDougall Architects in Lower Hutt.  Alastair employed me as an Architecture Graduate, and over a period of 3 years gave me great experience in most aspects of being a sole practitioner Architect.  I greatly appreciated the education I received in this job.

1998-96

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa in Wellington.  Employed as an exhibition designer on the Earth Sciences Exhibitions.  This involved conceptual design, subject expert liaison and presentation work. I designed and documented the artifical rock in the outdoors park

1996-94