Phillip Hartley

MA MRICS Dipl. Bldg. Cons (RICS)

Phillip Hartley is a Chartered Building Surveyor who qualified in the UK in 1988, following a seven-year period of academic and practical training via the direct entry examination route set by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

In 1990, he was amongst the first intake of the new two-year Postgraduate Diploma in Building Conservation, jointly established by the RICS / College of Estate Management at the University of Reading. In 1992, he became one of the first Building Surveyors to be formally accredited in Building Conservation by the RICS, and subsequently completed a two-year MA in Architectural History at Keele University.

Phillip spent seven years working for a multi-disciplinary practice of Architects & Surveyors during his professional training, where he was involved in Church projects throughout London and South-east England. Once qualified, he moved to a specialist Building Surveying Practice where he maintained his involvement in historic buildings, and undertook his conservation diploma. In 1992 he joined the newly established Historic Royal Palaces Agency, where he became Head of Conservation within the Department of The Surveyor of the Fabric. He left the Agency in 2000 to establish a dedicated Historic Buildings Practice with his wife Tracey, based in South West England.

Phillip moved to Auckland in October 2005 and joined Alexander & Co., Building Surveyors, who specialise in the diagnosis of building defects and cladding (weathertightness) failures, remedial works design and dispute resolution. In January 2007 he joined Salmond Reed Architects Ltd. Phillip is the current Secretary of the Auckland Branch of NZ Historic Places Trust.

Phillip’s expertise include the analysis of building defects, condition assessments and the preparation of survey reports, design and specification of remedial repairs, management of projects on site, and setting conservation policies for heritage buildings and sites.