Our Team
Licensed Cadastral Surveyors, based in Takapuna.
How this started
Before GeoSurvey I spent almost twenty years underground and on motorways: Victoria Park Tunnel, Waterview, Puhoi to Warkworth and City Rail Link, running the survey teams on the last three. Then two years as General Manager of Survey Worx, the country's largest employer of surveyors. Great projects, and a hard school. In 2023 I left to run GeoSurvey full time.
Alongside the survey work I spent close to ten years running the Survey and Spatial New Zealand Engineering Surveying stream, and from 2013 I worked on developing the Certified Professional Engineering Surveyor qualification, through to its establishment in 2022. In 2023 S+SNZ gave me their Engineering Surveying Award.
I now assess CPESurv candidates, and I sit on the working group hammering out how spatial measurement competency should be certified in this country. Which is to say: when standards get argued about, I am in the room. We explain the certifications here.
In 2024 we ran one of the first HP SitePrint robots in the country. Non-square building, polished concrete floor, no second chances if the marks went down wrong. It worked beautifully, and it rained about an hour after we finished.
Eight of us now, out of B:Hive in Takapuna on the North Shore, covering Auckland and the upper North Island.
Michael Cutfield, Managing Director
Milestones
2023 · Full time
Michael left Survey Worx to run GeoSurvey full time, after almost twenty years on the country's biggest infrastructure jobs.
2023 · Engineering Surveying Award
From Survey and Spatial New Zealand, at the national conference in Dunedin. There were a few sore heads the next morning.
2024 · We let a robot do the marking
One of the first HP SitePrint deployments in New Zealand, on a slab where a mistake would have been permanent.
2025 · Back on City Rail Link
Property survey delivery for City Rail Link Ltd: defining the land the tunnels and stations now sit in, five years after running the C3 construction survey team.
The team
Michael Cutfield
Licensed Cadastral Surveyor and CPESurv. S+SNZ CPESurv assessor and member of the working group advising on spatial measurement certification standards.
Ryan Trotter
Field delivery, technical coordination and reliable execution across multidisciplinary projects.
Jacques Kriek
Three decades of international surveying experience, with a strong focus on accuracy and dependable results.
Jerry Zheng
Cadastral and construction survey delivery, working closely with legal and project stakeholders.
Nathan Lim
Scan-to-BIM and point cloud to Revit modelling, 3D building information models, and CAD and DWG deliverables.
Theo Gray
Field delivery support, data processing and survey outputs across cadastral, drone and point-cloud workflows.
Riki Bush
Field delivery support and setout assistance across construction and infrastructure sites.
Vanesa Cutfield
Accounts, credit management and office operations, supporting smooth project delivery.
Ruri Whenua
We also trade as Ruri Whenua, our Māori-owned arm, registered with Amotai. If your procurement has Māori business targets attached to it, this is how we help you hit them without changing who actually turns up on site. Same people, same instruments, same fussiness about the numbers.
Affiliations
Not sure what the different surveying qualifications actually mean? We explain them here.
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