BUILDING SURVEYS - Key Persons
Craig Stone has spent 13 years volunteering for Youth With a Mission and Mercy Ships (mainly in administrative roles), he wanted a new direction. He was fortunate enough to be offered a building apprenticeship. Over the last 15 years he has been in the building industry here in Tauranga and have been privileged to work for some very talented and well known specialised building companies, for both new builds and renovations.
Darren Carter has done project management through the design, consent and tendering phases of several large-scale multi-unit apartment remediation projects. He acted as a Project Manager and Engineer's representative on a multi-unit residential re-clad. Investigating and reporting on buildings with weathertightness issues.
Job Titles:
- Director / Surveyor
- Registered Building Inspector
- Sole Director of Building Surveying Services
Graeme Blissett (Registered Building Inspector - NZIBI, IP402 Qualified Asbestos Surveyor, NZQA Methamphetamine Tester and Internachi Covid-19 Qualified Home Inspector) is the sole director of Building Surveying Services (BOP) Limited. Graeme is the current president of NZIBI and often travels the length of New Zealand training inspectors and assessing new members. Graeme has recently purchased the business after both he and Frans Boucken (Registered Building Surveyor - NZIBS) had run it together for the past 17 years. Frans Boucken started the business in June 2000 and Graeme joined him in April 2003. Frans still continues to work in the business.
Graeme Blissett is the sole director of Building Surveying Services (BOP) Limited. With a life of building experience behind him he has been involved within the building industry for 37 years having left school and then completed his apprenticeship as a Carpenter and Joiner in Sydney, Australia. Graeme was the New South Wales Apprentice of the year during his third year of his apprenticeship in 1986. He then continued on to become a qualified Clerk Of Works completing this qualification for three nights a week over a three year period while still working 5 days a week.
Graeme left Australia to work in the building industry in the UK for 6 years. It was during this time he put his Clerk Of Works knowledge to the test and ran a large scale building refurbishment in central London for 4 of the 6 years. Since arriving in New Zealand in 1997 he started working as a builder and then quickly took up an opportunity to be a Construction Manager with one of Tauranga's leading home building companies. After 3 years he left this role to join Frans at Building Surveying Services (BOP) Limited.
Graeme has completed many weathertightness courses, BRANZ courses, NZIBS courses, NZQA Methamphetamine courses, Asbestos surveying courses and has an excellent general all round knowledge of the building industry. Lately Graeme has been handling numerous dispute cases and this has held him in great steed as being an expert witness in court, an area that he thrives in
Rob Johnston has over 30 years' experience in the construction industry including supervisory roles in both commercial and residential projects. This has provided hm with broad knowledge and experience across the building industry.
Rob has been working for Building Surveying Services (BOP) Limited for the past 3 years and is a current License Building Practitioner (LBP), NZQA Methamphetamine Sampling Technician and a Registered member of the New Zealand Institute of Building Inspectors. This has given Rob the confidence and experience required to complete any inspection on a property and he is an asset to Building Surveying Services (BOP) Limited.
Stephen Wright has been involved within the building industry for the last 32 years, entering the industry from a managerial role in agriculture. With experience in both commercial and residential construction this has provided hm with broad knowledge and experience across the building industry.
Stephen has been working with Building Surveying Services (BOP) Limited for the last 11 years conducting pre-purchase and pre-sale building inspections on both residential and commercial property. Stephen is a Registered Building Inspector with NZIBI, is an IP 402 Qualified Asbestos Surveyor, a NZQA Qualified Methamphetamine tester and has completed several of the NZIBS weathertightness modules. This has given Stephen the confidence and experience required to complete any inspection on a property and he is an asset to Building Surveying Services (BOP) Limited.