Welcome to Kirk Roberts Consulting. We offer a full range of construction engineering disciplines – geotechnical, environmental, civil, structural, and fire, complementing this are our architects and building information modelling experts.
Our team are passionate about creating futures – what does this mean to you? We’re passionate about creating futures for businesses, people and communities. Creating sustainable designs, the best remediation strategies, structural designs and design solutions.
Our team constantly work to find the best way for our clients. The best way to deliver a project, the best way to design and build, and more importantly the best way to add value. We’ll find the right solution to match your project.
Our reputation is built on our ability to find creative solutions, avoid surprises and reducing the potential for overruns. The buildings we design are clever yet simple, and constructable to high quality standards.
We work from the soil to the sky. Our four divisions – KR Engineering, KR Projects, KR Capital, and KR Software – are a blend of ingenious minds and global expertise.
Sectors we work in
Agribusiness
From farm infrastructure to large-scale storage solutions, our team has delivered a wide range of high-performance buildings designed specifically for rural operations.
Arts and Culture
When people think of structural engineering and design, buildings are often the first thing that comes to mind. Our team have been involved in so much more than that. Helping artists & sculptors deliver their visions is another passion of ours.
Commercial & Retail
Our client base features some of the largest and most significant companies and exporters contributing to New Zealand’s economy. Our work can be found in single-storey office and retail facilities, multi-storey and multi-tenanted commercial buildings, business parks and expansive portal frame warehouses.
Education
We work extensively in the education sector, where our clients include the Ministry of Education, government-funded academies, institutes, trusts, and private sector educational institutes.
Government
Our public sector experience has seen us complete projects for the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and Ministry of Health, Kāinga Ora, as well as several community-based organisations with Government contracts.
Health and Retirement Living
Our KR Engineering and KR Projects divisions have worked on numerous health-care facilities, ranging from laboratories to aged care facilities.
Industrial
We have extensive design and engineering expertise in industrial and factory buildings. Our integrated service includes planning, design, engineering, architecture, and project management, that enables our clients to benefit from all our disciplines.
Land Development
With the surge in subdivisions and commercial growth across Aotearoa our teams are at the forefront of land development: evaluating, planning, engineering, and construction of improvements on land based on codes and regulations set by the regions.
Modular
Our engineers have extensive experience in modular buildings and volumetric design. We have completed projects using this design mythology across schools, residential developments and hotels. This approach is also highly effective for hospitals, aged-care facilities, and industrial developments.
Residential
We’ve worked on thousands of homes around Aotearoa across all disciplines, delivering high quality high end architectural homes, baches, multi-level, and community housing. Our engineering has underpinned many award-winning homes across New Zealand, we are proud to work alongside leading architects, designers, building companies, and government agencies to deliver residential solutions.
Recreation
We have extensive and wide ranging experience in designing and developing recreational spaces from the everyday to the iconic.
Tourism and Hospitality
We have experience in a range of motel, hotel and tourism developments. We know hotels from the inside out – from conception to realisation. We’re renowned for providing the lowest ‘cost per key’ hotel developments nationally. We achieve this by truly understanding tourism and hospitality and applying our multi-discipline knowledge.
Our solutions-focused approach challenges norms, while every project is propelled by the question “how can we add value to your project?”
Our divisions
Our projects
26 Aroha Avenue, Auckland – The engineering behind the award-winning 26 Aroha Avenue
Tamahere Country Club, Hamilton – Luxury Retirement Development in the Heart of the Waikato
Wildfire Assessment, Wanaka – Development of a specialised wildfire risk assessment
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