architect
tim.holmes@heritageworks.co.nz
+64 21 024 20829
Heritage assessment reports (for resource consent)
Conservation Plans
Planned Maintenance schedules
Temporary Protection plans for both investigation and implementation work
Strategic development review and assessments
Pre-Let inspections
Expert witness reports and representation
Conservation, restoration and repair design and specifications
Architectural conservation projects from beginning to end
Adaptation and extension projects
Design of new buildings to compliment, unlock or supplement existing Heritage buildings
Adaptive re-use / Interior fit-out design with experience in residential including multi-unit & aged care,
hospitality, hotel, office, retail, commercial, office, judicial and ecclesiastical uses.
Contract administration and project management of small projects
Peer review / second opinion review of reports, plans, proposals etc
Heritage consultation - To provide specialist advice and guidance to property owners, tenants
(fit out design), project managers, architects, developers, contractors, district and city councils.
Tim Holmes is a Heritage Professional in relation to Christchurch City Council District Plan
Rule 9.3.4 Historic heritage, Appendix 9.3.7.5 Heritage works plan and Appendix 9.3.7.6
Certification of non-heritage fabric.
Heritageworks brings experience gained on a broad range of projects to bear on the problems faced by Heritage building owners and the need to apply conservation principles to buildings that represent our cultural heritage. Productive use is key to a buildings survival, this requires maintenance, adaptation or addition and often benefits from an strategic assessment before getting to the detail, taking care to conduct conflicting interests of both stakeholders, building fabric and its servicing requirements.
Principal Tim Holmes is engaged by Christchurch City Council, Selwyn District Council, Westland District Council, Buller District Council, NZTA and Private clients working on a range of Heritage projects providing both reporting and project work. He is currently the conservation architect on the Provincial Council buildings in Christchurch and for previous employer’s Tim was involved on significant heritage buildings throughout New Zealand including the Christchurch Cathedral reinstatement project, the Arts centre of Christchurch, Turnbull House Wellington (with Warren And Mahoney) and Christs College with Wilkie and Bruce. This built on 15 years UK experience, where he won an RIBA award for restoration.
Tim is an architect, heritage professional, photographer and other doer who grew up on the South coast of England. He arrived in New Zealand in 2013 moving from Guernsey with his family and has lived in Christchurch since. He began work with architects Wilkie and Bruce, working on Earthquake strengthening, including the Kitchen Tower at Christ's College, Bishop Julius Hall accommodation and the replacement Music Centre of Christchurch (The Piano), he joined Warren and Mahoney architects in 2015 where he worked on, among others, the Justice Precinct, the Arts Centre of Christchurch and retirement villages.
Through these roles he has been involved with projects in Auckland, Wellington, Blenhiem, Westport and Dunedin and he has enjoyed experience of the wider kiwi cultural environment. He spent three years as Project architect and one of the Heritage Professionals on the Christchurch Cathedral Reinstatement project and carried out a post graduate course in Heritgage and Archeaology at the University of Leicester and qualified as a Heritage Professional under the Christchurch City Council District plan. He began working on a number of Christchurch city council Heritage Building for the Parks team and has provided expert witness work on the Christchurch City Council plan change PC13 & PC14.
Tim is on the board of ICOMOS NZ and is happy to share stories of the wonder and challenges of working on these and other great projects.