About Us

Woods is a wholly New Zealand, and employee-owned multi-disciplinary consultancy with a primary office located in Auckland and a secondary office located in Christchurch. Established in 1970, Woods has now grown to become a substantial consultancy with a team of 120 specialists providing Urban Design, Architecture, Engineering, Planning, Surveying and Geo-Spatial services to the land development, building, health, institutional, energy, government, and transport sectors, to name a few.

Our approach is ‘hands-on’. There are no ‘managers managing managers’, and we have a flat organisational structure, which is why you’ll find all four of our directors running and delivering projects. We foster a collaborative design approach to complex problems leading to, innovative and cost-effective strategic solutions to fit and meet even the most demanding of sites and scale of projects, all the way from large district scale developments to fingertip experiences at the human level. Through this approach, Woods is constantly evolving, innovating and leading the industry.

We have a long track record of success. We are the preferred supplier to several large developers— some we have worked with for over 20 years. As a result, developers and Councils trust us. They know we deliver quality projects that meet the strictest of timelines and to the highest standard. They’ve seen the proof.

We foster a collaborative design approach to complex problems leading to, innovative and cost-effective strategic solutions to fit and meet even the most demanding of sites and scale of projects, all the way from large district scale developments to fingertip experiences at the human level.

Woods is constantly evolving and innovating. We have created in-house our own technologies, systems and software that arm each one of our specialists with the tools to seamlessly and efficiently run every aspect of an on-going project.