1981 – 2021: Celebrating 40 years of creating legacies with land
2021 is a special year that marks four decades in business. It’s a 40-year story that has its roots in the single-minded passion for land development of our founder, David Fox. This ethos runs through the company to this day. Surveying has always been more than a profession for David since he qualified as a…
Read MoreIsland Hills – Converting Useable Farmland into Freehold Titles
Converting Useable Farmland into Freehold Titles There’s nothing the Fox team likes more than a challenge, and the Island Hills Tenure Review was quite a big one. Island Hills was a 5400-hectare farm in the High Country west of Culverden in North Canterbury. It was one of around 300 so-called pastoral leases which were spread…
Read More2020 Port Saddle Weeding Bee
The Port Saddle Weeding Bee initiative supports the long term Lyttelton ‘Port Saddle’ Masterplan project that is currently being undertaken by LPC in partnership with the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust. As proud sponsors of the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust (BPCT), the team at Fox & Associates were delighted to take part in this important project.…
Read MoreYour Trusted Advisors in Banks Peninsula
Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū/Banks Peninsula is a unique and distinct geographical feature within the footprint of Aotearoa/New Zealand, and it contains a wide variety of landscapes, ecosystems and people. For many people it is the tūrangawaewae of their whanau; for others it is the basis of their economic livelihood; and for city dwellers it is a huge…
Read MoreFrom the Top of Mountains to the Bottom of Rivers; How Fox and Associates is Leading an Evolution in Professional Surveying
In 1873, the HMS Challenger set out on a 3-year expedition to map the seabed of what is now known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. More than 500 plumb measurements (a plumb attached to a cable is dropped to the sea floor) were acquired to create one of the first bathymetric maps. While an extraordinary feat…
Read MoreCovid-19 update to our community – Alert Level 1
To the Fox & Associates Community, We finally did it! We are sure we weren’t the only office in New Zealand to breathe a collective sigh of relief as the move to Alert Level 1 was announced on Monday. Thank you to all of our clients and associates for your patience and cooperation during the…
Read MoreThe Results Are In – NPS 2020
At Fox & Associates, we are always looking for ways to improve our service delivery and ensure your experience with us is the best that it can be. To help us do this, we conduct Net Promoter Score® (NPS) client surveys on a semi-regular basis and recently, sent out an NPS survey to clients who…
Read MoreWorking with the Ferrymead Aeronautical Society
Something we love about working at Fox and Associates is the diverse range of interests across the team, from windsurfing to drag-racing to fishing. You can imagine that the lunchroom discussions are often fascinating and wide-ranging. One of the team has a slightly unusual hobby that has great synergy with their surveying work. For over…
Read MoreCovid-19 update to our community – Alert Level 2
To the Fox & Associates Community, It’s been great to welcome the change to Level 2. Here at Fox and Associates, we’ve worked hard on our COVID-19 response and mapping out the transitions between the various Alert Levels. Our fieldwork teams continue to operate as if they are in Level 3, with appropriate processes, protective…
Read MoreCovid-19 update to our community – Alert Level 3
To the Fox & Associates Community, We hope that you and your loved ones kept safe throughout Level 4 lockdown. The Fox team were scattered in bubbles from Kirwee to Picton, continuing where we could on office-based projects. The daily Zoom meetings kept the team tight and helped us set the priorities for the day…
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