Mike Gray BSc(hons) MRICS

Mike is the founder and a director of Axiom Building Consultants. He qualified as a chartered building surveyor in 2002 after graduating in building surveying from Reading University. Mike worked for international consultancies in London and Manchester before relocating to New Zealand in 2011. After several years in Auckland, Mike moved to Christchurch in 2018 to have ‘less traffic and more mountains’ in his life.

Mike provides high-value and strategic consultancy services to clients across New Zealand, specialising in due diligence, reinstatement, defects/damage analysis and sustainability, with post-graduate qualifications in law and quantity surveying. He’s also an IRATA rope access technician, and specialist in high access work certified in the use of fall arrest systems and elevated work platforms - Mike can be found assessing the facades and roofs of medium and high-rise buildings from Auckland and Wellington in the north, to Christchurch in the south.

GEOFF MATTHEWS PgDip BSc(Hons) MRICS

Geoff is a director of Axiom Building Consultants. He has worked with all the main asset classes of property in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and at all stages of the property life cycle. Geoff was accepted as a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in 2009 and joined Axiom in 2021 to provide a new way of working, for both himself, and his clients.

Geoff worked for large international multi-disciplinary real estate firms in Birmingham UK, gaining a wide range of experience, specialising in technical due diligence, contract administration and the resolution of lease reinstatement claims. After moving to New Zealand in 2015, his focus has remained on delivering these high-value specialist services to the commercial property sector. Geoff is also a qualified drone (UAV) operator allowing him to apply his knowledge of buildings to aerial surveying.

Outside of Axiom, Geoff works with the Canterbury Civil Defence and Emergency Management (CDEM) office as a volunteer co-ordinator, and is an active volunteer with the New Zealand Response Teams and St John.