Specialist Rivers & Stormwater Engineering
Providing strategic advice, design, construction supervision and peer review for flooding and erosion issues.
Chartered Professional Engineer
BE (Hons)
ME Natural Resources
MBA
Kyle Christensen
Kyle is an Independent Consultant with over 20 years’ experience in River and Stormwater Engineering.
He has a Bachelor of Natural Resources Engineering as well as a Master of Engineering specialising in the interaction of river control works and morphological processes in river systems.
Kyle is a Chartered Professional Engineer, a practice area assessor for Engineering NZ and is also the past Chairman of the Engineering NZ/Water NZ Rivers Group.
Professional Affiliations
Engineering New Zealand
Practice area assessor
NZ Rivers Group
Past president, member
Institute of Directors NZ
Member
NZ Hydrological Society
Member
NZ Freshwater Sciences Society
Member
Water New Zealand
Member
Services
Expert advisory consultancy for flooding & erosion issues.
Post-flood event review of system performance.
Strategic advice on solving floodplain management issues.
Detailed design of river works including rock revetments & groynes.
Design, contract administration & construction supervision
of river & stormwater works.
Peer review of river & stormwater-related resource consents.
Clients
Bay of Plenty Regional Council
Hawkes Bay Regional Council
Hastings District Council
New Plymouth District Council
Kapiti Coast District Council
Upper Hutt City Council
Greater Wellington Regional Council
Tasman District Council
Timaru District Council
Environment Southland
Wellington Water
The Property Group
Pioneer Energy Limited
FirstGas
Significant Projects
Kapiti Coast District Council
Engineer to Contract for stormwater & coastal construction projects including network upgrades, stream works, coastal defences and pipeline relining.
Te Awa Kairangi Erosion Management
Design of erosion management works for six sites on Te Awa Kairangi.
Rangitata River - Peel Forest Landfill
Design and Engineer to the Contract for construction of 30,000 cubic metre gravel embankment to manage erosion risk to Peel Forest closed landfill.
July 2021 Emergency Works - Wellington Water
Design and advisory services for a number of sites affected by July 2021 flooding, included reinstatement of stream crossings, bank protection, stormwater chutes, intakes and energy dissipation structures.
RiverLink
River Engineering and geomorphology design expert for large scale upgrade of Te Awa Kairangi through the Lower Hutt City Centre.
Rangitaiki River Scheme Review
River and floodplain management expert on panel that evaluated the failure of the Rangitaiki River flood defences that flooded Edgecumbe in 2017.
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