Above Water is an engineering company that values efficiency. We offer practical high quality design at competitive prices.
We don’t want to hold you up - We understand that time matters on every project, we know you are in a rush to get your resource or building consent approved or get the retentions released from your construction contract.
Our Story
Above Water began its journey 8 years ago with the mission to provide good, solid engineering design and drafting outcomes for the Auckland and Waikato regions without the excessive price tag that comes with the large firms.
We value seamless, paperless, efficient processes, this means our design and drafting work is of high quality with a direct focus on what problem needs to be solved. Above Water seeks to avoid unnecessary work and to provide our clients with the design outcomes they need without over-inflated prices and modelling for modellings sake.
Our Team
Our Principal Engineer is Josy Cooper (BE, CPEng, CMEngNZ) who has 17 years experience working in civil engineering in both Australia and New Zealand. She works as a Practice Area Assessor for Engineering NZ and is a member of the Engineering NZ Waikato Branch Committee.
The Managing Director and Draftsperson is Charlie Cooper (BSc, PGDipSci) who has over 20 years of drafting experience working with civil, transport, structural and process drawings. Charlie has worked for SKM, Fletchers and AECOM as a draftsperson on major infrastructure projects. In a freelance capacity Charlie works on a full range of civil drawings covering, pipelines, pumpstations, grading, infill development, the 3 waters, residential subdivisions and commercial buildings.
Our Mission
We don’t want to hold you up - we know you are in a rush to get your resource or building consent approved, or to have the retentions released from your construction contract. Our experience working with local authorities and clients mean we can offer efficient outcomes that are easy to understand, within your timeframes.
Our staff have diverse skill sets covering both engineering and drafting fields and work flexibly and remotely using virtual workplaces.We are passionate about the future generation of Engineers and our work in the Education sector combined with our project work allows teaching with an industry focus.
Above all, we want to protect our neighbourhoods from the effects of future development, keeping all our homes Above Water.
