Tonkin + Taylor Principal Planner Daniel Murray has 19 years’ professional experience in resource management planning, working across a wide variety of public and private sector projects including land transport, water resources, energy, mining, industry, and urban and rural development. His speciality is leading, managing and preparing Assessments of Effects on the Environment and providing expert evidence for complex and high-profile consenting processes.
Daniel has built an extensive track record in the natural resources sector and has the knowledge and experience necessary to communicate and work effectively with technical experts and stakeholders in this area. As a project manager, Daniel regularly leads multi-disciplinary teams in project delivery, and undertakes all aspects of contract, budget and schedule management.
Having joined Tonkin + Taylor in late 2016, one of his first roles was to provide expert planning advice to New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA), which required an independent review of the Multi-Criteria Analysis for the preferred option selection on Auckland’s East-West Link.
Following the devastating Hurunui/Kaikoura earthquake series, Daniel was seconded to the North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery Alliance (NCTIR) as Planning Approvals Manager. He has led a team working to obtain dozens of resource consent applications and other environmental authorisations in an incredibly challenging and dynamic disaster recovery environment.
Daniel is responsible for managing 10 staff, including planners, landscape architects and property specialists. He has worked closely with NZTA and KiwiRail planners, the NZTA Environment and Urban Design team, and construction, technical and design specialists.
During his 12 years with URS (later AECOM), Daniel was appointed to senior peer review roles on several major NZTA projects, including the SH1 Russley Road/Memorial Avenue Interchange and SH82 Waitaki Bridges Replacement project. He was also the Reporting Officer on the Christchurch Northern Corridor project, a Road of National Significance, working on behalf of Environment Canterbury.
