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Chris Jenkins - Biography

 

Chris Jenkins

In the early 1970's Chris graduated Bachelor of Engineering Civil (1st Class honours). In the following thirty five or so years as a professional engineer Chris has gained a wide range of experience in civil and structural engineering fields.
Engineering disciplines include development of infrastructure, land development, roading, heavy engineering for hydro-electric projects, high rise development, and stormwater management. All of which have led in a logical progression to asset management. Chris has worked within Local Government, with consultancies and contractors in New Zealand and Canada.

Chris lectures on "Expenditure and Decision Making" and "Statistics in Asset Management" to support the University of Auckland masters course in asset management. He has written the "Asset Grading Guidelines" a New Zealand National Guideline for condition grading of infrastructure assets. He has participated in the writing of the NAMS Property Asset Management Guidelines published by NAMS New Zealand.

His move some 15 years ago to asset management from the more traditional engineering disciplines was prompted by the wide range of opportunities that exist in the rapidly growing field of asset management.

Chris formed SPM Consultants together with Steve Lyons in 2001 with a clear focus to provide advanced analysis and asset management services. In this field Chris is a specialist in analysis and has developed internationally accepted deterioration modelling strategies. He is a leader in the development of capital works programmes and in the determination of funding requirements to support demand and population growth. He has developed a wide range of cost allocation methodologies aligning expenditure requirements with funding sources. SPM have assisted a large number of Councils across New Zealand through the implementation of both Financial and Development Contributions.

Asset management is his passion.


Chris has five wonderful children, four girls and one boy, in well established careers,  at university or at secondary school. All excel in their fields. Family occupies most of his spare time.