Gilbert Brakey:
Gilbert Brakey director of Biolandscape Limited is based in Auckland providing a direct and personal service to clients through out NZ. Gilbert's skills and expertise present a mix of specialist skills, which commonly relate to landscape architecture, integrating ecology, and natural resource management to provide strategic environmental advice and a high quality service to the public and private sectors within the practice of Landscape Architecture.
Gilbert's area of specialist expertise is with plants and their place in the landscape. His broad background and experience of working with New Zealand and Australian flora can ensure a successful and sustainable green outcome for Biolandscape Ltd. clients. Gilbert has over 30 years experience in the fields of landscape architecture, amenity horticulture and natural resource management.
He trained at the prestigious Adelaide Botanic Gardens in Australia before moving to Christchurch NZ to complete the National Diploma in Horticulture (Amenity), while working for the Christchurch City Council Botanic Garden and Parks Department. He went onto work with Littlewood & Associates (Landscape Architects ChCh), then with the Canterbury Education Board, planning new school developments throughout the Canterbury/Westland Regions.
He later established a Canterbury based landscape design business, practising for 18 years throughout New Zealand and later Australia (Sydney/Perth), on a wide range of private commissions.
He has worked on the Waitakere City Council's, Project Twin Streams and the Whau River Catchment community ecological restoration projects. For a number of years Gilbert held an operational position with a firm of Consulting Engineers based in Auckland, as Project Manager/Landscape Architect, providing services for the outdoor recreation, parks & forestry sectors throughout New Zealand. Projects included walkways, nature trails, equestrian trails, national cycleways, & mountain bike trails, for local councils, regional councils, and the Department of Conservation.