Davis Ogilvie Professional Services

In 1932, Davis Ogilvie & Partners began with a vision, and a single-minded dedication to becoming leaders in land development. In over 75 years that powerful vision has become a reality. Our company has become a multi-million dollar enterprise with over 55 employees. We serve clients around the South Island, providing a range of planning, engineering, design and surveying services.

Throughout its history, Davis Ogilvie has achieved its leadership position by performing at a consistently high level. We’ve anticipated changes in the industry, providing exceptional service and technologically advanced systems. We’ve continually moved forward, contributing to the effective and efficient growth of the environments we inhabit. While technology has been crucial, our people have played the most important role in Davis Ogilvie’s success. Since 1932, their expertise, professionalism and profound integrity have made this company great.

All organisations aim to offer a customer experience which excels at all points of interaction. Cost effective provision of quality services with a focus on risk management is a key requirement of all development projects, however it is usually difficult for a technical consultant to influence the key drivers of a project. The long term success of our clients will be influenced by our ability to continually improve the quality of our service, whilst still delivering cost effective results and most importantly our ability to add value during the identification and acquisition phase of a project. This link between provision of services and client success is fundamental to the Davis Ogilvie strategy. Long-term relationships simply do not happen without delivering results - and our business strategy is based on establishing long-term partnerships with our clients. A number of important priorities support this strategy. Priorities which are designed to focus our business activities and provide consistent targets across each of our business units. They are as follows:

• Enabling our clients to be best placed to succeed under regulated conditions
• Delivering technical solutions based on shared knowledge and benefits wherever possible
• Responding to new opportunities with commercial flexibility and creativity, adding value through innovation beyond contracted terms
• Integrating risk/reward and gain-sharing elements into contracts
• Build project delivery models complementary to our client’s strategies, forecasts and priorities

To facilitate these outcomes, we have structured the business to operate as five separate but closely linked business units. Each business unit has a mandate to develop specialist skills in its own area and to bring this knowledge together as a team in ensuring that shared information is provided to each project in a proactive manner.

• DO Professional Services (Professional Surveying, Engineering and Planning, etc)
• DO Financial Services (Financial Analysis and Management)
• DO Development Services (Development and Project Management)
• DO Information Services (Research and Information Management)
• DO Enterprises (Commercial Involvement)

Working with our clients we aim to provide a structure and management which contributes and compliments the priorities of each project. The development industry in particular presents unique challenges in terms of priorities, opportunities, risks, and pressures. With different forms of project structuring and the appropriate inputs from specialist teams, ambitious targets for development outcomes can be faced with confidence that good economic, environmental and social outcomes can be achieved.