Mike Fleming
Senior CONSTRUCTION Surveyor
Mike has made his way on the varied tracks and trails of life – enjoying the view while deciding what mode of transport he prefers.
He has spent much of his life on the road – in one way or another – though Auckland has been home for most of his life. His career seemed set with Mike remembering holding a levelling staff for his architect father at a Ponsonby site when in his teens. And when watching surveyors work near the family home on the walk to school, and with encouragement from his dad, he took technical subjects at college: maths, physics, and technical drawing. He then completed a New Zealand Certificate in Land Surveying.
In the intervening years he’s been involved in significant projects including surveying volcanic viewshafts for the Auckland Council’s planning maps, the Sky Tower and other significant high rise building setouts , and immersed himself in an ongoing project for Waikato Regional Council monitoring stop banks and their assets. In the past 10 years Mike has concentrated on large scale commercial building setouts throughout Auckland.
Mike started at Envelope in 2023, having been tempted out of an early retirement by helping to grow the Auckland office’s new survey division with his vast experience in construction. Most of his work in on site, working alongside Team Envelope colleagues and clients.
In the early years Mike confesses to being ‘geeky’ about having the best car stereo, stereo system and home theatre (he still has some very expensive vintage speakers and a CD player which are now collectors’ items).
Cars have been another passion for Mike, and he gets a kind of faraway wistful look in his eye for the “mint” Nissan Skyline turbo he had, and regrets selling. The supercharged 5 litre V8 Jaguar in the garage has taken some of that pain away, though it is more often under cover than in use.
One reason for that might be that Mike and partner Michelle love cycling and have biked about 20 of the country’s major cycle trails. Their favourite is the Timber Trail through the Pureora Forest, right in the heart of the North Island – that one they have completed four times.
The pair have three rescue animals – cat Dex, and dogs Jack and Sally. They love travelling and although Yosemite National Park in the United States is a favourite international destination, Mike says a road trip around the South Island takes a lot of beating.
And whether its from a bike, a car, or on a ramble with one of his dogs, Mike never tires of surveying the scenery.
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