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ABOUT US

Ascent Group is a boutique project management and quantity surveying consultancy. We work with developers, builders and funders on complex development and construction projects across the Southern Lakes and New Zealand.

We stay close to the detail, the decisions and the people. One project manager. Full accountability. No surprises.

We’re not the biggest firm in the room. We’re the most useful one.

Project Management Expertise

Deliver the upside.Protect the downside.

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We believe the best projects are built on trust, not just contracts. So we show up, stay close and hold the line, even when it would be easier not to.

End-to-end control that keeps your project on time, on budget, and on brief.

We provide structured project leadership from appointment through to completion, taking full responsibility for programme, cost, risk, and stakeholder coordination. Acting as your central point of accountability, we ensure every moving part is aligned and performing.

Our project management service includes:

  • Programme development, tracking, and recovery strategies
  • Budget management, cost reporting, and financial control
  • Consultant and contractor coordination and performance management
  • Procurement planning and contract administration
  • Risk identification, mitigation, and issue resolution
  • Governance, reporting, and stakeholder communication

We don’t just oversee — we actively manage decisions, drive progress, and protect outcomes so your project is delivered with clarity and confidence.

Turning ideas into viable, consented, and deliverable projects.

We guide projects from early concept through feasibility, consenting, and into delivery — ensuring every decision strengthens project viability, reduces risk, and maximises value.

Our development management service includes:

  • Feasibility analysis, site due diligence, and development strategy
  • Financial modelling, funding strategy, and investment readiness
  • Planning and consenting management, including authority engagement
  • Design team assembly and leadership through concept and design phases
  • Procurement strategy and delivery planning
  • Commercial structuring and value optimisation

We take a proactive, commercially focused approach — aligning design, planning, and financial outcomes early, so projects are not just visionary, but practical, fundable, and ready to deliver.

Commercial clarity from day one.

We provide estimating, cost planning, tender analysis, risk management, contract financial administration and forecasting so budgets and cost reporting are realistic and decisions stay informed. We also provide Funders QS Services on behalf of project funders.

Ascent Projects

We like complex projects.

It’s where we add the most value.

At Ascent, every project is an opportunity to create lasting value and deliver work that stands the test of time. Below is just a sample of a few projects our team is incredibly proud to have been a part of:

Ayrburn Precinct, Arrowtown

Shotover Rise Subdivision and Townhouse Development, Queenstown

GWD Toyota New Showroom and Workshop, Alexandra and Wanaka

Skyline, Queenstown

Queenstown Airport Back of House Project

Anderson Road Townhouse Development, Wanaka

The Headwaters, Glenorchy

Riverside Residences Townhouse Development, Wanaka

Ngāi Tahu Multi Residential Development, Queenstown

Fliways Buildings | Hamilton, Napier, Cromwell

Jack’s Point Remarkable Start Early Learning Centre & Queenstown Medical Centre, Queenstown

Harvard Hub, Wigram, Christchurch

Onsen Hot Pools, Queenstown

Jack’s Point Pharmacy Building, Queenstown

Mipad Hotel, Henry Street Queenstown

Waikato Regional Council Building, Hamilton

Alexandra Medical Centre Funders QS, Alexandra

Henare Drive - Rolleston Commercial Building PM & Funders QS, Christchurch

625 Halswell Junction Road | Commercial Building Redevelopment, Christchurch

Rangitane Road | New Commercial Building, Hastings

Millenium Hotel, Queenstown

Wanaka Primary School, Design and Build, Wanaka

Queenstown Police Station, Queenstown

Mercure Queenstown Resort, Queenstown

Oncology Centre Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin

SBS Head Office Building, Invercargill

Shotover Primary School, Queenstown

Crown Range Road Seal Extension, Queenstown

Good work starts with good people.

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Karsten Pedersen

Karsten Pedersen

ANZIQS Reg QS

Taylor Garfield

Taylor Garfield

Project Director

Stu Minty

Stu Minty

Project Director

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