Company: McElhanney
Current position: Division Manager
Age: 33             
Education: BS surveying technology University of Otago

Buxton is a multi-talented and well-rounded consultant who has a passion for land rights and sustainable community development. She has 12 years of experience in land development in New Zealand and Canada since graduating from the University of Otago. Buxton’s infectious enthusiasm, passion, and drive for her career inspires her peers.

Now living in British Columbia, Canada, she is gaining work experience from a different perspective. Buxton looks forward to combining her years of experience in land surveying and land development with her academic studies and skills developed through volunteering, into a future in sustainable land development with community at the center, incorporating secure tenure, and sustainable design.

Buxton has been surveying since 2008 in many parts of New Zealand and Canada. Her experience ranges from the Christchurch rebuild post-earthquake in the infrastructure, residential, and geodetic sectors to large infrastructure projects and project management of small residential developments, medium-density residential developments, and large-scale housing developments. A licensed cadastral surveyor since 2017, Buxton has also managed engineering surveying projects, which include high-precision technical advice, legal surveying, client liaising, and bidding and winning work.

She is an active member of the International Federation of Surveyors, most recently as the leader of the Volunteer Community Surveyor Program (VCSP) and as a co-chair of the Women’s Access to Land working group. Buxton also volunteers on a working group for the Association of Canada Lands Surveyors’ Indigenous Relations Committee, and before moving to Canada she volunteered for the Survey and Spatial New Zealand Young Professionals and Pacific Advisory Group.