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journey

Get acquainted with our team and understand how we work and proceed towards success.

Our story

Juffermans Surveyors Ltd (JSL) was founded in 2002 by Allen Juffermans.  Since its inception, JSL has played a significant role in shaping the land development and construction sectors in Taranaki.

JSL has a team of experienced surveyors, planners, and engineers who cover all aspects of development engineering, resource management, construction setout and monitoring, and simple back-yard subdivisions. JSL are quality focused, friendly and approachable. The in-house quality assurance systems and manuals ensure quality is maintained, and our clients are kept informed every step of the way.

Meet the team

Allen Juffermans

Founder and CEO

Allen is a graduate with a bachelor of Surveying from Otago University from 1997.

After training and registering as a surveyor in the Eastern Bay of Plenty and East Cape, he returned to Taranaki  in 2000.

In 2002, he started working from his kitchen table in Onaero, with the intention of just doing enough work to be comfortable.

In 2004, the property boom happened, and things became busy forcing Allen to employ staff to help him.

20 years later, Allen has a team of 12 surveyors, planners, engineers, landscape architects, and admin at the regional office in Stratford or the New Plymouth District Office.

Outside of work, Allen is kept happy and busy by his wife, Martha Dravitzki, their son Falcon and his 2 daughters Alana and Alex

Allen is a Trustee of the Rotokare Scenic Reserve, a wildlife sancuary inland of Eltham, which he and the family love spending their time helping out, or just enjoying being with the birds and trees, and catching the occasional Kiwi.

Keeping on his conservation bent, Allen has been on the Taranaki/Whanganui Conservation Board for 3 years, and is going for his second term of 3 years in 2022.

Mark Laurence

Surveyor

Mark has 14 years’ experience in surveying, planning, design and land development and was awarded the National Diploma of Surveying in 2017.

Mark has worked on major projects such as Transmission Gully and The Victoria Tunnel upgrades in Wellington and has worked on other large scale projects in Taranaki and Manawatu.

With JSL Mark has enjoyed getting out in the field to carry our a large number of rural subdivisions and has been able to apply his skills to a great number of different projects around Taranaki.

Mark enjoys being active and playing sports such as tennis, golf and mountain biking and is a member of the Okaiawa Tennis Club. He also keeps himself busy with his young family.

David Bowman

Senior Survey Quality Manager

David graduated with a Certificate in Survey Draughting in 1989.  Whilst studying, he started his working career in 1982 at a private survey firm in Dunedin as a Survey Technician.  In 1985, he moved to what was then Lands and Survey (now called Land Information NZ (LINZ)) specialising in Assessing Surveyors’ work that are submitted to LINZ.  After 22 years working at LINZ, he eventually moved back to private survey companies in Dunedin and Invercargill.

Since March 2022, David has now worked for JSL in the New Plymouth office as a Senior Survey Quality Manager and Survey Technician, bringing a vast amount of Cadastral Surveying experience, Quality Assurance and Survey Technician experience.  In fact, 38 years experience and counting!!  So if there’s anything Cadastral related, he’ll probably know the answer.

In his spare time, you’ll see David enjoying a competitive round of golf, going for hikes, reading and researching small house designs.

 

Landau Matapo

Surveyor

Martha Dravitzki

Landscape Architect

I have 15 years experience in landscape architecture and urban design. Skills like environmental protection and enhancement, landscape assessment, spatial planning, graphic production, communication and interpretation, street design and detailing, project management and specialist advisory roles, landscape analysis are key activities of my professional practice. I am able to work well in both local government and private business based teams.

I orientate myself towards opportunities to support development, environmental practices and other initiatives associated with urban and rural activities of the Taranaki region.

Adrian Coutts

Surveyor

Reuben Ritson

Surveyor

Kim Jansen

Engineer

Rex Hurley

Planner

Our Values

Passion

Passion drives us to perform better, progress continually and deliver timely.

Integrity

Our first principle is honesty, which helps us meet the expectations we create.

Commitment

Our commitment to our work and our clients creates an unbreakable bond.

Learning

Our team is always learning something new to get better at what they do.