Mike Baker

Director, Chartered Fellow Senior Mechanical, Hydraulics + Civil Engineer

Mike is the practice managing director, responsible for TMCo’s delivery overall.

Friendly, responsive and a great listener – he will deliver practical and buildable solutions that will meet your project needs.

Multi-award winning for “Business Service Excellence” with 18 years’ experience in delivering projects across:

  • Airports(airside and landside, new buildings, infrastructure, green ratings, fitouts, hospitality, security)
  • Apartments(from cost effective to national award winners in luxury)
  • Carparks(extract duct-free design)
  • Civic(council buildings, infrastructure, theatres, pool complexes, arenas, libraries, pump stations)
  • Combined Clubs(Papanui, Richmond Workingmen’s, Hornby Workingmen’s, Marlborough Combined Clubs, Ashburton MSA)
  • Commercial(180,000m2+ of office and fitout development)Data Centres(to tier 3)
  • Education(135 schools including private, public, early childhood, polytechnics, universities, ESOL)
  • Education(135 schools including private, public, early childhood, polytechnics, universities, ESOL)
  • Green Star and NABERSNZ(Achieved the first and highest NABERSNZ whole building rating 5.5 star and many others, including many 4-6 star Green Star projects)
  • Hospitality(75+ bar, restaurants and night clubs, breweries, food and beverage) with many award winners
  • Hotels, travel and tourism(45+ hotels, many more motels, hostels, adventure tourism, ski fields, etc)
  • Industrial(processing plant, warehouses, factories, abattoirs, etc)
  • Infrastructure(roading, rail, in-ground services, critical services)
  • Laboratories(research, pathogen control, hazardous substances)
  • Medical(hospitals, dental, surgeries, TSSUs, clinical, mental health, research, training, acute services, outpatients, emergency department, medical centres, private healthcare, dementia, etc)
  • Prisons(throughout NZ and Australia)
  • Religious(churches, mass gatherings, all denominations, green star for churches)
  • Residential(2,000+ homes, sustainable, passive house, home star, small-palatial, high security, off-grid, solar, pools, central heating, energy modelling, high performance)
  • Retail Malls(Merivale Mall, Barrington Mall, Richmond Mall (Nelson), LynnMall, The Hub Hornby, The Palms, Waitakere Mega Centre, The Terrace Christchurch, Northwood Supa Centre, Ballantynes, Bishopdale Mall, Cashel Mall, etc)
  • Retail Large Tenancies(Briscoes, Kmart, Spotlight, Rebel Sport, Bunnings, Smiths City, Harvey Norman Centre, Bed Bath, etc)
  • Retirement($1.5bn in aged care and retirement projects including pools and village centres)
  • Reviews(design and peer review for mechanical, hydraulics and sustainability includingPS2 services)
  • Seismic(seismic design for services for all type of projects)
  • Sustainability: He is a regular speaker for EECA and runs industry training sessions for NABERSNZ training, HVAC systems, hydraulic services and Climate Leaders Coalition. Mike recently completed a four-week tour of the North and South Islands to train architects, designers, QSs and PMs in designing more efficiently but increasing building comfort – simultaneously reducing capex and opex. 1,000 have attended these seminars.
  • Sports(pools, gymnasiums, sports complexes, ski resorts, clubs, private gyms, squash, tennis, stadiums)

His efforts in collaborating with clients and delivering on projects have been rewarded by the awards achieved on projects TMCo have partnered on. For instance, in 2021 there were 10 award categories with TMCo projects featuring as finalists and winners in 8/10 of these categories including taking out the top awards.

BE(Mech)Hons, CPEng, GSAP, IntPE, CMEngNZ, Energyfirst Consultant, EECA Partner, NABERSNZ Accredited Assessor, APEC Engineer, Engineering NZ (IPENZ) Technical Area Assessor, SKAL