Steve Abley

Steve Abley entered the workforce in 1988 and gained an engineering technology qualification through practical work and extramural study before completing an honours civil-engineering degree at Canterbury. He worked for consultants and constructors in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He became a fellow of Engineering New Zealand in 2011 and received its MacLean Citation in 2015. His leadership at Abley combines transport engineering, spatial technology and consultancy management.

Steve Abley’s 1996 university project mapping Christchurch pedestrian crossings formed the starting point for the later transport and spatial consultancy.

Abley’s company history records the firm’s starting point: Steve Abley mapped Christchurch City pedestrian crossings for a final-year university project in 1996, then established a transport consultancy in 2003. The firm’s development joined spatial analysis with transport engineering and road-safety work.