Youth and Family Hub Project Team
Bryan Perrow
Project Manager
Bryan Perrow founded Perrow Consulting Group Limited in March 2002 offering a wealth of experience in the construction industry since 1987. Bryan is a qualified Engineer and worked primarily in the commercial sector of Auckland’s building industry. His experience as a Site Engineer, Quantity Surveyor and Project Manager offers a range of technical skills that are critical to a development on a time, quality and cost basis. Perrow Consulting Group specialises in Property Development by offering joint venture partnerships, feasibility studies and funding solutions. Working with most of the major trading Banks, Perrow Consulting Group can satisfy the funder with Pre-Condition and Drawdown Reporting. Having the right team on board is crucial to a development and Perrow Consulting Group utilises a pool of very experienced Planners, Architects, Engineers, Builders, Subcontractors and Suppliers. Perrow Consulting Group offer Quantity Surveying services to ensure construction budgets are tightly controlled.
Odele Habets
Currently Pastor of Albany Baptist Church and also Community Development Specialist for Albany Community Action Trust. She is a qualified physiotherapist and had her own business (O Hands) up until 4 years ago. She has also previously worked as a Clinical Supervisor, a Project Manager for community led programs, and a Clinical Teacher for AUT School of Physiotherapy. Odele has governance experience from being on the Board of Leprosy Mission NZ, spending a few years as chair and is now on the International Global Fellowship Board of the Leprosy Mission International. She is married with two teenagers and passionate about the local community to bring about sustainable change for communities to flourish – especially for all those that work, play, stay and study in Albany.
Esther Aigwi
Dr Esther Aigwi is a Civil Engineer and has a PhD from Massey University. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Built Environment Engineering at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK (FHEA), a Chartered Construction Manager (MCIOB), an Associate Investigator with Te Hiranga Rū QuakeCoRE (New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission-funded Centre for Earthquake Resilience), an Executive Committee member of the QuakeCoRE Early Career Researcher Network, and a member of Engineering New Zealand. Her research interests include seismic and urban resilience of existing buildings, adaptive reuse of historical buildings, sustainable building designs and practices, Construction Waste Management, Groundwater systems, and Performance-based decision-making frameworks. She is currently exploring the connections between her research interests and the impacts of climate change and urbanisation.
Amarachukwu "Amara" Nwadike
Dr Amarachukwu Nwadike is a Civil Engineer and holds a PhD from Massey University. He is currently a Research Assistant in the Department of Built Environment Engineering at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK (FHEA), a Chartered Construction Manager (MCIOB), and a member of Engineering New Zealand. His research interests focus on improving building codes and compliance in New Zealand, as well as sustainable building designs and practices.
Brigitta Rohr
Brigitta Rohr (66) immigrated from Switzerland to New Zealand in 1991; together with her husband Martin and their four children. She now is a grandma of eight children (6 months to 15 years of age). Her and her husband live on Whangaparaoa Peninsula.
For the last thirty-two years they have been part of Albany Baptist Church. They do not mind travelling to Albany every Sunday as this clearly is their home church. Brigitta is the Chair of Elders, leads the Prayer Ministry and engages in leading a home group.
Her original studies were in business; she fluently speaks German/English and has a good understanding of French as she worked in the French part of Switzerland for two years.
For the next 20 years, Brigitta concentrated on being a mother to her four kids, and an adopted teenager, whilst contracting out her HR/Payroll management skills. She has been holding this contract with a Civil Engineering Company since the year 2000-present.
She retrained to become a counsellor in her late forties (BA in couns.) and specialized in professional/clinical supervision (PGD in prof SV). She has been working in private practice ever since.
Brigitta is an astute, strategic thinker and a person easy to connect with. She is outgoing and a good communicator. She listens well and can think ‘outside of the box’ and loves to encourage others.
She enjoys people, walking her little Miniature Schnauzer at the beach, listening to an audio book and enjoys spending time with all their grandchildren and undertaking travels with her husband.
Sandra Chan
Sandra Chan is a final-year student at the University of Auckland, studying Commerce and Property, majoring in Commercial Law. Migrated from Hong Kong to Auckland in 2017, Sandra is fluent in Cantonese, English, Mandarin and Japanese. She was elected President for the Auckland Overseas Christian Fellowship at the University in 2023 and completed a Semester Exchange at Kyoto University in 2024. She brings with her leadership skills, knowledge and a passion to contribute and learn along with the rest of the team.
