Katie Symons

Katie Symons is Principal Advisor, Engineering, in MBIE’s Building System Performance Branch. She has lead the technical side of MBIE’s work to reduce whole-of-life embodied carbon emissions, including the development of the whole-of-life embodied carbon framework (published in 2020) and technical methodology (published in 2022).

Katie is a chartered professional structural engineer in New Zealand and the UK, and has over 15 years’ experience designing building structures in both countries. She has particular expertise in assessing the embodied carbon of buildings and construction materials. She is the author of a number of academic papers on the subject and also wrote the New Zealand wood design guide on timber, carbon and the environment.