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Hamish Visser

[ENG_SYS // 2026]

Turning spatial data, civil design and automation into high-performance digital tools.

Most of that is automation: FME workflows, parametric definitions and GIS systems that take something slow and manual on an infrastructure project and make it repeatable.

Explore projects Technical architecture
Base
London
Role
Digital Engineer, Taylor Woodrow, London
Status
Relocating to Melbourne // Full Australian work rights
Core
Rhino // Grasshopper // FME // ArcGIS

Selected work

All work

  1. P.01

    Year
    2024
    Org
    Aurecon
    Client
    Neoen
    Role
    Lead Geospatial Resource
    Site
    Western Victoria, Australia
    400 MWWind farm and battery hub, more than 100 turbines

    Spatial delivery // Renewable Energy

    Navarre Wind Farm

    Lead geospatial resource on a proposed 400MW wind farm and battery storage hub of more than 100 turbines in Western Victoria, covering road alignments, 2D and 3D mapping and the client geoportal, on a toolchain that made layout options fast enough to genuinely optioneer.

    • GIS
    • Geospatial Analysis
    • Terrain / Road Alignment
    • Civil 3D

  2. P.02

    Year
    2023
    Org
    Aurecon
    Client
    KiwiRail
    Role
    Digital Engineer
    Site
    Greater Wellington, New Zealand

    Spatial delivery // Rail

    Wairarapa Line Capacity Upgrades

    Hundreds of corridor cross-sections produced from the model rather than drafted, and regenerated every time the design moved, on a model-first KiwiRail level crossing programme between Upper Hutt and Masterton.

    • GIS
    • Rail Corridor Modelling
    • Automation
    • Rhino
    • Grasshopper

  3. P.03

    Year
    2025
    Org
    Taylor Woodrow
    Role
    Digital Engineer
    Site
    Enfield, London

    Automation // Highways / Infrastructure

    CAD to GIS Workflow

    The workflow that took asset delivery on a major London infrastructure scheme from several weeks to the same day. CAD drawings in; schema-compliant GIS files, a live web map and attribute-driven 3D asset models out. Runner Up in the VINCI Group Innovation Awards.

    Same dayAsset delivery on a major London scheme, from several weeks

    • GIS
    • Data Automation
    • Asset Management
    • FME
    • InfraWorks
    • ArcGIS

  4. P.04

    Year
    2026
    Org
    Taylor Woodrow
    Role
    Digital Engineer

    Computational design // Early Design / Tender

    Parametric Earthworks Modelling

    Earthworks volumes that recalculate the moment the geometry moves, benchmarked against Civil 3D, InfraWorks, OpenRoads and 12d Model. It is the only one of them that reads borehole logs and puts a number on how much rock sits above formation level before the price goes in.

    Under 30 minEarthworks volumes, from 2 to 8 hours

    • Parametric Design
    • Earthworks / Geotechnical
    • Computational Design
    • Rhino
    • Grasshopper
    • Excel

Topographic Prints

2026

16. Plates of New Zealand terrain from LINZ elevation data

Design to Unreal Engine Pipeline

2023

Under an hour. A complete Unreal Engine world from geospatial and design data

Summer Research Scholarship

2021

Robotic Fabrication, Computational Design

2.8 sTo read and validate a 462-drawing package

Drawing Checker Tool

2026

Data Automation, Quality Assurance

Engineering domains

About

I am a Digital Engineer at Taylor Woodrow in London, where I lead the GIS function within the Digital Engineering team and was appointed to Taylor Woodrow's internal Innovation Leader role. The work spans GIS and spatial data, automation in FME, computational design in Grasshopper, and BIM coordination, across highways, rail, renewables, housing and regeneration projects.

D.01

Geospatial

GIS functions, schemas, web maps and geoportals.

  • ArcGIS7 entries
  • QGIS1 entry
  • InfraWorks1 entry
  • LINZ Data Service1 entry

D.02

Civil and computational design

Parametric earthworks, corridor sections, alignments and coordination.

  • Rhino9 entries
  • Grasshopper9 entries
  • Civil 3D2 entries
  • Dynamo1 entry
  • Revit1 entry
  • Navisworks1 entry
  • Synchro 4D1 entry
  • IFC1 entry
  • Speckle2 entries

D.03

Automation and data

Pipelines and scripted workflows that remove manual effort.

  • FME9 entries
  • Excel1 entry
  • Power Automate1 entry
  • n8n1 entry
  • Google Apps Script1 entry
  • Google Sheets API2 entries
  • Postgres1 entry
  • Drizzle ORM1 entry
  • LLM1 entry

D.04

Web and 3D

Web applications, visualisation and real-time pipelines.

  • Next.js2 entries
  • React1 entry
  • Vercel2 entries
  • Blender3 entries
  • Unreal Engine1 entry
  • Marmoset Toolbag1 entry
  • Matterport1 entry

How the tools work

Every tool on the site with a definition. Point at one to see it wired up, point at a step to trace it, or run it.

Parametric Earthworks Modelling

Tools, 2026. Rhino, Grasshopper, Excel

Read the write-up

In

Parameters

Steps

Out

How to read it

Point at any node, or tab through them, to trace what feeds it and what it feeds. Run it to watch the data go through.

More work

All 40 entries

  1. A511

    BIM Coordination, GIS, 4D Sequencing    2026

  2. Official Information Request Auditor

    Workflow Automation, LLM Integration, Software Engineering    2026

  3. Pavement Quantity Tool

    Earthworks / Geotechnical, Computational Design, Quantity Take-offMinutes    2026

  4. Public Data Scrape

    GIS, Automation, LLM Integration    2026

  5. The Public Record

    Web Development, Information Design, Data Architecture    2026

  6. Automated Document Compliance

    Data Automation, Quality Assurance, Information ManagementUnder a minute    2025

  7. Meridian Water Strategic Infrastructure

    GIS, Asset Management, Information Management    2025

  8. Semi-Automated Retaining Walls

    Parametric Design, Computational Design, BIM Integration    2022

By section

  1. Work

    Digital engineering on live infrastructure. Highways, rail, renewables, housing and regeneration, across Taylor Woodrow in the UK and Aurecon in New Zealand.9 entries2021 to 2026

  2. Tools

    Things built to remove manual effort. FME pipelines, Grasshopper definitions, internal systems, and workflows that turn a week of someone's time into a process that runs in seconds.14 entries2021 to 2026

  3. Objects

    Physical work. Product design, 3D printing, robotic fabrication and the industrial design background that the computational work came out of.4 entries2020 to 2026

  4. University

    Industrial design coursework from Victoria University of Wellington, 2018 to 2020, gone back through and documented properly: what each piece was, how it worked, and what it got wrong. The background the objects work and the computational work both came out of.10 entries2018 to 2020

  5. Beyond

    Work outside the day job that is not an object. Web development, and automation built for other people's problems.3 entries2026

Recognition

With citations