Nield has directed major relief and reconstruction work in Aceh, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and Victoria, Australia after natural disasters.
She was the Australian Institute of Architects (NT) Creative Director for AusIndoArch Tropfix Student Design Workshop held in June 2014 and the AusIndoArch Conference in Darwin November 2014, Australia.
EAA is associated with the French emergency architecture agency Architectes de l'urgence Foundation.
In the Solomon Islands, Nield raised the funds and organised the team to rebuild Ngari School[5] with the local community – a prototype school to be repeated in other locations by the Solomon Islands Department of Education.
Nield led the EAA team along with BVN Architecture that planned the Temporary Village in Kinglake, Victoria after the Black Saturday bushfires and initiated the rebuilding of the award-winning Narbethong Community Hall.