Advisory
In an increasingly complex world our advisory team provides high quality strategy and technical capability to enable our clients to deliver their project needs. The guidance we offer helps to foster high quality development, sustainable outcomes and effective decision-making at a national, regional and local scale in Aotearoa.
Our advisory services span a range of practices and include expertise in:
- Providing policy advice to central and local government on core infrastructure.
- Cities – with a focus on the holistic understanding of cities and the challenges they face across the globe.
- Infrastructure development and economics – with a focus on providing robust advice to the public and private sector on essential infrastructure investment and social outcomes including assessing and refining project feasibility, options analysis, technical viability and environmental sustainability.
- Project, programme and commercial management – with a focus on providing high quality governance, programme, project controls, risk and procurement advice to complex infrastructure projects.
- Sustainability, climate change, environment and planning – with a focus on providing advice on sustainability (including Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia processes and rating, carbon accounting and reduction, and climate change initiatives), Resource Management Act processes, and environmental assessments and monitoring.
Drawing on our global reach and multidisciplinary expertise we apply international best practice to provide our clients the most up to date thinking and to ensure project success from inception to delivery.
Transport
Helping to deliver tomorrow’s transport today.
Faced with spiralling city populations and busier transport networks, the challenge of matching public expectation with day-to-day performance is increasingly important for our clients within the public and private transport environment.
Our New Zealand based engineers, transport planners and project managers have taken lead roles in Australasia’s and the world’s, highest profile infrastructure and development projects to deliver tomorrows transport infrastructure.
Our major project involvement includes the Auckland City Rail Link, Auckland Airport, the Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing, Melbourne Suburban Rail Loop, Sydney Metro City and Southwest and Hampton Roads-Bridge Tunnel in Virginia, USA.
Our transport services include aviation, bridges and civil structures, highways, rail and transit systems, ports, coastal and offshore, transport planning, tunnels and geotechnics. We’re joined up across sectors and geographies, giving you access to exceptional breadth and depth of expertise and experience across our people.
Built environment
We are the leading multidisciplinary buildings consultant in the country, with specialisms in structures, facades, building services and building sciences. Our projects range from the tallest building in New Zealand – 85 Customs Street, under construction, to the multi-billion-dollar expansion of Auckland Airport.
With a focus on aviation, metros, sports, commercial buildings, tertiary education and health, we have delivered design services for major projects. Key examples include Auckland Central Rail Stations, Auckland Stadium, Burwood Hospital Christchurch, 45 Queen Street Office Tower and the University of Auckland Science Centre.
Water
Our water team provides advisory, planning, modelling and design services across urban water, wastewater and stormwater systems, as well as dams and water resources. We offer services across New Zealand and our key strengths include water and wastewater treatment, networks and tunnel design, computational hydraulic and process modelling, flow monitoring, digital and carbon advisory and urban drainage.
Signature projects include: the design of an $80M upgrade of the Rosedale WWTP; design of the Northern Inceptor Phase 2 Tunnel; extensive wastewater flow monitoring across most of New Zealand’s cities; and our 10 year network planning and modelling relationship with Hamilton’s water network.
We’re utilising our skills in data management and analytics through our own application, Moata, on Auckland’s safe swim initiative. This application uses billions of data points from multiple sources to provide predictions around water quality and safety for the beaches across Auckland. In Christchurch City this platform has been used to monitor the effectiveness of the wastewater network to assist the rebuild project following the earthquakes of 2011.