The Timaru District Council’s Wastewater Strategy has been named as one of Australia and New Zealand’s most outstanding public works engineering projects. The council was recently presented with the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA) Excellence in Water Project 2017 award for the Timaru Districtwide Wastewater...
Timaru District Council engineer Lenard Smythe presented a paper on innovative asset management for pipe infrastructure at the 2016 IPWEA NZ conference.
Renewal of aging infrastructure in New Zealand is traditionally based on an estimated remaining life value. Timaru District Council has implemented a failure-based renewal programme...
What would you change in local and central government if you had a magic wand and the power to use it? How would you realign the roles and responsibilities of both sectors on infrastructure and its funding?
Earlier this year Local Government Magazine posed a series of such questions. We know there are already a lot of initiatives...
Local Government Magazine has been hanging out with the Auckland Council family , friends from other councils, universities and other plugged-in folk at a two-day think-fest looking at how the infrastructure that council provides affects liveability for everyone in the city.
Together they generated a huge number of ideas on everything...
At the 2015 LGNZ EXCELLENCE Awards.
Air New Zealand EXCELLENCE Award for Environmental Impact.
Highly commended - Auckland Council's Wai Care Programme.
Launched in 2000, Wai Care is a collaborative water action programme run by Auckland Council to encourage citizens to form groups to monitor local waterways and...
Bruce Robertson has spent a career working with numbers. Now assistant auditor-general, local government, at the Office of the Auditor-General, he talks with Ruth Le Pla about looking behind the figures to help raise some of the big issues facing local government.
It’s a measure of Bruce Robertson’s commitment to local government...
Beca business director for water Garry Macdonald has received the 2015 Angus Award from The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ). This is the supreme technical award for engineering achievers in the field of water, waste and amenities.
It recognises Garry’s exceptional contribution to the water engineering field...
