On 1-3 May, I attended the Stormwater Conference in Auckland. The conference theme of Stormwater – The Next Generation provided a platform to introduce, explore, address and challenge the environmental impacts of communities, growth and tourism on our waterways. I was pleasantly surprised by the attendance and the content. I estimated 350 delegates with presentations […]
Suicide in the New Zealand Construction Industry – What Can We Do?
SiteSafe has just released its report on suicide in New Zealand’s construction industry. This report is the result of a study analysing 300 coroners’ closed case files of construction workers in New Zealand who died at their own hands between 2007 and 2017. This means the industry lost 300 people to suicide for over ten […]
Asset Management Plan Story Maps – Innovative Consulting with the Community
Recently one of our Team attended the Stormwater 2019 Conference in Auckland, where Damian Young from Morphum Environmental presented a ‘paper’ on Using Data-Rich, Interactive and accessible tools to support catchment Planning. As part of this paper, Damian demonstrated an example of a STORY MAP which has been created for Tasman District Council to help […]
Asset Management – Head in the Cloud with Feet on Firm Foundations
I recently attended a conference for a well-known Asset Management Software company and was very impressed to realise that in this day and age the tools available to us are amazingly clever. From a software perspective, the conference raised questions around the use of the cloud, the Internet of Things, how artificial intelligence can take […]
Is Nurturing the New Norm?
The services we provide are of immense importance to our communities. The successful delivery of these asset management consulting services relies on the combined efforts of a broad and varied team of internal and external service providers bringing together unique skills that combine to provide the required performance. In an ideal world the necessary skills […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) – What’s the Fuss
The Internet of Things (IoT) are devices like sensors or actuators that can communicate, interact and share data with each other and the outside world. This is not a new idea. Even the term, ‘Internet of Things’, is already 20 years old being thought up back in 1999 by a co-founder of MIT Auto-ID Centre, […]