“I had no idea this was so cool” Most of us in the infrastructure industry has an intrinsic understanding of the extraordinary value our services make to our communities. We can visualise a society without them or even one where they work less well – and we don’t like the look of that type of society at …
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A 14-year-old girl had a dream! That was to see a pontoon in Caroline Bay as a free and fun swimming alternative to the bay’s blocked off jetty, which had become too dangerous to walk on. After Roshean O’Connor approached the Timaru District Council that did not progress the idea, her request inspired a host of South …
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One Friday afternoon, the Waugh Team had a very interesting and enjoyable session on road safety. We played the slot car race at the same time learning more about safety on the road. The Road Safety Session was held on 14th June at the Waugh Infrastructure conference room. Road Safety Coordinator, Daniel Naudé was the resource …
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Ross Waugh, along with the paper, presented the keynote, "The Criticality of People in the Sustainability of Infrastructure Management Service Delivery in New Zealand" at the IPWEA NZ Conference on 27th June 2019. The IPWEA NZ Conference 2019 was held in the TSB Arena and Auditorium (Shed 6) at the Wellington Waterfront. Ross' …
Waugh Infrastructure Management Limited is opening its Hawke's Bay office in Hastings in mid-July. We welcome David James, who will be based there. David has 25 years of experience in water services management and project delivery. He has comprehensive skills and in-depth knowledge of the local government water services business. …
In May 2019, Ross Waugh held a lecture at the University of Auckland. He talked about Asset Management Planning and Demand Management. Inframanage.com has published the lecture recording into two parts, asset management planning, and demand management. In his lecture, Ross presented significant information and robust discussions …
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Waugh Infrastructure Management has welcomed Jonan Castillon, the new staff member in the Timaru office. Jonan started on 21st May 2019. For the past six years, Jonan had been supporting the Director, Ross Waugh in the development and managing the website of Waugh Infrastructure Management and the Inframanage.com project as a …
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The May 2019 WIOG “Building Resilience” Conference was an opportunity to return to my previous work life. Although my wastewater operator’s ticket, like my hair, has long receded it was refreshing to return to the front line with a group of water and wastewater operators whom I have had the pleasure of working with on a day to …
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Our Operators provide a vital service in the safe, efficient and effective provision of services to our Communities. They are responsible for the day-to-day operation of vast, complex treatment and reticulation networks, many of which are aged with configuration, function and design less well understood due to the loss of …
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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 …
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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 …
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One of our team members 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 …
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I recently attended a conference for a well-known Asset Management Software company. I was very impressed to realise that the tools available to us are amazingly clever in this day and age. From a software perspective, the conference raised questions around the use of the cloud, the Internet of Things, and how artificial intelligence …
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