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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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 …
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, Kevin …
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So much of the work in local government is about following legislation. Therefore, completing a task because we are told we must without questioning the intent behind the legislation. But do you think this civil service approach always results in the best outcome for the Community? I have recently been compiling old family …
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We have entered a period where vastly experienced staff are retiring. This group, the silver tsunami aka the baby boomers, are vastly experienced, disciplined, have strong work ethics with a structured approach to how they operate. They are now handing over to generations who value freedom in the workplace, embrace a …
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Tourism was number one export earner from the late nineties until 2010. Dairy then had its boom but has since dropped back with tourism moving into the number one spot over the last few years. Tourism Industry Aotearoa news article says: A new Government-commissioned report shows that the Government enjoys a net benefit of …
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Each year Waugh Infrastructure Staff take time out from our busy schedule to volunteer time to a worthy cause, and this year we chose to help the NZ Raptor Trust in Timaru. The Trust rescues and rehabilitates Raptors (NZ Harrier Hawks, Falcons, and Owls) in the Central South Island. We spent a delightful afternoon at the …
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Our team at Waugh Infrastructure enjoyed a good break over the Christmas/New Year period. 2019 has started well with our team back from leave, and having a range of interesting projects to assist clients with. We are assisting a number of clients with progressing their asset management improvement programmes throughout the 2019 …
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