NZEE Awards' Sponsors
Sponsor of the Supreme Award
As New Zealand's leading Standards developer, Standards New Zealand is driven by one overriding goal to – contribute towards the overall public good of New Zealanders. That is, to ensure New Zealanders are safer, healthier, more prosperous and that their lives are more convenient.
Standards help by making life simpler and safer and increasing the effectiveness and reliability of many goods and services used every day. Standards New Zealand's core strengths are project management, facilitation and consensus-building skills. Partnership is fundamental to the development of Standards and Standards New Zealand works with a range of public- and private-sector organisations, professional associations and industry groups to develop effective Standards and standards-based solutions.
Standards New Zealand is increasingly working across diverse subject areas, with Standards in health and disability, building, engineering, sport and recreation, energy efficiency, fire safety, and fertility services to name a few.
Sponsor of the Master of Ceremonies
KiwiRail owns, maintains and manages the New Zealand rail network on behalf of the government, following the purchase of the network by the government from Toll NZ Consolidated Limited in September 2004. KiwiRail provides New Zealand rail operators with safe and controlled access to the national rail network. Operators include Toll NZ, Auckland local authorities who control the Auckland commuter rail business (operated on their behalf by Veolia) and heritage rail operators. KiwiRail maintains, renews and upgrades the rail network, provides advice on rail and related matters to the Crown and provides public-good services such as public education programmes and infrastructure improvement for level crossing safety. KiwiRail manages 19,000 hectares of land and leases associated with the rail corridor.
Sponsor of the William Pickering Award for Engineering Leadership
Sponsor of the Award for Excellence in Engineering Journalism
The IPENZ Foundation looks after the promotion of the engineering profession. Specific areas of the IPENZ Foundation's work are:
- profile – finding ways to promote the engineering profession
- careers – providing scholarships with a view to encouraging secondary school students to choose careers in professional engineering
- heritage – sponsoring a range of bronze plaques for significant engineering projects around New Zealand
- research – undertaking this when appropriate
- rehabilitation – assisting IPENZ members in financial difficulty.
Sponsor of the New Zealand Young Engineer of the Year Award
URS New Zealand is a professional services company providing engineering and environmental expertise to people and projects in communities and business across New Zealand, Asia Pacific and in other parts of the world.
A team of 250 staff based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch is dedicated to working with clients to provide technically excellent, cost-effective, innovative and environmentally sustainable solutions tailored to their specific needs.
We are engineers, planners, environmental scientists, project managers and risk managers. Together we form a strong multi-disciplinary team bringing knowledge, talent, innovation, experience and passion to what we do.
Sponsor of Mechanical and Manufacturing
Industrial Research is a government-owned research company that takes world-class science through to globally competitive, market-viable technology in partnership with industry. It has 400 staff, including 320 scientists (half with PhDs), based in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. Activities are largely focused around the manufacturing and processing sectors, and expertise includes pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical development, fine chemicals, functional foods, process engineering, information and communication technologies, mathematics nanotechnology, energy and materials research.
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Sponsor of Sustainability and Clean Technology
Meridian is the largest state-owned electricity generator in New Zealand, supplying electricity to the largest customer, the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter and over 180,000 residential, business and rural customers throughout our country.
Our electricity is generated entirely from renewable resources. Meridian is proud to be New Zealand’s only supplier of carboNZero-certified electricity. As a state-owned enterprise, we are owned by New Zealanders for New Zealanders.
Sponsor of New Zealand Engineering Innovator of the Year
Beca is a diverse and dynamic, multi-disciplinary consultancy services group, with over 2,400 employees worldwide.
Beca's success lies in the creativity of its employees, the innovations they bring and a continual drive to improve the services it offers its clients. Beca people are encouraged and challenged to be innovative in their daily work, thereby making a vital contribution to our sustainability and increasing the value it brings to clients.
Beca's range of services covers engineering, planning, project management, architecture, geographic information systems and surveying, cost estimating, asset management and valuations. Beca's reach currently extends across 17 offices in 7 countries and its growth is ongoing. Beca is employee owned.
Beca's technical excellence is complemented by highly valued alliances with other world-leading specialists and continues to be challenged and extended by the range of projects to which it contributes. This is recognised by Beca's many long-term clients, without whom it would not have a business.
The Department of Building and Housing
Sponsor of Building and Construction
The Department of Building and Housing has responsibilities covering all aspects of buildings and their use, from design and construction through to living and renting.
The New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards are among numerous sponsorships it undertakes to support its business activities.
It also contributes to the Registered Master Builders Apprentice of the Year competition and supports conferences for the likes of the Property Investors’ Federation, Real Estate Institute, Architecture Design New Zealand, Building Officials Institute of New Zealand, and local government.
Its aim in sponsoring is to promote better professional behaviours, skills and standards across the sector, and better awareness and understanding of building and housing issues.
Sponsor of Water, Waste and Amenities
Watercare Services is the bulk water and wastewater service provider for the Greater Auckland area of New Zealand.
The company draws the water from 12 sources, treats it to A-grade quality and supplies it to six local network operators that retail it to more than 1.2 million consumers.
Watercare operates a regional wastewater network, receiving wastewater from Metrowater (Auckland City), Manukau Water, Waitakere City Council and United Water (Papakura District) and treats it at the Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The company is owned by the city and district councils of Auckland, Manukau, Waitakere, North Shore, Papakura and Rodney.
Sponsor of New Zealand Engineering Entrepreneur of the Year
AECOM is a global provider of professional technical and management support services to a broad range of markets, including transportation, facilities, environmental and energy. AECOM applies the expertise and commitment of its engineers, architects, business advisors, planners, economists, scientists and managers to ensure its performance is industry leading. AECOM has been operating for 90 years in New Zealand (previously as Maunsell and Worley Consultants) and has some 400 staff spread across five major offices: Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington and Christchurch.
With 43,000 employees around the world, AECOM has the capability to rapidly mobilise world leading teams to almost anywhere in the world.
A Fortune 500 company, AECOM serves clients in more than 100 countries and had revenue of $5.9 billion during the 12-month period ended March 31, 2008. More information on AECOM and its services can be found at www.aecom.com
Sponsor of the Awards' Gala Dinner
Schneider Electric is the global specialist in energy management. It offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments including leadership positions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation and data centres/networks as well as a broad presence in residential applications. Schneider Electic is an energy optimist. Around the world, the broad range of Schneider Electric solutions provides reliable supply, monitors and protects electrical installations, and ensures safety. Schneider Electric solutions give priority to the availability of equipment and its integration into the electrical networks, thus guaranteeing the control of investment costs, the optimisation of operating costs and the improvement of productivity. Schneider Electric helps you to make the most of your energy.
Sponsor of Transportation Infrastructure
The NZ Transport Agency's (NZTA) job is to help New Zealanders travel reliably and safely and to grow the country’s economy by investing in moving people and freight. The NZTA plans and delivers national transport networks and supports local networks; it works to make public transport and freight networks more effective – improving road safety.
It’s all about building a better transport system for New Zealanders.
Sponsor of Information, Communication, Electrical and Electronic Technology
AJ Park is New Zealand’s leading intellectual property firm. They have a specialised team of patents experts who understand information, communication, electrical and electronic technologies.
They help clients to acquire, exploit and protect intellectual property rights across a broad range of technologies including electrical engineering, industrial and medical electronics, communications, imaging systems, devices, and electrical physics.
AJ Park can help you make the right decisions about your intellectual property to maximise your competitive advantage locally and around the world.
Visit www.ajpark.com to find out how they can help your business.
The New Zealand Information and Communications Technology Group
The New Zealand Information and Communications Technology Group (NZICT Group) was created to position information technology as the key ingredient to New Zealand’s development and competitiveness. It promotes the industry’s growth by taking a leadership role on behalf of its members and related forums and communities of interest. This approach is about creating a cohesive industry and actively encouraging collaboration to grow the industry, but as importantly, New Zealand’s productivity and economic growth.
NZICT Group represents the supply side of the industry: software, hardware, services, networks, education and training.
The NZICT Group was formed in December 2008 to give the industry the collective voice it needs.