New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards

NZEE Awards sponsors

Standards New Zealand

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.

Road Controlling Authorities Forum

Sponsor of Roads & Transport Category

The Road Controlling Authorities Forum (RCAF) was initiated in 1996 as a voluntary group who meet to share information, act as a sounding board on potential issues, and offer peer support and networking opportunities to the industry. The Forum also commissions working groups to report back on issues of common interest. The Forum's goals are to be the acknowledged source of industry research and development of guidelines relating to asset ownership. To achieve a nationally consistent and robust method of performance measurement which drives industry investment decisions. To be recognised by the transport industry as the primary peer support and networking forum for asset owners.

Ontrack

Sponsor of the Master of Ceremonies

ONTRACK 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. ONTRACK 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. ONTRACK 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. ONTRACK manages 19,000 hectares of land and leases associated with the rail corridor.

The IPENZ Foundation

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.

www.foundation.org.nz

Industrial Research Limited
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. We have 400 staff, including 320 scientists (half with PhDs), based in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. Activities are largely focussed 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.

The New Zealand Utilities Advisory Group
Sponsor of Utilities, Networks and Amenities Category

The New Zealand Utilities Advisory Group is a joint consultative group of network utility operators and territorial authorities, Transit New Zealand and industry bodies. The group was formed to look at issues relating to utilities in the road corridor. The result is RoadShare, a range of projects that have produced national best practice guidelines and tools for all aspects of road corridor management. These include a model partnering agreements between road controlling authorities and local utility operators, and a series of guidelines for working in the road, for planning under the RMA and for valuing utilities.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology

Sponsor of Information Communication & Technology

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is based in the UK and has its origins going back into the late 19th century. It has over 150,000 members world-wide, whose interests range from power to electronics and computer science disciplines. Its primary objective is to achieve public benefit by promoting the general advancement of engineering and technology and their applications amongst members and others. The IET is a renowned publisher of technical information and magazines. It also offers a route to an internationally recognised chartered engineer qualification.

In NZ the IET has about 1000 members with branches in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, and each maintains close links with industry and universities and holds regular local meetings.
Website: www.theiet.org or www.iee.org.nz

Auckland Airport

Sponsor of Sustainability and Clean Technology

Auckland Airport is one of New Zealand's most important infrastructural assets - it provides thousands of jobs for the region, is the country's second-largest cargo port by value and contributes around $14 billion annually to the economy. Each year over 12 million travellers are welcomed to our beautiful green country or say farewell through Auckland Airport. Because of this we are very mindful of our environmental responsibility and take it very seriously. We are continually looking at how we can be more sustainable. Earlier this year we opened a new arrivals area which boasts several green initiatives including New Zealand's largest photovoltaic solar display Beca

Sponsor of Innovator of the Year

Beca is a diverse and dynamic, multi-disciplinary consultancy services group, with over 2,000 employees worldwide.

Our success lies in the creativity of our employees, the innovations they bring and a continual drive to improve the services we offer our 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 we bring to clients.

Our range of services covers engineering, planning, project management, architecture, GIS and surveying, cost estimating, asset management and valuations. Our reach currently extends across 19 offices in 8 countries and our growth is ongoing. We are employee owned.

Our 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 we contribute to. This is recognised by our many long term clients, without whom we would not have a business.

Rob Law Maxrecruitment

Sponsor of Young Engineer of the Year

Rob Law Maxrecruitment has over 20 years experience, we are one of New Zealand’s leading specialist technical recruitment companies providing effective recruitment solutions (permanent and contract), at all levels, nationwide.

Our highly skilled team of Recruitment Consultants specialise in the sourcing of quality candidates for the Engineering, Infrastructure / Utilities, Construction / Building, Manufacturing / Process, Transportation, Building Services, Trade and Industrial Industries.

The Department of Building and Housing

Sponsor of Young Engineer of the Year

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.

These 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, BOINZ, 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

gen-i

Sponsor of Entrepreneur of the Year

gen-i integrates IT and telecommunications services to provide converged ICT solutions for clients across New Zealand and Australia. Those services are supported by people who are proud to be experts at what they do, partners who are truly world class and capabilities that set the benchmarks for the industry in their breadth, thoroughness and scale.

Schneider Electric

Sponsor of Electrical and Systems

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, offers integrated solutions making energy safer, more reliable, efficient and productive in the energy and infrastructure, industry, data centres and networks, buildings and residential markets. With sales of 17.3 billion euro in 2007, the company's 120,000 employees in 102 countries help individuals and organisations make the most of their energy.

Website link - www.schneider-electric.co.nz