Standards New Zealand
Sponsor of the Supreme Award
Standards New Zealand's vision is to be recognised as New Zealand's leader in creating value through standardisation. Applying Standards to support standardisation advances innovation, protects the public, boosts trade, supports lighter and higher-quality regulation, increases productivity and efficiency, and generates economic prosperity.
Our Standards process gives stakeholders a 'voice' in helping to define best practice for New Zealand. We work with regulators, research and educational organisations, industry bodies, professional associations, and consumer advocates to promote the value of well-crafted, widely-used Standards solutions. The core strengths of our organisation include project management, facilitation, consensus-building skills, and publishing.
Industrial Research Limited
Sponsor of the Mechanical and Manufacturing Award
Industrial Research Ltd (IRL) provides research, science and advanced technology support to industry to enhance performance and add value to the New Zealand economy. Core to the company is innovation based on world-class science and engineering.
IRL research serves a range of sectors with an emphasis on the manufacturing, processing, biopharmaceuticals, medical and energy industries.
IRL’s services include research and development; pilot-scale production; consultancy; commercialisation of technology; testing and calibration; and sales and licensing. Its clientele ranges from small companies with bright ideas to some of the largest New Zealand companies needing support to succeed in the highly competitive international marketplace.
AECOM
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.
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.
URS New Zealand
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.
Schneider Electric
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.
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NZ Transport Agency
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 sys
tem for New Zealanders.
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Beca
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.
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KiwiRail
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. Back to top
Meridian Energy
Sponsor of Sustainability and Clean Technology
Meridian is New Zealand's largest electricity generator and generates entirely from renewable resources. Meridian currently owns and operates (from June 1, 2011) seven hydro stations, four wind farms within New Zealand, and one wind farm in Australia. Internationally, Meridian has operations in Sydney Australia and San Francisco, California.
Meridian also retails electricity to around 188,000 customers throughout New Zealand, which includes households, farms and businesses. It also provides electricity to New Zealand's single largest electricity user, the Rio Tinto Alcan New Zealand Limited aluminium smelter in Bluff.
Meridian invests strongly in renewable energy development and has over 1,500 megawatts of Australasian development opportunities in the development pipeline
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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 Limited provides water and wastewater services to around 1.3 million people in the Auckland region. Each day, the company supplies around 380m litres of drinking water and treats around 350m litres of wastewater and trade waste. Watercare is wholly owned by the Auckland Council, with annual revenue of $460m and assets of $7.5 billion.
Electricity Engineers’ Association
The Electricity Engineers' Association (EEA) is an independent association representing engineers and technical staff working in the electricity supply industry. The Association has over 350 individual members and 35 corporate members representing electricity generation, transmission and distribution networks, contracting, consulting and equipment suppliers in our industry.
The EEA fulfils a number of roles for its members and industry by: providing leadership, advocacy, education and information on issues affecting engineering, technical and safety performance in the electricity supply industry; facilitating and co-ordinating professional development and learning opportunities for members and the wider industry; developing, maintaining and supporting national and international Standards, guidelines and best practice documents which support innovation and engineering, technical and safety excellence within the industry; and providing independent fora to debate engineering, technical and safety issues affecting the industry.