Āpōpō
Kaihāpai / Patrons
Āpōpō Kaihāpai / Patrons
This year we are excited to introduce the term Kaihāpai / Patron to replace “corporate partners”.
A Kaihāpai is an advocate, champion, promoter, supporter, upholder, backer, campaigner, proponent.
We are also introducing two new levels of sponsorship – Gold Kaihāpai / Patron and Silver Kaihāpai / Patron.
The Āpōpō Kaihāpai / Patron support programme is:
- An exclusive offering to industry partners
- To enable industry participants to influence and actively participate in the development of the public asset management profession
- To assist highlighting the importance of asset management in public works infrastructure, by being ambassadors for asset management throughout industry
- To provide industry participants with a platform to be seen as leaders in asset management
- To ensure Āpōpō has close and mutually valuable relationships with industry
- To provide Āpōpō with ready and varied access to expertise across all public asset management disciplines.
To find out more about becoming an Āpōpō Kaihāpai, please contact Emily Liddell.
Gold Kaihāpai / Patrons
Silver Kaihāpai / Patrons
Āpōpō Gold Kaihāpai / Patrons
Āpōpō Gold Kaihāpai / Patron
Who is Beca?
Our vision is: Creative People Together Transforming Our World
Make Everyday Better – our purpose reflects our culture, our aspirations and our vision. We create value through understanding and delivering successful solutions, exceptional service and our enduring relationships and use our skills and systems to empower innovation; helping our clients shape sustainable communities, optimise their assets and streamline their operations.
Why are you an Āpōpō Kaihāpai?
The vision and mission of Āpōpō is shared by Beca, we wish to support sustainable communities, collaborate with industry through asset management excellence in the services we provide.
Beca through its leadership in public works asset management seeks to enhance the professional mana of this industry within New Zealand.
Āpōpō Gold Kaihāpai / Patron
Who is PDP?
Creative thinking and sound business acumen, helps our clients make informed and confident decisions about the important infrastructure, cultural and environmental challenges facing Aotearoa New Zealand.
We bring hands-on experience in strategy, consultation, planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance – allowing us to take a holistic view of our client’s businesses, with the understanding that whatever the issue we are solving, people are central to the decisions both we and our clients make, including boards, iwi, staff, customers, and other stakeholders.
We help our clients with a range of services including:
- Strategic asset management
- Climate adaptation & resilience
- Māori and cultural advisory
- Master planning
- Infrastructure investment optimisation
- Change management
- Custom digital solutions
- Organisational capacity building
Why are you an Āpōpō Kaihāpai?
PDP and Āpōpō share a common goal for creating sustainable outcomes for our communities, through strategic advice, creative thinking, and innovation.
Our partnership with Āpōpō is an opportunity for us to be at the forefront of asset management, work collaboratively with other organisations and contribute to a better future.
Āpōpō Gold Kaihāpai / Patron
Who is Stantec?
Communities are fundamental. Whether around the corner or across the globe, they provide a foundation, a sense of place and of belonging. That’s why at Stantec, we always design with community in mind.
We care about the communities we serve—because they’re our communities too. We’re designers, engineers, scientists, and project managers, innovating together at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. Balancing these priorities results in projects that advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN. Visit us at stantec.com or find us on social media.
Why are you an Āpōpō Kaihāpai?
Our partnership with Āpōpō embodies one of our core beliefs at Stantec—we’re better together. Bolstered by our shared values and aims, the opportunities for professional development and shared expertise are invaluable as we and our industry continue to evolve.
Like Āpōpō, we envision innovative, sustainable solutions that build strength within our communities and environment. At Stantec, our multidisciplinary global team brings international learnings and best practice that help us achieve this goal in New Zealand.
Āpōpō Gold Kaihāpai / Patron
Who is Tonkin + Taylor?
Tonkin + Taylor is an award-winning, environmental and engineering consultancy. Founded in 1959, we have a rich history of technical excellence specialising in geotechnical, civil, and water resources engineering, environmental science, and resource management.
Tonkin + Taylor has evolved from a small New Zealand-based company into an industry leading, employee-owned and operated multi-disciplinary group of consultants, with offices across New Zealand and Australia.
We deliver innovative solutions across five continents through our global partnership with the Inogen Alliance to create and sustain a better world.
Why are you an Āpōpō Kaihāpai?
Asset management is strategically important to New Zealand’s longterm future. We are Kaihāpai/patrons of Āpōpō because of their role as the peak body leading asset management in New Zealand. We are committed to creating and sustaining a better world together and this is a practical way to support that vision for us all.
Principal, Infrastructure Advisory
Āpōpō Gold Kaihāpai / Patron
Who is Waugh Infrastructure?
Waugh Infrastructure Management is a management consulting company that assists governments, councils and municipalities with the full range of infrastructure asset management planning services across the strategic, tactical and operational areas of infrastructure management.
Our focus is to help leave future generations a much better world than the one we have inherited by serving communities through the practice of infrastructure management.
We are experts in providing infrastructure management services to government authorities (including local and municipal government), public and utility services clients.
Our infrastructure management specialists have wide domain expertise. We work across infrastructure types, and have completed a broad range of New Zealand and international assignments.
Why are you an Āpōpō Kaihāpai?
Waugh Infrastructure Management has supported the work and mission of Āpōpō over the past 20 years+.
Becoming an Āpōpō Kaihāpai allows us to continue to and increase our support Āpōpō as our profession looks to meet the infrastructure challenges and opportunities of the coming decades.
Āpōpō Gold Kaihāpai / Patron
Who is WSP?
We’re proud of the unique value we bring to our clients at WSP. With unrivalled local knowledge harnessed from 150 years of pioneering the important infrastructure and environments of New Zealand.
We believe that for societies to thrive, we must all hold ourselves accountable for tomorrow. That means creating innovative solutions for the challenges of the future. It’s this mindset that inspires us to stay curious, act locally, and think internationally.
We develop creative, comprehensive and sustainable engineering solutions for a future where society can thrive. Equipped with an intimate understanding of local intricacies, world-class talent and proactive leadership, we plan, design, manage and engineer long lasting and impactful solutions to uniquely complex problems.
Why are you an Āpōpō Kaihāpai?
Working together with our clients and partners, collaboratively.
Āpōpō Silver Kaihāpai / Patrons
Āpōpō Silver Kaihāpai / Patron
Who is AECOM?
Our vision is a world where infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone – uplifting communities, improving access and sustaining our planet.
We bring together the best people, ideas and technical expertise and partner with clients to turn their ambitions into action.
We offer full global, multi-discipline, cross sector engineering, planning, programme and project management, cost management and advisory services. Advisory services include:
- Asset Management Advisory
- Risk Management Advisory
- Sustainability and Resilience Advisory
- Business Case Development
- Programme Management Advisory
- Cost Management and Procurement Advisory
Why are you an Āpōpō partner?
Infrastructure underpins the wellbeing of our communities and economy. Āpōpō, with the support of its Partners, is the leading industry-based organisation to help our public entities best plan, provide and manage this infrastructure.
The Partner Programme enables cross-organisational collaboration and the framework to continuously drive innovation, thought leadership and excellence.
Āpōpō Silver Kaihāpai / Patron
Who is Morrison Low?
Morrison Low offers strategic asset management, procurement, waste management, organisational review, three waters reform, programme reviews, central government, strategic planning, business cases, housing, transportation, financial consulting, facilities management, long term plans, open space management, commercial.
Why are you an Āpōpō Kaihāpai?
Morrison Low aims and continues to be a at the forefront in providing strategic advice to our local and central government clients that is considered industry best practice.
We are actively involved with industry leadership roles and providing thought leadership.
Āpōpō Silver Kaihāpai / Patron
Who is SPM Assets?
SPM specialise in asset management planning for built assets, helping asset intensive organisations make better decisions about where to focus their attention and investment, in order to achieve their strategic outcomes.
Our cloud-based software and team of asset management experts help organisations to achieve compliance, reduce risk, prioritise projects, and deliver cost savings.
Why are you an Āpōpō Kaihāpai?
As a long-time NAMS Partner our objective is to have continuous, open and meaningful collaboration with other industry leaders.
Collectively we want to raise the bar in terms of how asset management is practiced, so that asset related decisions made today are sustainable tomorrow.
+ 64 21 775 802
Āpōpō Silver Kaihāpai / Patron
Who is Thinkproject?
Our vision: To be a leader in asset management, helping the industry to manage assets efficiently and sustainably for the benefit of future generations.
Our focus: To unlock the potential of people and information through digital technologies, enabling better industry results.
Services available:
- Software development
- Consultancy
- Data migration
- Implementation
- Training
Why are you an Āpōpō Kaihāpai?
We’re partnering with Āpōpō to support and promote industry best practice and our shared commitment to excellence in asset management.
Through innovative digital technologies, we’re transforming asset management by shifting from static, textual datasets to dynamic, data-rich solutions with the application of 2D, 3D and 4D visualisation principles.
Āpōpō Silver Kaihāpai / Patron
Who is Wynn Williams?
Wynn Williams is a full-service law firm, with offices in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Ōtautahi Christchurch and Tāhuna Queenstown. We have an impressive team of experienced and talented lawyers delivering results for local government clients, corporates, businesses, institutions and individuals, here in Aotearoa New Zealand and further afield.
We’re recognised by clients and peers alike for our expertise in local government and environmental law, litigation and dispute resolution, corporate advisory and transactions, and for our specialist insurance, property, construction and employment capability. We consistently rank in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific and Global independent legal directories.
We’re incredibly proud of our heritage – having been around since 1859 – and of the kind of honesty, experience and astute guidance we provide our clients.
Why are you an Āpōpō Kaihāpai?
We have worked with Āpōpō for many years, so were excited to join as a Silver Kaihāpai earlier this year. We share Āpōpō’s vision of connecting and supporting communities, through professionalism and integrity, and we’re looking forward to strengthening our relationship with both Āpōpō and the asset management industry.
Āpōpō Partner: Aurecon
Who is Aurecon?
Aurecon is a design, engineering and advisory company that brings ideas to life to create a better future for people and the planet.
Our experience, knowledge and data sets allow us to provide an independent and validated perspective to our clients’ organisations. Our cross-functional team enables us to work at all levels, appreciating that sustainable change does not just come from the top. Our commercial lens, combined with our engineering backbone, enables us to ensure our clients’ decisions are about a better business, not just a better asset. We operate across the entire asset lifecycle, enabling us to bridge technical outcomes with business requirements.
We serve our clients across a range of markets and international locations. Hardwired in our DNA are engineering, design and the deep need to leave a legacy. Our asset management advisory services are based around the need to balance risk, cost and performance to realise a sustainable future:
- Asset management strategy
- Risk advisory
- Procurement advisory
- Operations performance & assurance
- Asset assurance
- Sustainability and climate change
Why are you an Āpōpō partner?
Aotearoa New Zealand is more interconnected, complex and dynamic than any stage in our history.
Our long-term economic, social, cultural and environmental wellbeing is underpinned by uplifting infrastructure asset performance.
Aurecon, through this partnership with Āpōpō, will support organisations to navigate this complexity and make the right decisions in how they manage their assets today, and to meet the needs of future generations.
