Dunedin Hui Branch Event
NZ$0.00 excl GST
9 December 2025 - 10 December 2025
Otago Polytechnic, T-Block, Fourth Street Campus
Theme: Learning across industries
Sharing the diversity of asset management industries. Facilities, property, transport hubs (air and water), power and community. Learn about solutions with new wave asset management professionals completing their asset management suite of courses.
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Thanks to event sponsors:
^Photos of last years Dunedin Hui
Why attend this event?
This is an exciting mini-conference offered together by Otago Polytechnic, Engineering NZ and Āpōpō. Together we have organised a day of presentations, workshops and networking opportunities, and a half day of site tours (optional).
These sessions are designed to deliver output-focused learning through engagement with our lecturing team and guest industry experts, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of best practices and innovations in the field. With the opportunity to deepen their expertise and apply their knowledge through dynamic, real world experience sharing from our industry experts and leaders.
This event welcomes industry professionals in engineering and asset management, along with Otago Polytechnic students, to come together to share their experiences, challenges and successes, network, and learn from each other.
Presentations include:
- Dunedin Airport, Nick Rodger
- IDS, Gemma Mathieson
- Dry Milk Plant and resilience Planning, Oceania Dairy
- Consistent condition data collection (CCDC) project, Dunedin City Council
- In-work asset management student show case, sharing their industry and learning journey
Student presenters include:
- Eden Maher, Waitaki DC
- Kim Donnelly, Hauraki DC
- Pierre Kotze, Clutha DC
- Greta Campbell, Clutha DC
- Tomasi Coriakula, Powernet
- Lionel Visser, Port Nelson
- Jonathon Brandon, PN Hospital
- Todd Dallard, Invercargill Airport
- Benaiah Mascerina, Aurora
- Ian Harrington, Oceania Dairies
Agenda
Tuesday 9 December – Full day of presentations
| Time | Presentation title/topic | Presenter details |
| 8.30 | Doors open! | |
| 9:00 | Presentations start
Karakia, intro, health and safety, venue details Ice breaker – table intro’s |
Sarah Hexamer, Otago Polytechnic |
| Otago Polytech insight | Tony Green, Otago Polytechnic | |
| 9.40 | Āpōpō and Engineering NZ welcome
|
Michelle Bong, Engineering NZ
Mark Baker, Āpōpō Branch Chair |
| 9.50 | Dunedin Airport update | Nick Rodger |
| 10.20 | Student presentations
Q&A |
Sarah Hexamer |
| 11.00 | Networking break | Food in atrium downstairs (Café open for those who want a ‘proper’ coffee) |
| 12.00 | Consistent condition data collection (CCDC) project | Peter Tomlinson, Dunedin City Council |
| 12.30 | Dry Milk Plant and resilience planning, Oceania Dairy | Ian Harrington, Oceania Dairies |
| 12.45 | IDS | Gemma Mathieson, IDS |
| 13.00 | Student presentations x 3
Q&A |
Gemma to introduce students |
| 13.40 | Āpōpō Update | Emily Liddell, Member Engagement Manager |
| 14.00 | 2-3pm Snacks/drink networking break
|
Briefing for those attending site tours |
| 15.00 | ISP project | Heinz Jacobs, Engineering Services Team Leader 3 WATERS, Dunedin City Council |
| 15.30 | Student presentations
Q&A |
|
| 16.10 | Workshop session | Mark Baker, Āpōpō Branch Chair |
| 17.00 | Closing Karakia |
18.00 Optional: Self-funded dinner at Emersons Brewery
WEDNESDAY 10 December – Site tours [Optional]
Please wear PPE for the site tours, including hi-vis vest, steel cap or at least closed-toe shoes, long trousers, hard hat and eye protection. Bring a jacket just in case it rains. Please bring your own snacks and water for the site tours.
- 9.00 meet at the KiwiRail Hillside Workshop
- 30min to get to the Quarry to allow for toilet and food breaks
- 11.00 Logan Point Quarry, operated by Blackhead Quarries Ltd
- 30min to get to the Quarry to allow for toilet and food breaks
- 13.00 Ross Creek Earth Dam renewals programme
14.00 Close of industry event
This event is brought to you by Mark Baker, Āpōpō Otago/Southland Branch Chair, Mark.baker@morphum.com
We are still looking for sponsors for this event, for just $250 you can have your logo added to the promotion of this event. Contact emily.liddell@apopo.co.nz if you want to know more.
5 available
Description
Site Tours
Please wear PPE for the site tours, including hi-vis vest, steel cap or at least closed-toe shoes, long trousers, hard hat and eye protection. Please also bring your own water, food and snacks. The agenda does allow for food and toilet breaks between each destination.
KiwiRail’s Hillside Railway Workshops
Hillside Workshops in South Dunedin has undergone a major reconstruction, giving a new lease of life to a site that has an important place in NZ’s rail heritage.
The new mechanical workshop is being used for the domestic assembly of new wagons, along with the maintenance, repair and overhaul of locomotives and wagons, and projects to support our mainland operations.
Network and mechanical engineers previously based at KiwiRail’s current Strathallan and Cumberland Street sites have moved into new staff facilities at Hillside. More than 100 staff are working at the facility.
Read more about the Hillside Railway Workshops here.
Logan Point Quarry
Logan Point Quarry, operated by Blackhead Quarries Ltd, is a prominent source of high-quality basalt aggregate located close to the heart of Dunedin. Supplying essential materials for construction, roading, and landscaping since the 1860s, the quarry is committed to environmental management and community engagement while continuing its long tradition of supporting infrastructure development in Otago.
Ross Creek Reservoir
Built in 1867, Ross Creek is one of New Zealand’s first major urban water supplies, and one that still serves Dunedin city today.
You can read more about this historic site and functioning reservoir here.
Event Details
Event Details
Start date: 9 December 2025
End date: 10 December 2025
Start time: 09:30 a.m.
End time: 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Otago Polytechnic, T-Block, Fourth Street Campus
