The Changing Landscape of Development - Land Development Engineering Forum 2022

The LDEG Forum took place from 17-18 November 2022 in Tauranga.

The ever changing procurement and resourcing market are adding to the complexities of our industry, creating an uncertain future for councils and developers. How will our landscape look in six months? A year? Five years?

We need to address the challenges of historical infrastructure under investment, significant demand on our infrastructure, ongoing population growth and communities grappling with climate change. This forum will discuss these issues and prompt delegates to be mindful of how to approach our changing landscape of development.

17 - 18 November 2022

Trinity Wharf, Tauranga

The LDEG Forum measured and offset the emissions caused by the forum.

Thank you to our Platinum Sponsor Stormwater 360!

The following schedule is subject to change. All changes will be updated on the website.

Thursday 17 November 2022

8.30am

Registration Opens

8.50am

Welcome | Mihi

9.10am

LDEG Chairperson’s Address – Kelly LaValley

9.30am

The changing landscape of land development and the challenges we face because of it, Stephen Selwood, Tauranga City Council

10.00am

Transitioning asset management through Three Waters reform – Emily Botje, Asset Management Lead, Three Waters Reform

10.30am

Morning Tea

11.00am

Intensification and the challenges it presents around infrastructure and planning, Claudia Helberg & Janine Speedy, Tauranga City Council

11.35am

Changing how Tauranga’s streets are designed, Natalie Rooseboom & Sarah Dove

12.00pm

Safe might be safe but it’s not always sound! Anticipating resource management reform, Alice Balme, Wynn Williams

12.30pm

Lunch sponsored by Stormwater 360

13.00pm

The real ‘Dirt’ on Land Development, Mike Speed, Bay Civil Limited

14.00pm

The Sands CDC – engineered for success – a developer’s perspective, Bryan Perring, Kaitiaki Property Services

14:30pm

Working with the land and natural hazards – the need to accept some inconvenience, Marianne O’Halloran, Ice Geo

15.00pm

Afternoon Tea

15.30pm

Land Development and Subdivision Infrastructure, Kelly LaValley

15.45pm

Panel: Development During Changing Times

16.45pm

Wrap-up & recap

17.00pm

Drinks & Nibbles

Friday 18 November 2022

08.45am

Site Visit – Bus departs Trinity Wharf at 8.45am

Site Visit Details to be confirmed

The Site Visit on Friday 18 November 2022 will be finished by 2.30pm. The bus will return via the Airport, for anyone who is arranging flights that afternoon.

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Speakers

The changing landscape of land development and the challenges we face because of it

Stephen Selwood, Tauranga City Council

About Stephen

Stephen Selwood is a professional director and an expert in infrastructure vision, strategy and policy.

In addition to his role as a Commissioner for Tauranga City Council Stephen provides public policy advice to the infrastructure sector as a director of Selwood Infrastructure Advisory; and is managing director of Rapt Ltd an online and bricks and mortar retail gift, decor and fashion business based in Auckland.

In his former roles as founding Chief Executive of Infrastructure New Zealand and member of the Board of the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission – Te Waihanga, Stephen demonstrated a proven record of leading and influencing policy at both a Government and industry level. This included galvanising support from disparate public and private sector parties into a common vision centred on national benefit.

In 2019, he received the Infrastructure New Zealand leadership award for his contribution to the industry in New Zealand.

Stephen describes himself as a thought-leader and an agent for positive change, who will bring a deep understanding of integrated urban development and infrastructure planning, funding and delivery to his city governance role.

Intensification and the challenges it presents around infrastructure and planning

Claudia Helberg & Janine Speedy, Tauranga City Council

About Claudia & Janine

Janine leads the policy planning team and oversees the Tauranga City Plan at Tauranga City Council with extensive experience and knowledge working with Resource Management policy in New Zealand and Australia.

Presentation

Janine’s team are currently involved in intensification projects across Tauranga City to assist in addressing the current growth pressures and enable more housing choice to meet our changing demands. In the presentation, Janine will share the challenges to deliver a more compact city, create liveable neighbourhoods and plan for infrastructure.

Changing how Tauranga's streets are designed

Natalie Rooseboom & Sarah Dove

About Natalie & Sarah

Natalie is Tauranga City Council’s Manager for Asset Services and looks after teams that cross over the entire lifecycle of assets. These teams include infrastructure development code, land development engineers, and monitoring advisors who focus on the detail, design and construction phase of assets, and the asset information and planning teams that support activities in operation, maintenance and renewal planning.

Natalie is a civil engineer with more than 20 years local and international experience and with a master’s degree in engineering studies, specialising in sustainability, from Auckland University.

Sarah worked on the Tauranga Street Design Guide project during her previous role, and is now championing utilising the Guide and Tool within TCC on a variety of transportation projects.

Presentation

How do we go about ensuring the future streetscapes of one of New Zealand’s fastest growing cities meet the needs of people now and in the future?

In Tauranga the Infrastructure Development Code (IDC) defines how streets are designed. Historically this has been a ‘standards’ focused process which lacked the ability for ingenuity. Tauranga City Council wanted to ensure new streets, and street upgrades, could be designed in a way that allowed streets to have more of a place function rather than being focused on vehicle movement. It was also important to, allow developers/ street designers to have the flexibility to design streets in a way that they wanted, whilst still achieving TCC’s outcomes.

Our presentation will explain how the project team achieved this and what were the challenges and trade-offs they experienced along the way.

Safe might be safe but it's not always sound! Anticipating resource management reform

Alice Balme, Wynn Williams

About Alice

Alice is a partner in Wynn Williams’ Environment + Planning team, specialising in resource management and local government law. With extensive knowledge of both environmental management and local government processes, Alice is regularly engaged to advise clients on contentious resource consent and district plan matters. She is frequently sought out to assist with consenting infrastructure projects – working with project teams from the inception of an idea through to project delivery.

Presentation

Reform of the Resource Management Act has long been anticipated by all involved in land development, not least of all those charged with the responsibility of servicing these communities 30 or 40 years into the future. Those expecting reform will deliver a single silver bullet that provides certainty to move forward with confidence are sadly mistaken. What you can be confident of is a cascade of transformative and systemic change involving not just the RMA but three waters and local government reform. In 12 months’ time, everything could be different – but how is virtually impossible to anticipate. The obvious question then becomes how do we continue our BAU in the absence of clear, cohesive and prescriptive guidance? Answer – play it safe and rely on what we know to stand us in good stead. Perhaps the better question is what can we be doing to ensure we’re able to successfully ride the wave of change and, even better, get ahead of it?

The real ‘Dirt’ on Land Development

Mike Speed, Bay Civil Limited

About Mike

Mike Speed is GM of a small to medium sized Tauranga based civil contracting firm known as Bay Civil Limited. His life experience in Construction across the North Island, and with influences from his time in Melbourne, Australia, give him a unique view of how the land development sector has evolved and grown, and the challenges that today’s landscape presents.

Presentation

Land Development Engineering is more than just creating a “vision” of a project on behalf of a client. In today’s world you’ll need to demonstrate the engineering science behind the concept, how it supports or enhances the surrounding environment and how it ties into the city (or regional) plan. Then there’s the consideration of cultural requirements and restrictions, and the valuation of the project – is it even feasible? So much to consider…

In this talk, Mike Speed – a Civil Contractor with 25 years in the industry explains the game from a different perspective – and from an angle that is at times possibly not as well prioritised as it could – or should be.

Mike will touch on the challenges – and rewards, associated with land development construction in the field that he knows so well – the sandy soils of Papamoa.

The Sands CDC - engineered for success - a developer’s perspective

Bryan Perring, Kaitiaki Property

About Bryan

Bryan has a 25-year career in property, having held senior corporate property roles in New Zealand. Bryan has developed his career as a Development Manager with experience in all property disciplines including development across most property sectors including retail, industrial, hospitality, hotels, and office projects. Bryan has a B. Comm and Master’s Degree in Corporate Real Estate and various property-related endorsements. Bryan works with land development engineers across the private and public sector to deliver outstanding, and more importantly, successful development and centres. Having travelled extensively to numerous developments and mixed-use centres across the world, this experience enables the development of centres that are unique but deliver engineering solutions for a range of stakeholders, are customer focused and provide excellent returns for owners or investors.

Working with the land and natural hazards - the need to accept some inconvenience

Marianne O'Halloran

About Marianne

The increasing population is pushing development onto steeper land and that subject to liquefaction, settlement and flooding. This, in addition to the challenges brought about by climate change and the need to reduce the whole of life embodied carbon in construction, means that we need to think about how we can work with our environment instead of trying to control it.

Are we prepared to climb steps to our front doors and to wear gumboots to walk home occasionally?

Presentation

Marianne began work in the Special Projects Office of the Ministry of Works following completion of a PhD in civil engineering specialising in geomechanics. She moved to Tauranga after 11 years working on investigation, design and construction supervision with the Ministry and its successors. In Tauranga she worked for eight years with a consulting company that was involved with the planning, design and construction of many infrastructure projects. Since 2002 she has been working as a sole geotechnical practitioner carrying out a lot of work for regional, district and city councils in addition to private companies and individuals throughout the central North Island.

Marianne and her husband also had a small civil construction company for over 20 years that specialised in difficult access work, bridge, dam and tunnel repairs and the maintenance and construction of structures for the Department of Conservation. She was one of the first Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) engineers in New Zealand and worked with them for 17 years. Through this organisation and her connections with the councils she has been involved with the responses to numerous landslides, storms, floods and earthquakes.

Land Development & Subdivision Infrastructure

Kelly LaValley

About Kelly

Kelly is the Project Delivery Manager for Waimakariri District Council where she is responsible for a wide array of land development activities as well as capital projects and renewals. A great deal of her focus is on land development including mentoring and providing engineering advice to the Land Development team and working through complex issues relating to servicing and cost sharing. Kelly has also been focussing on improvements to the systems and processes used by the Land Development team to enable work to be more effectively and efficiently completed.

Presentation

NZS4404 is an outdated standard that is still in use today by many Land Development Engineers. With the likely 3 Waters Reform on the horizon, what will be the future of NZS4404? This presentation looks to explore the options for progressing updated standards to the industry while considering the approach taken by the National Transition Unit as part of the 3 Waters Reform process.

Transitioning asset management through Three Waters reform

Emily Botje, Asset Management Lead, National Transition Unit, Department of Internal Affairs

About Emily

Emily is the Asset Management Lead for the National Transition Unit and is instrumental in helping to establish the four new water services entities that will deliver Three Waters Reform across the country.

Emily joined the team in June of this year and is primarily responsible for:

the development of asset management plans for each entity, including the 10-year capital investment plan
a national code of practice for reticulation design and construction
frameworks to support growth, and
maintaining infrastructure investment through transition

Emily has been working in the asset management space for 25 years with local and international experience and brings with her a wealth of knowledge in the infrastructure management space.

Presentation

Three Waters Reform is a once in a lifetime opportunity to transform three waters services for the health and wellbeing of generations to come. Te Mana O Te Wai will be at the heart of the new system, which will underpin a catchment-based approach to managing water services. The reforms will also deliver scale and balance sheet separation, enabling the new entities to raise much greater levels of debt to fund the investment required, to be paid back over a longer timeframe (helping with affordability). Reforms also create the opportunity to build and sustain a highly skilled and adaptable water workforce and a customer-focused business that leverages new technologies and creates awareness of the water system and the value of water. The presentation will explain how asset management plays an integral part in making this happen.