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he Russian invasion of the Ukraine is forcing millions of families to seek sanctuary throughout Europe. Many will not return to their homeland, preferring to establish new lives in coun tries offering safety and an improved quality of life. In return, these refugees provide their expertise and gratitude for the opportu nity they are being offered – similar to other refugees who have successfully set tled in New Zealand since the early Explorers1860s.and sealers, followed by traders, farm ers, tradespeople, adminis trators, retired military and refugees involved many ethnic groups contributing their culture and determi nation to achieving a more rewarding lifestyle, where their expertise and skills were an invaluable contri bution to a young colony with high aspirations. These adventurous participants helped make our country what it is today.
skilled workers desperately needed to sustain national development. The latest relaxation is another 1,500 skilled workers for farms, meat processing and for estry throughout our critical and increasingly stressed primary and food process ingTheindustries.unfolding disaster in the Ukraine presents a mu tually beneficial opportunity for both the war refugees and for New Zealand. History proves our mi grants become valuable citizens, repaying our hospitality with their skills, commitment and loyalty. Increasing our population makes economic sense. As a wealthy nation with GDP per capita higher than the UK and many Asian and European countries, we can afford to increase our population by stepping up acceptance of war refugees. A growing population en courages more competition in products and services dictated by monopolies supplying increasingly ex
Skills shortages require pragmatic response
their loyalty, skills and work ethic.Engineers, builders, teach ers, healthcare workers, fishermen and even drivers will greatly advance our urgently needed infrastruc tureReportsdevelopment.oftraining 40,000 apprentice shortagesskilledtosectors.shortfallsgroupspolicyexpanding.mercialalsowithoutmentiselectricianscarpenters,andplumbersacommendableachievewhichwillbewastedjobswheretheyreceivecompetentsupervisionandmentoringtoachievetheirfullpotential.Thereisalsotheconstantthreatfromhigherpayingoffshoreemployers,luringprofessionals,especiallywherehealthcareandcombuildingisrapidlyOurerraticimmigrationreactstointerestneedingtofillincriticalexportVisasavailablerelieveshortterm,lowseasonallaboursuchasharvestingfruitexportcropswhileignoringlongterm,higher
As the “kind and friend ly” nation of international repute, offering a haven and a fresh start to those who have lost everything, we should also recognise the opportunity to embrace those refugees who will repay our kindness with
Fast forward to 2022 and a pandemic, together with a faltering infrastructure delivering sub-par results in our schools and trading establishments, combined with convoluted immigra tion policies and the lure of better paying jobs in neigh bouring Australia, means a steady erosion of the key skills necessary to improve productivity and deliver the requiredUnfortunateservices.natural disas ters, political and military actions in many countries have created a tidal wave of migrants, particularly those fleeing war zones and not forgetting those seeking a superior lifestyle in a country with attributes we defend, as we also un der-value their importance.
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such political acu men and courage emerges, government should actively facilitate industry importing
has arrived in Northport, the concerns about greater self-sufficiency and security of essential commodities like fuel, deserve renewed scrutiny and will require a
pensive commodities such as energy, preventingincomeareevidentexploitingpreparedNewthepeople,anumbers.failsandtradespeoplemigrantsmainlyconstructionsupermarkets,materialsetc.TheUKisanexampleofEasternEuropeanprovidingthetheeducationtradetrainingsystemtoprovideinsufficientNewZealandhassimilarneedfortradestechniciansandarrayoflowerpaidjobsZealandersarenottoundertake.Wemust,however,avoidmigrants,clearlywhereemployeesnotreceivingafairfortheirefforts,themfrom establishing themselves in the community. Accelerated recognition of credible for eign qualifications should be a priority, including working with mentors to confirm their expertise on the job and to assist the family’s integration into their new community
Our Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is predicting an exodus of at least 50,000 Kiwis this year, many of whom will be the very professionals and skilled workers we can ill afford to lose.
massive investment. We reportedly hold only 20 days stock of our 90 days strategic fuel reserves in country. To increase our local storage capability also will require a massive investment.
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The enduring pandemic and disappointingly slow takeup of booster vaccinations, coinciding with the change to employer-driven Covid protection measures, emphasise the need for businesses to focus on safeguarding staff. The lockdown of three major Chinese cities, their factories and adjacent ports, including the world’s busiest container terminal of Shanghai, during a new Omicron wave will prolong the shortage of refrigerated
A pan-political party im migration policy to comple ment other proven initia
charges. Freight forwarders report a TEU to Shanghai has risen from NZ$1,180 last year to $9,450; and a TEU to Europe from $1,500 to As$7,380.energy prices soar and the final crude oil shipment
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tives like overseas students in the Sciences, Engineer ing and IT who elect to stay and work, should be a priority, together with suit ably experienced workers seeking a better quality of life, while providing tomor row’s skilled workforce. Providing the experienced professionals and front-line workers needed to train and mentor future generations in the skills needed to keep New Zealand at the fore front of where people aspire toUntillive.
Coping successfully with international and national supply chain disruption remains critical. Businesses are now required to be lateral thinkers determining how to innovate in supplying essential products and services, while upskilling employees, throughout what may ultimately come to be remembered as the “Year of the RAT” rather than the “Year of Tiger”.
the highly skilled individu als desperately needed to significantly improve pro ductivities and accelerate national infrastructure de velopment, while enhancing their local forkindness.mutuallyUkrainianourMeanwhile,communities.letusopendoortothoseneedyrefugeesinabeneficialactofWewillallbethebetterit.
By comparison, the Australian government has given A$150 million to upgrade and maintain their remaining two domestic oil refineries, highlighting a pragmatic approach to greater self-sufficiency in Wouldfuels. a significant increase in investment in our scientific capabilities be a pragmatic contribution to our future economic wellbeing? Covid has provided opportunities for our world class Givenscientists.the‘forever’ status of the pandemic and concerns about greater selfsufficiency, it is exciting the Malaghan Institute plans trials of a locally produced vaccine later this year. In addition, this much wanted boost to our national selfsufficiency would be greatly enhanced by opening our borders to the scientists and overseas students we cannot provide ourselves.
Newcontainers.Zealand food exporters, hampered by the shortage of both skilled and unskilled workers, are facing escalating shipping
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7safetynews.co.nz aUGUst - sePteMBeR 2022 2 No better investment than chemical safety training 4 Skills shortages require pragmatic response 10 TTM changes – what you need to know 12 The perfect combination of quality assurance, high stock levels and expertise 14 Your responsibilities as a PCBU 24 Live polarity testing – how it can go wrong 25 Is VR the solution to a $24m problem? 26 Chemical safety relies on meaningful cooperation 28 TDDA on alert for fentanyl 30 The great unlearning 34 Sustainability rating tool gains traction 40 Safer, faster, multipurpose telehandlers 42 Fuel tax cut a wasted opportunity 46 Heavy transport company goes hydrogen 47 Will the future run off portable hydrogen cartridges 48 Should farmers pick up the slack for other sectors? 49 Courts hold governments to account for climate change 50 Climate goals need leadership and commitment 51 Capital’s climate action gains global recognition 52 How can we utilise open data in infrastructure? 54 Not sure what it is but it is going to be big 62 Keeping your worksite safe this flu season 64 Is it time to reinstate the Government Architect? 66 How BIM Will Impact Your Future Infrastructure Projects 68 Digitally driven heritage conservation 71 Earthquake-prone buildings can remain occupied 72 Kiwi innovation leading the way in concrete slab insulation 74 Fixing the cybersecurity blind spot in building management 76 Hard work gets results 78 Housing market facing challenges for rest of 2022 80 A snapshot of industrial, retail and office markets 82 New tax exemption set to unlock Build to Rent in New Zealand 83 Call for a national building products catalogue 8 Certification benefits to the bottom line ContentsGet our FREE newsletter emailed to you each week Published by Media Solutions Ltd PO Box 503, AucklandWhangaparaoa0943094287456 Original material published online and in this magazine is copyright, but may be reproduced providing permission is obtained from the editor and acknowledgement given to Media Solutions. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and may not necessarily be those of Media Solutions Ltd. ISSN 2624-0572 (Print) ISSN 2624-0580 (Online) Sales Manager Margie Lindsay +64 22 317 margie@infrastructurebuild.com8170 Publisher Mike Bishara +64 27 564 mike@infrastructurebuild.com7779 Administration Manager Anita Feria +64 27 444 anita@infrastructurebuild.com1573 Editor Michael Curreen +64 21 029 michael@infrastructurebuild.com20234 Graphic Designer Rachel Loo rachel@infrastructurebuild.com Daily updatesnewsonline
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The NZGTTM webpage includes explainer webi nars, FAQs, tools, guidance and other information. But simply put, regardless of how work in these areas progresses, you must work
The new way of working requires a risk management system to be implemented, that provides understand ing of the risks associated with the TTM work. This is a requirement under the legislation.CCNZsupports changes proposed by both WorkSafe and Waka Kotahi NZTA, and has been working actively with these organi sations. Significant cultural and behavioural changes are needed to move from a regulatory to a risk-based system. This will take time for all to understand – from road controlling authorities toAsubcontractors.goodexampleof how this approach can work in practice is the Austroads Guide to Temporary Traf fic Management , which introduces the concept of lowest total risk, and provides a risk-based approach. When applying the hierarchy of controls the balance between the safety of the workers and road users. Controls should be implemented to reduce risk to produce the lowest
in the new system.
CCNZ has actively en gaged with Waka Kotahi to address this. In this approach, we have found a willing partner. Already there have been changes proposed to the NZGTTM
he industry has tra ditionally conformed to the requirements of the Code of Practice for Temporary Traffic Manage ment (COPTTM), however the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 required work activities to be assessed for risk and reasonably prac tical controls to be put in place to protect workers.
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TTM changes –what you need to know
In the road corridors, appropriate controls are required for road users, es pecially vulnerable persons. Under COPTTM, Waka Ko tahi was effectively acting in a regulatory role, but under the new way of working the focus will shift to all parties working together to man age risk on temporary traffic management sites.
out how NZGTTM works within your business and on any road work sites you are responsible for, and how you do this should be based on sound risk management principles.Thisisnot a new obliga tion, it is required under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
What is the New Zealand Guide to Temporary Traffic Management?
Temporary traffic management in New Zealand is in the middle of a significant change – from a proscriptive compliance-based approach to a risk-based approach, says Civil Contractors New Zealand Technical Manager Stacy Goldsworthy
At this stage it has been through consultation. Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agen cy has received a significant amount of feedback, and is now consulting with indus try and other stakeholders. Key areas were identified in consultation feedback and are being addressed. These are:Roles and Responsibilities, the Training and Compe tency Model, Traffic Man agement Diagrams, the Risk Assessment Framework, Traffic Management Forms, Practice Notes and the As surance (Audit) Model.
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WorkSafe guidance
The NZGTTM provides an outline of what will be ex pected by those operating
totalISOrisk.31000 is the wide ly accepted benchmark for risk management and should be observed when developing risk man agement plans for your business.All stakeholders CCNZ has been in contact with believe the adoption of a risk-based approach is the best way to manage risk associated with TTM activities, and CCNZ has taken the decision to work proactively with Waka Ko tahi to refine and develop the New Zealand Guide to Temporary Traffic Manage ment (NZGTTM).
The first cut of NZGTTM outlined the core ratio nale behind the changes. However, it did not provide the level of detail required to enable the change to be successfully implemented.
The WorkSafe guidance mentioned above will clarify roles and responsibilities, and is being produced in consultation with industry, Road Controlling Author ities and Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency.
Training and competency
TTM Planner
CCNZ will continue to work with key stakeholders on how the requirements of the Act are meet. Based on the content of the NZGTTM and the upcoming Work Safe guidance, CCNZ has put forward a proposed statement of the roles and responsibilities of key roles within the system.
There is universal agree ment that temporary traffic management needs to be a career opportunity support ed by long-term competen cy training and recognition of achievement and compe tence.Tobest achieve this out come, a NZQA framework is required for the TTM industry. This opportunity needs to be open to all. It will require training support structures and different training outcomes such as adult learning if we are to have an uplift in the stan dard of training and compe tency across the industry.
Roles and responsibilities
One of the key issues to get alignment on is who provides final approval for Temporary Traffic Manage ment Plans.
We are in a transitional phase, and there is a lot of change for businesses to take in. We are moving from COPTTM as a compli ance-based set of controls to a risk-based temporary traffic management system.
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CCNZ has engaged on behalf of the wider industry with the Waihanga Ara Rau to develop a career path way for those that design Traffic Management Plans. The purpose is to establish a New Zealand Qualifica tions Authority (NZQA) framework for TMP Design ers. The outcome will be
So where does that leave us?
Everyone has different aspirations. Therefore, the framework will look to training and assess ment of competency for all. Those wishing to work in the industry will need to be trained for the work activities for which they will undertake.Thisisthe minimum re quirement for employers. To those that wish to progress their careers the reference group that Waihanga Ara Rau will work to determine what skill sets are required for roles required.
So, businesses need to make sure they have good risk management process es and work with clients to make sure any risks are understood and co.nzStacy@civilcontractors.managed.
To achieve this end, CCNZ has written to Waihanga Ara Rau Construction and Infrastructure Workforce Development Council, and is collaborating in forming a reference group of industry experts. This was formed in early 2022 to develop a framework which allows those entering into the in dustry a career progression.
CCNZ’s position is that the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 outlines the roles of a PCBU. It places specific requirements on the PCBU who has primary duty of care and the duty of a PCBU who manages or controls a workplace.
Some uncertainties remain around roles and responsibilities due various pieces of competing leg islation. This has added to the discussion around who holds key responsibilities for the sign off of Temporary Traffic Management Plans.
This is a position that aligns with the require ments that PCBU’s creating risk through their work activities are required to un derstand and manage those risks.The TTM planning indus try requires time to build competency and capacity given the changes expected from the NZGTTM and the upcoming release of the WorkSafe guidance on tem porary traffic management.
Agency Temporary Traf fic Management Planner assessment identified there is the need to lift the industry’s skills in this area. This is an outcome CCNZ acknowledges and sup ports, in addition to improv ing outcomes for those who design TTM for road work sites.The NZGTTM outlines changes in responsibility to align with the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act. This extends to the design of Traffic Man agement Plans. The respon sibility resides with those that are creating risk and they have a responsibility to manage risk to workers and roadCCNZusers.has approached Waka Kotahi for an exten sion to the TTM Planner warrant requirements that were put in place during the summer construction season. To align with the changes proposed in the NZGTTM, Waka Kotahi has indicated it will not be act ing to administer a warrant system in the future.
WorkSafe guidance is due for release in the coming months and will provide consistency across the system, as well as clarity around what is expected to manage risk and keep people safe on and around road work WorkSafesites.hasalso pro duced PCBU’s Working Together: Advice When Contracting. This outlines the expectations of Persons in Control of a Business or Undertaking (PCBUs) and how they should engage with each other on matters of the health, safety and wellbeing of those put at risk.
The recent Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport
micro-credentials and/or unit standards that cov ers risk management and skills/knowledge of TMP design.Untilthis career pathway is established through NZQA and training mate rials are available through either Te Pukenga or other approved suppliers, there is a requirement that those designing TMP’s have train ing and support.
that are being drafted.
There is a requirement for an ongoing commitment by PCBU’s who employ TTM designers to continue with the progress made thus far, while we build towards a future state where TTM designers’ skills and expe rience are recognised by a NZQA approved qualifica tion.Inthe proposed absence of a Waka Kotahi warranted system there is the require ment that TTM designers that have not passed the TTM Planner requirements are working to achieve course completion with the required support. This should include a training plan that identifies gaps in the candidate’s knowledge and training opportunities to address.
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A PCBU must, so far as is reasonably practicable, provide and maintain a work environment that is without health and safety risks. The work environment includes:
Providing safe systems of work is also a PCBU’s responsibility, as is providing any information, training, instruction or supervision that is necessary to protect
all persons from risks to their health and safety which may arise from the work of the business.Itisalso a PCBU’s job to monitor the health of work ers and the conditions of the workplace.Anotherresponsibility of a PCBU is to provide adequate facilities for the welfare of workers when doing work for the business, including ensuring access to those facilities. This also applies to providing healthy and safe worker accommodation whenClickappropriate.hereformore infor mation.
• the physical dust,lighting,environment,workincludingventilation,heatandnoise
safe plant and structures. This includes machinery, vehicles, vessels, aircraft, equipment (including personal protective equip ment), appliances, con tainers, implements, tools, buildings, masts, towers, frameworks, pipelines, quarries, bridges, under ground works (including shafts and tunnels) and any component of one of these items or anything fitted or connected to one of these items. PCBUs must also ensure the safe use, han dling and storage of plant, structures and substances.
PCBUs that fail to meet their health and safety obligations are putting people at risk and can face prosecution. The following are recent examples of health and safety failures by PCBUs and the resulting consequences.
Your responsibilitiesasaPCBU
• the psychological work environment, providingPCBUsdrugsstresssuchaimpairmentsarrangements)shift-workmentslines,overcrowding,includingdeadworkarrange(egtheeffectsofandovertimeandthataffectperson’sbehaviour,aswork-relatedandfatigue,andandalcohol.areresponsibleforandmaintaining
A PCBU means a Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking. Most New Zealand businesses, whether large corporates, sole traders, or self-employed, are classed as PCBUs.
Management pleads ignorance over severed thumb Fine: $200k | Reparations: $30k | Max Fine: $1.5m Though management were unaware of their machine’s health and safety risks, the company was fined $200,000 over the incident
ment Plan for the exercise it stated that controls would be in place to ensure the health and safety of those involved, including full flame-retardant PPE gear including overalls and a fire-resistant hood.
“Mainland Poultry has now improved its health and safety procedures, but their experience provides a timely warning for other businesses. Clear guidance and standards have been in place for many years, and the wider manufacturing in dustry needs to take notice to stop injuring and killing its workers,” says Mander.
lined in the Risk Manage mentWorkSafePlan. found that a limited safety briefing had occurred, and insufficient instructions were given pri or to the training exercises commencement, with some new participants on the second night not receiving any at WorkSafeall.
In August 2020 a mock operation was carried out at the Linton Urban Training Facility as part of an annual training exercise. During an exercise an incendiary device ignited, and three Service Persons were harmed.IntheNZDF Risk Manage
Mainland Poultry Limit ed was sentenced in the Papakura District Court after a worker’s thumb was severed in October 2020. The south Auckland egg processing company has been fined $200,000 and ordered to pay reparations of $30,000 to the victim.
Three injured after training goes up in smoke Fine: $355k | Reparation: $100k | Max Fine: $1.5m
Appropriate safety precau tions must be taken in highrisk settings such as this, including the bare minimum of providing the right equip ment to keep people safe.
also found that the petrol and diesel used to make the incendiary de vices was not appropriately stored and participants in the mock exercise had
While cleaning machin ery, her thumb got caught between the edge of an opened access latch and the rotating blade of a
screw conveyor, which had inadequate beenwerearoundsandraisedmatterslocation.not,bladeoffoundWorkSafe’sguarding.investigationworkerswereawaretheopenlatchtothebutmanagementwasduetoitsobscuredHealthandsafetyatthesitewereinanad-hocway,staffwereusingwork-whichmanagersalsounawareof.“Thisinjurycouldhaveavoidedifthemachin
ery was properly guarded to industry standard,” says WorkSafe’s national manag er of investigations, Hayden Mander.“Although a business might have standard operating procedures for machinery while it’s in use, it’s critical to think about how that extends to clean ing and maintenance too. Those uses can’t be dis missed as out of sight and out of mind.
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Lack of is always a recipe for disaster, no matter what the situ ation, WorkSafe National Investigations Manager Hayden Mander says
A WorkSafe investigation found that the appropriate PPE had not been provided to the Service Persons on the night of the incident. The provision of sufficient flame retardant PPE should have been ensured by NZDF, as specifically out
Three Service Persons will have to live with physical and mental injuries for the rest of their lives. It was reasonably practicable for NZDF to keep these people safe, but a lack of oversight means their lives will be altered forever.
NZDF has been sentenced in the Palmerston North District Court under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and must pay out over $450,000 after a train ing exercise went wrong.
access to and used the fuel during the mock exercise.
proper training and instruction
“If Blackadder Racing had taken reasonably practi cable steps to ensure that qualified and competent in dividuals had assessed the capability and competency of the rider and ensured the rider was correctly fitted with appropriate PPE, this may never have happened,” says WorkSafe Area Investi gation Manager Steve Kelly.
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A WorkSafe investigation found while the business owner had intended to, no induction was done the morning of the incident. No competency assessment was undertaken, includ ing no assessment of the victim’s riding abilities in a
On her first day working for Blackadder Racing in January 2019 the victim was asked to ride a thorough bredWhileracehorse.the16-year-old had some experience riding horses she had no experi ence and was not capable of riding a racing-fit race horse. She wasn’t expecting to ride a horse on the day of the incident and wasn’t dressed in riding attire. The victim was not able to control the horse, and it bolted. The horse jumped over a fence, failing to clear it, and the victim was thrown from the horse causing serious injuries.
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“It’s the duty of a business to ensure their staff have the appropriate PPE and are competent and capa ble of performing the tasks asked of
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safe and controlled environ ment before she mounted theBlackadderhorse. Racing also failed to have in place a safe system of work that en sured the use of approved personal protective equip ment (PPE) for the riding of a thoroughbred racehorse, including helmets and rider safety vests.
led to an incredibly tragic, and incredibly preventable incident.”Intheyear prior to the incident, the victim been studying at the National Equestrian Academy in Rangiora and had recent ly completed a National Certificate in Equine Skills Level 3, specialising as a “Sporthorse Stable Assis tant”. The sporthorse spe cialisation did not include any assessment of riding in-work thoroughbred race horses.TheNew Zealand Thor oughbred Racing Inc requires any licensed rider (such as the victim) riding a thoroughbred racing horse at a training facility to wear appropriate PPE including an approved helmet, body protector (safety vest), and footwear.Blackadder Racing’s Health and Safety Policy stated they would provide
appropriate PPE gear to any person riding at the facility and only experienced riders were permitted to ride the horses.WorkSafe’s investigation found the victim wasn’t supplied appropriate PPE. The victim wasn’t wearing a helmet approved for riding a thoroughbred racehorse nor was she wearing a safety vest.
“There has clearly been a lack of planning and forethought given to the hazards and risks of a new worker undertaking track work riding, which has
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No steps were taken to ensure the victims’ PPE was fit for standard nor that she was competent and capable to ride a racing thorough bred horse.
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employers Costs: $15.5k | Reparation: $317k | Max Fine: $1.5m
“Workerthem.”competency as sessments must be done in a safe environment where controls are in place to prevent serious harm.” lesson to all
WorkSafe New Zealand is reminding businesses they must assess the capabilities of their workers safe and controlled after life-altering incident left a teenage girl paraplegic
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While the tour group had undertaken basic training before commencing the trip with Thomssen, WorkSafe’s investigation found that this training had only lasted around 15 minutes and the practice terrain in no way resembled the hazards that the group would face while on the Whiletour.the adventure operator had assessed the terrain for the tour by helicopter, nobody had trav elled the actual route in the off-road vehicles the group would be using.
“There is no excuse for Adventure Activity oper ators not to register with WorkSafe New Zealand”, says WorkSafe Area Investi gation Manager Steve Kelly.
As part of the tour, the group were set to under take a coast-to-coast offroad driving component, led by company director John William Neil Thomssen.
A WorkSafe investigation found multiple health and safety failings by Prestige
A company has been fined $595,000 after a court found it responsible for the death of two of its customers due to multiple health and safety failures
Business facing liquidation after double fatality $595k $100k Fine: $1.5m
Fine:
not failed in the very basic duties required when peo ple put their lives in their hands.”Prestige Adventure was fined $595,000. Although it should be noted the com pany was no longer trading and was expected to go into liquidation.Whilethe judge would have ordered reparation in the vicinity of $230,000 due to the financial position of the company and Mr Thomssen the only repara tion ordered was $100,000. That figure being the amount that Mr Thomssen had been able to set aside from his personal financ es Thomssen would have faced a fine of $30,000 but due to his financial position and the priority to ensure that reparation was to be paid no fine was imposed on him.
What was supposed to be a 50th birthday celebration turned to tragedy, when two British tourists lost their lives in March 2019 while on a bespoke tour operated by Prestige Adventure.
“When operators are reg istered, that is an assurance to members of the public that the business’ health and safety practices are appropriate.”“Twomenlost their lives as a result of Prestige and Thomssen’s failure to keep them safe. The impact on their families and friends will last forever and would have been avoided had the company and Thomssen
The wheels on the righthand side of their second vehicle (a side-by-side offroad machine) crossed the tracks causing the vehicle to over-balance and the two men to fall more than 80 meters. They died instantly.
Adventure and Thomssen. The business had no docu mented training processes and no operations manual in relation to the tour.
The victims were travelling second in a convoy of five vehicles, led by Thoms sen, along a track on the Kakanui Ranges that had a steep drop off the righthand side.
The off-road driving element of the tour was set to pass through a several high-country stations and Department of Conserva tion land. Mr Thomssen had been explicitly denied access to the farmland that
the fatal incident occurred on.WorkSafe also found that Prestige Adventure was not a registered Adventure Activity operator, even after knowing that this was a necessary legal require ment under the Health and Safety at Work (Adventure Activities) Regulations 2016.
| Reparation:
| Max
A litany of health and safety failings has been laid bare in the Wellington District Court, where Waste Management has been sentenced to pay over $800,000 for the chemical poisoning of a worker
Fine: None | Reparations: $22.5k | Max Fine: $300k
Gross negligence
Anderson did not notify WorkSafe of the injury, as required by the Health and
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Daniel Anderson, an agri cultural fencing sole trader, had a 17-year-old worker
of systems at the site, with health and safety failures at every level. These included improper storage and haz ard identification, a lack of personal protective equip ment (PPE) for workers, and inadequate risk assess ment.“Jim Gideon’s death was completely unnecessary and avoidable. It’s only by luck that there were not multiple fatalities at Seaview that day,” says WorkSafe’s national manag er of investigations, Hayden Mander.“Exposing workers to this
degree of danger is unac ceptable to WorkSafe, and negligent in the extreme. Waste Management’s failure on so many levels is appalling.”Insentencing, Judge Davidson said a “wholesale systemic failure” had led to the creation of a “fatal gas chamber” at the facility. He imposed a fine of $450,000 and ordered reparations of Read$360,000.more about hydrogen Readsulphidemore about WorkSafe prosecutions caused toxic gas $1.5m
Gideon collapsed mid-after noon, after exposure to at least 500 parts per million of hydrogen sulphide. The maximum workplace expo sure allowed is 10 parts per million over an eight hour period.WorkSafe’s investigation uncovered a breakdown
‘I’m not their mother’ no excuse for lax health and safety
who was chiselling when a piece of metal flew into his right eye in March 2020.
Jim Gideon died in August 2017, after being overcome by hydrogen sulphide gas from a treatment pit at Waste Management’s facili ty in Seaview, Lower Hutt. Gideon had been directed to carry out a dangerous mixing of reactive chem icals to treat hazardous waste from the Haywards substation.Thewaste had sat un marked at the site for six months before being dealt with. During this time, the waste was never officially recorded, nor tested or la belled by the site chemist. A
destruction certificate was issued despite the waste having not actually been destroyed.Ontheday of the fatal poisoning, the hydrogen sulphide alarm repeatedly rang at the site, but work continued regardless.
A Kaikoura employer who failed to provide appropriate eye protection has been sentenced for failings that cost a young worker his vision in one eye
Despite multiple surgeries, the teenager lost sight in the eye.
death Fine: $450k | Reparations: $360k | Max Fine:
When a WorkSafe in spector asked Anderson whether he told workers to use protective gear, his response was: “I’m not their mother and going to dress them every morning”.
The investigation be gan after workers at Flick Anticimex Limited, a pest control fumigation service, suffered acute methyl bro mide poisoning as a result of ongoing exposure to the hazardous substance.
problems with fitting Re spiratory Protective Equip ment (RPE), and that some workers were not using it at all. Practices around RPE were seriously below what they needed to be,” says Api Poutasi, Manager Health, Health & Technical Services
Safety at Work Act 2015. Several months later the victim’s mother did so, trig gering an investigation.
Anderson also indicated to WorkSafe he felt it was too expensive to buy PPE, saying: “I’m too small for that sort of… carry on”.
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“Our investigation found
safety is part of the cost of doing business. The worker should have been provided with appropriate PPE, in cluding eye protection, and required to wear it when us ing a chisel and hammer or any other task where there is a risk of an eye injury.”
and morally wrong for an employer of any size to not notify WorkSafe of an inci dent like this. No employer is exempt,” says Mander.
Judge Raoul Neave ordered $22,500 be paid for emotional harm and consequential loss, given Daniel Anderson’s lack of insurance and inability to pay a
Readfine.WorkSafe’s guidance on protecting your workers’ eyes
at“BusinessesWorkSafe. shouldn’t rely on RPE as the main way to look after the health of their workers. They need to con sider the hierarchy of con trols. This is a requirement under the Health and Safety at Work (General Risk and
cost of health and
Employer’s advice gets workers poisoned Fine: $250k | Reparations: N/A | Max Fine: $1.5m A business was fined $250,000 after workers were exposed to methyl bromide, a WorkSafe New Zealand investigation found
“Beyond the obvious health and safety gaps in this case, it’s both illegal
“A young man at the start of his working life now has seriously impaired vision. It’s astounding for an em ployer to not understand the seriousness of the situa tion.“The
Workers who are vulnera ble because of age, inex perience, or conditions of employment may be less likely to question health and safety practices or to speak up if they are unsure.
Anderson confirmed that he had not provided full instruction to the victim on the use of personal protec tive equipment (PPE), such as safety glasses, because in his words “it was com mon sense”.
Workplace visingrydueworkexposedRegulationsManagement)2016.“Inthiscaseworkerswereduetothewaythewascarriedout,ortoineffectiverespiratoprotectiveequipment.“FlickAnticimexwasadworkerswithfacial
WorkSafe’s national manager of investigations, Hayden Mander says the employer’s comments re flect an outdated, unaccept able, and cavalier attitude.
help this, and workers will still be wearing RPE which hasn’t formed a seal based on incorrect information from their maintainquatelyandformaldehydeusestandardalsoWorkSafe’semployer.”investigationfoundthebusinesswasworkersdidn’tRPEwhenundertakingfumigationsnostaffhadbeenadetrainedtocleanandtheRPEequip
“Workers wearing RPE should be clean shaven. Even a small amount of stubble can prevent a proper seal from forming. Vaseline does nothing to
“The company had a duty to ensure the health and safety of other people was not adversely affected by its work. Johnston’s should have been doing regular inspections of all its vehi cles including the trailers
Decoupled trailer fatality results in $50k fine Fine: $50k | Reparations: $145k | Max Fine: $1.5m
The trailer’s safety chain failed, disconnecting it from the truck towing it in October 2020. The trailer collided with an oncoming car the young girl was trav elling in near Mata, south of TheWhangārei.owner-operators of the trailer, Johnston’s Direct Logistics Ltd, have been
hair to use Vaseline to help the mask fit on their face. This is a myth which is deeply concerning in how widespread it is. Business es and organisations must stop propagating this myth.
essential that RPE was pro vided and properly fitted.
Flick Anticimex Limited was sentenced on 7 De cember 2021 at the Auck land District Court, under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 for expos ing employees to toxic fumigants such as methyl bromide, hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde.
sentenced in the Whangārei District Court for health and safety Expertfailings.analysis commis sioned by WorkSafe found the condition of the towball and tow coupling was of “significant concern”. There was very extensive wear ing on both, which meant a small bump in the road,
ment that they did have. There was also no coherent system in place that moni tored employee exposure to toxic fumigants.
The death of a nine-year-old a crash has been traced back to a badly
worn down towball and coupling on a trailer used by a local trucking business
or change of incline, could allow the trailer to easily Asdecouple.well,the trailer’s certifi cate of fitness had expired, and its tyres had uneven WorkSafepressure. alleged John ston’s Direct Logistics failed to undertake regular and effective inspections of its
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Northland traffic
vehicles, and failed to iden tify the deterioration of the towball and coupling.
girl in
The business had been advised by an Occupa tional Health Consultant in 2019 that given the lethal nature of the fumigants involved, and the potential concentrations that workers would be exposed to, it was
Robin Killeen’s death is also a warning for other in terlinked companies to en sure their health and safety practices align. Front-foot the discussion, agree your procedures and document them clearly to avoid cata strophic consequences.
The company should also have ensured its vehicles
guilty and is still before the courts.Killeen became trapped after climbing into a bin lifter to clean it. The evi dence indicates he operat ed the controls from inside but was unable to stop the machine.AWorkSafe investigation found ANZCO should have developed a safe operat ing procedure for cleaning of the machine, and REL should have had better
had current warrants or certificates of fitness. As well, Johnston’s should have identified and logged the maximum weight every towing vehicle and trailer could manage, to ensure
hazard identification and risk assessment about the cleaningCommercialprocess.cleaning is a high-pressure industry that works on tight timeframes. Safety must come ahead of whatever appears to be the quickest and easiest way to do the job.
“This tragedy should serve as a warning to other businesses to keep a much closer eye on basic main tenance. A young girl’s life
Cleaner’s death a reminder to think around the clock Fine: $340k | Reparations: $105k | Max Fine: $1.5m You may have very competent staff and thorough procedures onsite in daylight hours, but many businesses have cleaners or other contractors coming in after hours for maintenance, WorkSafe area investigation manager Paul West says
The early morning death of a Taranaki cleaner is a lesson in 24-hour health and74-year-oldsafety. Robin Killeen died doing cleaning work in December 2019 at ANZCO in Eltham. The company and its subsidiary, River lands Eltham Limited (REL), have been sentenced in the Hāwera District Court for health and safety failings. Killeen’s employer, Kia Ma Limited, has pleaded not
that towing componentry was rated safe for use.
other contractors coming in after hours for maintenance, so it’s critical to consider these people in health and safety planning and assess ment of risks.
You may have very com petent staff and thorough procedures onsite in daylight hours. But many businesses have cleaners or
has been lost through no fault of her own, and her whānau is forever impact ed,” says Henry.
couplings and towballs to ensure they were safe and roadworthy,” says WorkSafe’s area manager, Danielle Henry.
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Read more about WorkSafe prosecutions
“An enforceable undertak ing requires the business or organisation to be directly involved in improving health and safety for the better ment of all. Today is where
Downer and McConnell Dowell have worked togeth er, as joint venture partners, to coordinate the activities they are undertaking.
• Facilitating a cyclist awareness pro gramme across road ing sites
establish options to mitigate the risks to vulnerable road users with CHASANZ
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each offered an enforceable undertaking, which was accepted.WorkSafe considered the following mitigations were reasonably practicable and could have reduced risk of harm:•A minimum one metre shoulder for cyclists
• Contributions to Waka Kotahi’s programmeBikeReady
On 30 October 2019 Fyfa Campbell Dawson was cy cling to work with her route taking her past a construc tion site on a temporary section of Springs Road associated with work on the new Christchurch Southern Motorway extension. Due to the nature of the site, a temporary route was set out for pedestrians, cyclists and others by those in charge. Dawson was following this route when she collided with a truck as it entered the site.
• Supporting the estab lishment of a Good Practice Guideline for the treatment of vulnerable road users in temporary traffic management
Two companies have avoided prosecution after traffic management health and safety failures caused the death of a cyclist, but have committed to an enforceable undertaking to ensure it does not happen again
The two enforceable un dertakings comprise:
• Reparations to the victim’s family
• Providing tentandprovisionspecificallytioninformation,ationsManagementTrafficOperwitheffectiveinstrucandsupervision,relatingtoforcyclistsclearandconsisinformation
• Supporting a scop ing study and pilot to
A subsequent Work Safe investigation alleged Downer New Zealand and McConnell Dowell failed to ensure the health and safety of members of the public as a safe and ef fective temporary traffic management system wasn’t in place. WorkSafe laid charges against both, and as an alternative to prose cution Downer New Zea land and McConnell Dowell
• Development of an NZQA qualification for Temporary Traffic Management Risk Assessment
• Investment in a virtual reality training pro gramme
Detoured cyclist killed by construction vehicle ENFORCEABLE UNDERTAKING
• Instruction havesupervisionandshouldbeenprovided to Traffic egressofrelatingoffordeliveriesnumberstoOperationsManagementinrelationthefrequencyandofexpectedtoallowtheconsiderationeffectivecontrolstotheriskvehicleentryandonsite.
• A fleet training pro gramme focusing on the potential impact of driver’s actions on vulnerable road users
“Enforceable undertakings require a commitment from the businesses and organi sations involved to improve health and safety within their business, industry and community,” says Work Safe’s Head of Specialist Interventions Dr Catherine Gardner.“Bothcompanies in this instance have expressed a desire to improve health and safety and especially to protect cyclists and other vulnerable road users.”
the commitment really begins and WorkSafe will regularly monitor progress on the conditions which have been agreed,” says Gardner.“Thisdoesn’t take away from the fact this was a preventable death. Cyclists and other vulnerable road users have a more than reasonable expectation they will be safe when they travel – and those in charge of sites like this one need to meetDownerthat.”Chief Executive Steve Killeen says his com
Hon Sang Cheuk was the sole director of DMJ Paint ers Limited, which hired the painter for the job at Buck lands Beach in June 2020. No scaffolding was in place at the house, nor did Cheuk check if the worker used the harness he was given for the job, or was trained and competent to use one. DMJ Painters Limited was put into liquidation 49 days after the fall occurred, so Cheuk himself was prose
pany has strived to ensure the activities set out in its enforceable undertaking will benefit not only its workers and industry, but also will have a wide reach within cycling communities across New Zealand.
exposure for all road users. We are creating a digital en gineering visualisation tool and partnering with indus try bodies when construc tion work is carried out.”
Liquidation no escape from health and safety accountability Fine: None | Reparations: $100k | Max Fine: $300k An Auckland businessman is being held liable for failures that led to the death of a subcon tractor, who fell from the roof of a house while spray painting
“We are always seeking improvement in the Tem porary Traffic Management space and we strongly be lieve that the work under taken as part of this en forceable undertaking will move the industry beyond mere compliance with exist ing requirements and have
cuted for his failings as a company director under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. He has now been sentenced in the Manukau District“IndividualsCourt.and directors have a range of health and safety responsibilities and liquidating your company does not absolve you of them,” says WorkSafe’s area investigation manager, Danielle Henry.
LimitedMcConnell Dowell Con structors Limited
Henry.HonSang
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a significant step change effect that benefits the con struction industry and the broader nesstiativeseducatingentiretoofdeliveryporaryaenforceablesaysagingMcConnellcommunity.”DowellManDirectorFraserWyllieheembracestheundertakingasplatformtoimprovetemtrafficmanagementandbuildcapabilityworkersandourindustrymakeroadssaferforourcommunity.“Theemphasiswillbeandtraininginitoimproveawareandtoreducetherisk
found inadequate risk as sessment at the site, where no measures were in place to prevent the victim falling from the roof onto a con crete“Somepatio.form of edge pro tection should have been in place as a basic safeguard. It was easily foreseeable that a fall could occur, resulting in serious injury or death.“The victim of this fall leaves behind a wife and
Cheuk was sentenced at Manukau District Court on 27 July 2022. Judge Forrest ordered reparations of $100,000 to be paid to the victim’s family. Judge Forrest did not impose a fine due to Mr Cheuk’s financial circum stances.
A WorkSafe investigation
Read more about the ac cepted enforceable under takings:Downer New Zealand
son, whose lives are forever changed by a simple failure to put safety first,” says
Live testingpolarity–how it can go wrong
he first occurredincidentwhen a live polarity test was used to test the connection of a newly installed mains cable and mains entry box. Be cause the connection was transposed between the phase and the neutral at the mains entry box it resulted in the installation being livened in a fault condition. The workers used a live polarity test which re quires the power to be on to enable the test to be carried out. Because of the transposition, turning on the power to carry out the polarity test in this situation created the fault condition before the workers could identify that the polarity of the electrical installation was incorrect, and respond. The transposition of the mains livened any electri cally earthed connections,
Two serious incidents occurred within a month of each other when the electrical workers involved performed the test improperly
The following apply when doing a connection on an electrical installation as required by the Electrical (Safety) Regulations 2010:
• Regulation 73A (5) of the Electricity (Safe ty) Regulations 2010 – to avoid doubt, in this regulation con nection refers to the prescribed electrical work that is the final step that will allow electricity to flow in the installation or part installation on which other prescribed elec trical work has been done.
such as the hot water vent pipe.Because the hot water vent pipe in this installation was equipotentially earthed, this caused a current to flow between the vent pipe and the iron roof. This resulted in intense local ised heating and/or arcing which in turn caused the building paper to ignite. This resulted in significant fire damage to the roof space of the residential dwelling.Thesecond incident oc curred adjacent to a school property and resulted in a neighboring iron fence be coming energised because of electrical work being carried out on the mains at the school. This was a seri ous near-miss incident and created a risk of electrocu tion for anyone coming into contact with the fence.
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• Regulation 73A (1) of the Electricity (Safety) Regulations 2010 re quires before connect ing to a power supply a low or extra-low voltage installation or part installation on which prescribed electrical work has been done, the person doing the connec tion must – (e) in the case of a low voltage installation or part in stallation, do all of the following: (i) ensure that the polarity and phase rotation of the supply are correct.
• These incidents would have been prevented by using the correct method of polarity testing. The polarity test that must be carried out is a deenergised polarity test. This polarity test method should be done after the connec tion has been carried out and before the installation is livened.
Guidance on how to carry a deenergised polarity test method can be found in the standard AS/NZS 3017.
Energy safety advice
Again, in this incident the electrical workers had used a live polarity test which required the power to be on to enable the test to be carriedTurningout.the power on to conduct the polarity test, created a fault situation in which the transposition of the mains livened the electrically earthed connec tions. In this case the iron cladding of a storage shed on the school grounds was livened.Therewere several iron poles leaning up against the shed which were in also contact with the neighbor ing iron fence. This resulted in a flow of electrical cur rent between the storage shed and the neighboring fence causing arcing to the fence.
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he Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment estimates the annual cost of injuries from falls while working at height to be $24 million, with approximately 70% of falls occurring from ladders or roofs.
Zealand.“NewZealand has a $24 million a year problem when it comes to accidents in the workplace resulting from working at height.
Virtual Reality offers unique advantages in memorable, effective training and retention for all types of learners, and for remote workers.
“Whether it was a question of not enough training or not often enough training, we set out to design an enhanced training system to accompany the traditional methods and ultimately save New Zealand not only money but lives too,” Newton says.
At Cortiical we looked at this cost and all the money that could be better spent elsewhere – and looked at how best to cut to the heart of the problem, the training.”
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The VR package launched by Cortiical has been developed in collaboration with education and subject matter experts and is the first of its kind specifically designed to reinforce NZQA legislationCortiical co-founder Elliot Newton says the Comprehensive Height Safety Training package, comprising Safe Working at Heights and Safe Working with Ladders Virtual Reality modules, is a first for New
Safe Working at Heights has been equipmenttofromway.an15757,outcomesItcoursedevelopedspecificallyasarefresherforNZQAlegislation.reinforcesthelearningofstandards17600and23229ininnovativeandengagingThiscoverseverythinghazardidentificationriskmanagementtoinspections.
“In addition, it breaks down barriers to information for people with learning differences, English as a second language and so on. And it provides a cost-effective way to connect with remote workers.” Newton says.
“The beauty of VR is that it is an extremely engaging visual medium that offers hyper realistic simulations to dramatically illustrate risks and how to mitigate them.
The modules themselves act as an hedependingoradiscussmarks?tools.goodGotheadsettraining?coursecompetencyunequivocalassessment.“TimeforarefresherforyourheightsGrabaVRandgetgoing.fullmarks?You’retogobackoutontheFailedtoachievefullYoumustfurtheryouranswerswithtrainedprofessionaland/attendrealworldtrainingonyourresults,”says.
Is VR the solution to a $24m problem?
A new Virtual Reality training package aims to tackle New Zealand’s poor safety record for working at heights
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he Drug Detection Agency (TDDA) is warning of the dangers that fentanyl brings in a safety sensitive workplace like trucking or forestry.Theprevalence of fentanyl and other opiates are affecting New Zealand’s workplaces. Drugs, now potentially laced with fentanyl, are affecting people’s safety and livelihoods.
TDDA on alert for fentanyl
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“The programme is about unlearning what we learned between the ages of about eight to 13 years old and restoring all the movement patterns that we learned naturally during the first five to eight years of our life,” says Milicich.
To a person, we emerged
practical truths, illustrated by a range of interactions, sometimes with a work mate.Weemerged half a work ing day later wondering who to sue for the prevent able harm I have inflicted by following instructions. Life quality did not require life time dedication, just a reor dering of basic instincts and tossing out a few myths. For our group, the qual ity of life had become anchored forever around balance and the 70/30 weight split between heels andWetoes.were converts to breathing out like weight lifters, sticking out our butts and letting tummies and abdominals do their thing - we discarded posture misinformation and stress and replaced it with com fort, a safe and secure back and no Optimum’spain. programme is of suggested solutions, not imperatives. “When we do this training, it is to benefit the individual. The company
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The most hardened cynics in our group quickly be came engaged in the pro gramme through a series of
tapping yourself lightly on the head with a hammer for years. Do it enough times and you will end up perma nently damaged.
clips the ticket and gets a benefit only when the indi vidual benefits.”
Optimum Training manager Dwane Stewart with an eager team of learners
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We were wrong. Boy, were we wrong. Partici pants soon learned “it was all about them” and their individual quality of life. And how 30 seconds after the training would break the harmful muscle memory that had taken over the way we did things.
70/30 balance is at the core of a quality of life
The great unlearning
Safety News and AsiaPacific Infrastucture publisher Mike Bishara accepts an invitation from Optimum Training to join a four-hour safety training session
“You cannot stand on a platform and tell people they are wrong. When a person’s belief is chal lenged, they will do any thing to defend that truth as it is what they believe and know and have lived by. The only way to expose the false belief is to lead someone to find the truth for them selves.Inmost cases following in stilled poor habits is akin to
harboured a fervent hope that 25 years of development and refine ment of Wayne Milicich’s injury prevention model might contain a few sur prises.Theprospect of four hours in what I suspected could be a moralising lecture about how to lift a box was not enthralling. I could see, as we shuffled into the training centre, that the rest of the class felt the same, with a range of resigned, bored and cynical faces.
For example, children all demonstrate best balance, unlike most adults. About 80 percent of the adult population “half breathe” from the apical area of the lungs as opposed to the diaphragm and lower lobes of the lungs, according to Milicich. “Children all naturally breathe from their belly, diaphragm, unless they are stressed.”
You cannot separate work safety and whanau safety – they are two sides of the same coin, according to Milicich. Health and safety at home and work are just a component of our life qual ity. Not something that is separated out with its own rules to be applied at spe cific times and locations.
of life of a person is com promised. The traditional medical model calls the problem ‘nonspecific back pain and occupational overuse’. In fact, the pain is about inadvertent personal misuse of the body -- it is veryThespecific.”bio-medical mod el reckons back pain is normal. “No, it is not normal,” says Milicich. “It is common, and the medical model is unwittingly part of the“Goodproblem.posture” is nothing more than an old wives’ tale based on the military model of control and it is still be lieved today. A teacher tells children to sit up straight as a means of controlling the class. It is now portrayed as good“Theposture.medical field is lit tered with information and advice that was eventually proven wrong and retract ed. Some of our western cultural beliefs are based in nothing more than decades or centuries old beliefs and mores.Thesad thing is that more than 80 percent of MSD's are inadvertently and unwit tingly self-inflicted. People hurt themselves as they interact with inert objects, and they don't even realise it, says Milicich.
Our session began with participation exercises which showed the overrid ing importance of balance. The 70/30 rationale was enough to consign to the bin, along with a flurry of other medical myths, the long-held and totally wrong “bend your knees and keep your back straight” doc trine.Itsoon became apparent why Optimum’s quality of life programme is used by many of the country’s most astute corporations in an age where time “off the floor” is critical to the bottom line and many com panies look only to tick the boxes of compliance.
The benefits are equally cost effective, available and absorbed by SMEs. My class had only nine other participants so having a cast of thousands is not essential – or even recom mended.“MoveSmart Think Smart is about addressing the un derlying causes of muscle and joint pain that occur as we interact with inert objects both at work and at home. Home injuries affect the workplace. Workplace injuries affect the home and family,” says Milicich.
through the air and strikes them. Or if it is moving on a conveyor and they put their hand where they should not.Aspade and the ground are both inert. To suffer pain while digging a hole is the person hurting themselves as they interact with the spade and ground.
“The only way a box can hurt someone is if it is flying
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ready to retrain our mis guided muscle memory with the learnertheWhencessMilicich.duringtoolsthestresshowhelpauto-immunealearned.andagain,”ralyearswhenoncesimplenitivelearningfacilitationprogrammetablesayou.mineonlythemselves.forpeoplejustmemoryreprogrammea-day-worth30-seconds-ofdrillstoourmusclethathadtakenusfourhourstomaster.“ThetrainingempowerstoworkoutthetruththemselvesandtrustYouarethepersonwhocandeterwhatworksbestforTrustyourselftomakegoodcall,”saysMilicich.Withnopen,paperorintheroom,thisis“pureadultofkinestheticfollowedbycogunderstanding.Itistorestorewhatwasinthemusclememorywewerefivetoeightold.Theoriginalneupathwaysjustopenuphesays.Welearnednowretainwhatwe“StressisrecognizedasmajorcauseofMSDanddisease.Wepeopleunderstandtheirbodymanifestsandequipthemwithunderstandingandtomanagethemselvesstressfultimes,”saysOptimum’sfacilitationprohasfourspecificsteps.appliedcorrectlytosession,mostoftenthehasnoideaofwhat
has happened, but they do recognise that their life has changed for the better.
“Either way the quality
The pain is a direct result of poor skills and technique of movement -- self-inflict edMostpain.people blame some thing or someone for this self-inflicted injury. At that point, only the symptom can be addressed with drugs and therapy.
Wayne
The problem returns as they repeat their old think ing and poor technique once the symptom has eased.“Noone deliberately hurts themselves. Given the op portunity, everyone makes the right choice,” says Milicich.Toaperson, everyone was engaged for the full duration of training, always relevant, interesting, prac tical and beneficial to each person. We felt equipped and empowered to take back responsibility for ourselves. I personally still muse over and apply the learnings. My years of knee pain has gone. Milicich
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project is being delivered. Their knowledge and perspectives inform and flesh out the scheme require ments in a way that preserves the rigour of the scheme but allows for respectful inclusion of a range of views. This occurs across the entire scheme.
The Infrastructure Sustainability (IS) Rating Scheme leaves “space for the place” and the people of that space -- most importantly in light of Te Tiriti, the Tangata Whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand.Thescheme recognises and rewards, under a range of credits throughout the scheme, the genuine engagement with, and inclusion of, indigenous groups as well as differing world views and needs.
In Auckland the CRL team worked with that concept in a highly successful way.
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Best of both worlds
In both cases use of the scheme comprehensiveotherbenchmarkingenabledwithprojectsonarange of
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It does not prescribe how that is done. The ethos is that that is best determined by the people from the place where the
CRL used version 1.2 of the IS Rating Scheme, but a new enhanced 2.1 version of the Design and As Built Rating Scheme was introduced late last year which contains greater emphasis on inclusion of indigenous perspectives amongst other things.
The technical guidance in Mahi Rauora Aratohu, like a korowai, wrapped around the IS scheme, and is being used for the remaining contracts within CRL. It also informed the approach taken on Watercare’s Central Interceptor Project which is undergoing rating.
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quadruple bottom-line outcomes and a respectful and considered local approach, that yielded measurable third-party verified impacts.
The Te Aha a Turanga project in the Manawatu, also undergoing rating, has attracted attention for its progressive approach particularly with respect to project co-governance. The
The Infrastructure Sustainability (IS) Rating Scheme measures a project or asset's sustainability performance and its use is already mandated by Waka Kotahi, features in Auckland’s City Rail Link, Watercare’s Central Interceptor project and Te Aha a Turanga (Manawatu Gorge replacement road project) among others
The rating tool is owned and adminis tered by the Infrastructure Sustainability Council (the ISC) to help drive sustainable outcomes in infrastructure.
or the $2.5 billion City Rail Link (CRL) Project, Mana Whenua worked alongside the project team to identify opportunities to respond to New Zealand's cultural context, which was right for Auckland and which added to the value proposition of theThisscheme.included a customised CRL Technical Manual, titled Mahi Rauora Aratohu. (Mahi rauora translates directly to 'work on the health of all things' and aratohu translates as 'pathway marker' but can be interpreted as guidance, meaning the manual is 'the guidance for work on the health of all things.')
Waka Kotahi is currently looking to map those credits across the scheme that will be of particular interest to iwi.
cultural values within a sustainability framework using the SustainabilityInfrastructureCouncil’s
But then the CRL project has already chalked a few firsts in its storied history. It has achieved a world-first in embedding
CRL’s latest health, safety, environment and sustainability report has for the first time been translated in its entirety into te reo Māori.
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Māori world view) has sustainability at its very core. We have a great responsibility to future generations for the way we conduct our businesses and the impacts that has on the environment and the people, the wellbeing of the whenua (land) and the tangata (people). Mana Whenua Forum member Edith Tuhimata says.
The new route between Ashhurst and Woodville Source: nzta.govt.nz
(The ISC) independent and internationally recognised rating scheme.
CRL members and the
The feedback to date has been that the holistic, long term, inter-generational view of adaptation)decommissioningdesign,(includinginfrastructureplanning,delivery,useandorandtheway a range of credits reference and incorporate local and indigenous perspectives is consistent with the values of Te Ao Māori even if not specifically referenced.
project won an award at the highly acclaimed Diversity Awards in 2021 in relation to this inclusive approach.
That concept of the importance of Māori perspectives (Te toitutanga) is a concept City Rail Link has included in every aspect of that project.
“Te Ao Māori (the
Embedding Te Ao Māori in everything we do
“So in our work with the CRL, we were concerned that cultural values, Te Ao Māori, were not represented in the diagnostic tools in the ISC rating system,” Tuhimata says.
* Data for January to December 2021
Mana Whenua Forum together developed and implemented Mahi Rauora Aratohu, a SweeneyinfrastructureZealand’sourTeWhenuatoworld-firsttoproject.approachofsatisfactiontakesSeanCRLmethodthat(versioniterationperspectivesworldreferences(theSustainabilitywithinculturalashelped(tunnelsmainAlliancewasMāori.compatibleandNewtakesManabetweenofratingmarket-basedbeentimeWhenuaandspecificallytechnical(TheSustainabilitycustom-madeworld-firstInfrastructureCouncilISC)InfrastructuremanualreferencingincorporatingManavalues,thefirstculturalvalueshavepilotedaspartofasustainabilitytool.CreatedthroughaseriesmonthlymeetingsCRLandtheWhenuaForum,ittheculturalcontextofZealandintoaccountusescriteriathatiswithTeAoMahiRauoraAratahuadoptedbytheLinkfortheproject’sContract3worksandstations)andguidethecontractoritgaveeffecttothecriteriaembeddedthetechnicalmanual.TheInfrastructureCouncilISC)hasenhancedtoindigenousviewsandinanewofitsratingsystem2.1)-anapproachtippeditshattothepioneeredontheproject.CRLchiefexecutiveDrSweeneysayshegreatprideandinthesuccesstheMahiRauoraAratahutakenonthis“IthasbeenanhonourbeinvolvedinthisandaprivilegepartnerwiththeManaForuminensuringAoMāorivaluesdriveworkinbuildingNewbiggesttransportproject,”says.
* Data for January to December 2021 Tunnel work in Mercury Lane Source: City Rail Link Ltd (cityraillink.co.nz)
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Te Ara Kotahi guides Waka Kotahi’s relationship with Māori across all aspects of its business.“Itaffirms our commitment to up hold Te Tiriti o Waitangi based on the
A Waka Kotahi perspective
“OnMāori.thatproject a stronger ap proach to partnership was undertak en with the establishment of an Iwi Steering Group to ensure that the Māori voice was heard, and cultural values were incorporated into the design and environmental outcomes for the
Photo: Hiwa-i-te-Rangi is unveiled to Auckland school children Source:Watercare.co.nz
“We want to show leadership in this area and the IS Rating tool helps drive and reward proper consider ation and inclusion of local insights and knowledge. We have started to map these examples so we can continue to improve practices taken on our projects,” according to Poku ra-Ward.WakaKotahi has a number of proj
The City Rail Link’s credentialsenvironmentalhave been further burnished with its Waitematā Station
ects where Māori values and Māori decision-making has been core to the success of these projects. One example is the Ara Tupua walking and cycling project in Wellington where Waka Kotahi recently won an international award under the indig enous category for its leading work with
“Māoriproject.perspectives have been key for us to build a sustainable future for New Zealand and it’s exciting to see Māori increasingly leading these conversations and initiatives,” says Pokura-Ward.
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“The complete translation of our report, Te Pūronga hauora, haumaru, taiao, me te toitutanga, is a continuation of our commitment to our Mana Whenua partners and Te Ao Māori,” he adds. “This is
CRL also acts as a leader on more sustainable practices
“Sustainability is no longer a nice to have but a ‘must have’ on our proj ects and Māori are really important part of that sustainability journey be cause Māori are inherently the pro tectors and guardians of Aotearoa and have a history and value system that respects, nurtures and protects theTheenvironmentMāoriStrategy
“Since we adopted the IS rating tool in late 2020 we’ve seen a real shift in awareness and the desire to embrace sustainability across Waka Kotahi and our transport sector industry partners,” says Principal Specialist (Environment & Sustain ability) Rebekah Pokura-Ward.
“On the multi-billion-dollar New Zealand Upgrade Programme we are incentivising our suppliers to come up with innovations to reduce carbon emissions in construction, to restore and enhance our biodiversi ty and support our local and Māori businesses. “
principles of Partnership, Protection and Participation and identifies how we can bring these principles to life with over 60 key actions, by way of example,” she says
(Britomart) works awarded a ‘Leading As Built’ rating, an independent verification of the project’s outstanding sustainability outcomes, from the ISC).SustainabilityInfrastructureCouncil(the
meaningful work and has had real-world application as we endeavour to make the CRL a sustainable and best-practice project that adds value to our society and environment.”
Waste management highlights included keeping 8,303 tonnes of construction and demolition waste and 24 tonnes of office waste out of landfill. Assisting this achievement was procurement and design optimisation, onsite separation of concrete, steel, clean fill, office waste and compost and the reusing of waste material on and offsite.
The City Rail Link (CRL) project aims to achieve sustainability excellence by carefully determining which resources are used, optimising the carbon footprint, avoiding waste and leaving a positive social and cultural legacy for Auckland
sharing designed to extend beyond the life of the works and to inform the design and implementation of future projects. This objective was achieved through a well-defined and integrated sustainability management system with regular re views and reporting to project sponsors, leadership teams, the Mana Whenua Forum and community liaison group. This provided for sharing sustainability knowl edge by both CRL Ltd and the contractor, both within the team and wider (Auck land Transport, external stakeholders and the general public).
For the Waitematā Station (Britomart), this included creation of a new public square, Te Komititanga, designed by Mana Whenua artists and weavers, in consultation with CRL’s Mana Whenua Forum representing eight different iwi across the Waitematāisthmus.Station is the busiest on the Auckland rail network, situated at the heart of the CBD and housed in the historic and protected Chief Post Office. This presented significant construction obstacles, including the proximity to offices and residential building, some of which also have heritage status, and required strict limits around noise and vibration.Resource efficiency was essential to the design (which also received a leading design rating), planning and implemen tation of the works, leading to 97 percent of construction and demolition waste and 100 percent of spoil diverted from landfill and significant efficiency gains over CRL’s 100-year lifespan.
A change in construction methodology from using contiguous piles in pre-treat ed columns to diaphragm walls and mini piles underneath the Chief Post Office greatly assisted in achieving energy effi ciencies. The replacement of diesel gen erators with grid electricity for site offices and on-site equipment also helped. Other highlights included water con servation, reducing construction water consumption by 21 percent and gener ating a forecast 58 percent reduction in water use of the lifecycle of the station. A 13 percent saving is projected for the urban realm during the 100-year design life of CRL.
Waitematā enabling works awarded a leading rating
The achievement follows the ‘Excellent As Built’ and ‘Leading Design’ ratings awarded earlier for CRL works at the lower end of Albert St (Contract 2)), as well as a wide range of honours for innovation, sustainability, engineering and circular economy practices bestowed upon theTheproject.Waitematā works involved the construction of twin 136m-long tunnels under the Chief Post Office, a protected historic building, and lower Queen St and the reinstatement of the surrounding urban realm.Theworks were conducted by the Downer/ Soletanche Bachy (DSB) joint venture, while design of the works was by Aurecon, Mott MacDonald, Grimshaw, Jasmax and Arup.Sweeney says he wants to acknowledge the work of the contractors on the Waitematā works and the Link Alliance, which has adopted the ISC sustainability guidelines in the design and construction of the project’s two new underground stations, an above-ground station, bored, mined and cutand-cover tunnels and connections to the Western Line and all rail systems.
Plan for the interior of the redeveloped Britomart train station Source: City Rail Link Ltd (cityraillink.co.nz)
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“CRL is what I believe is New Zealand Aotearoa’s highest value employment project, bringing big changes to the construction industry,” Sweeney says. “During the year we continued to use the scale and complexity of the project to demonstrate our ability to have a positive impact on the wider industry.”Downer
These include a 17.8 percent reduc tion in peak operational energy use, 23 percent reduction in operational carbon emissions and 58 percent reduction in waterLeavinguse.a legacy for future generations was a cornerstone objective for the proj ect, with a strong focus on knowledge
The right of a Māori tribe to manage a particular area of land
Glossary for readers less familiar with Te Ao Māori
Te Aha a Turanga: Manawatu Gorge bypass project
Korowai:
General2022. Manager, New Zealand Adrienne Miller, is a lawyer who, as well as her role at the ISC, has served on the Building Advisory Panel at MBIE, Infrastructure New Zealand’s WIN Advisory Board and is a trustee on the Board of Diversity Works New Zealand. She is involved in mentoring programmes and writes and speaks on issues facing the construction and infrastructure sector. Adrienne.Miller@iscouncil.org +64 27 693 9753 LinkedIn.
The Link in16expectedenergylightingthat,efficientcementbycarbonreducing(seebenefitsdeliveringandconstructionAlliance’softhetunnelsstationsisalreadysignificantthroughinitiativesboxabove)suchastheembodiedoftheconcreteusedsubstitutingfly-ashforaswellasenergystationdesignsincludingminimisingandventilationuse.Theseinitiativesaretoresultinapercentreductionembodiedcarbon,
The indigenous Māori people of a particu lar area of New Zealand or of the country as a whole.
The project has five key environmental and social objectives: reducing resource consumption; zero waste to landfill; creating positive social outcomes; ensuring positive outcomes for Mana Whenua and that the project appropriately reflects Māori culture; and best practice governance andThereporting.Waitematā works will result in a 17.8 percent reduction in peak operational energy use and 23 percent reduction in operational carbon emissions over the project’s 100-year lifespan. In terms of the project’s aspirational goal of zero waste to landfill, 100 percent of spoil, 97 percent of construction and demolition waste and 74 percent of office waste was diverted from landfill.
a 19 percent reduction in construction energy emissions and a 22 percent reduction in operational energy emissions, for total savings of 60,515tCO₂e over the 100-year designlife.Sweeney says these facts represent an important achievement for New Zealand and the construction industry, in particular: “Construction and demolition accounts for about half of New Zealand’s total waste to landfill, so as the country’s largest infrastructure project, we have an important leadership role to play in reducing waste to landfill.
Te Ara Kotahi:
CRL’s 100-year lifespan, will benefit Aucklanders for generations to come,” Sweeney says.
“These are meaningful and tangible results that reflect our commitment to sustainable constructioninfrastructureand,given
IS-rated project in New Zealand is a great accomplishment: “This success was built on the collaborative relationship between CRL and the DSB joint venture and underpinned by the strong sustainability culture set by our senior leaders.
Mana Whenua:
The Treaty (of Waitangi) is widely accept ed to be a constitutional document that establishes and guides the relationship between the Crown in New Zealand (embodied by our government) and Māori. The Treaty promised to protect Māori culture and to enable Māori to continue to live in New Zealand as Māori. Increasingly this phrase is used in shorthand to refer not only to the document, but manifesta tions of co-governance and other partner ship type behaviours that breathe life into those obligations.
Among the re-use purposes the waste has been put to include basalt rock from Maungawhau Station (Mt Eden) being used to build sea walls on the Coromandel Peninsula and create bike obstacles at the Totara Park Mountain Bike Club in South Auckland and timber offcuts being used for works of art.
“It is our earnest hope that by setting the bar high, we provide the inspiration for construction projects that follow to achieve even better, more sustainable outcomes,” Sutherland says.
Te Tiriti:
The pathway that Māori and the Crown walk together on as envisaged by Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Tangata Whenua:
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A traditional woven Māori cloak worn as mantle of prestige and honour. The name Korowai is symbolic of leadership, and includes the obligation to care for the peo ple and environment.
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“Our peers in the industry can see what we’re doing and how we’re doing it and this is going to lead to a signficant culture shift and help lead the construction industry to a more sustainable approach to its work,” he says.
The rotating telehandler can then pick the load, ro tate and place the materials where needed.
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“As technology has im proved so has the reach and lifting capacity of these
type of machines. On a multi-level construction site, a machine with a five-tonne lift and 26-metre reach would usually have been the standard,” says Boon.“Now machines are avail able for bigger projects with heavy lift capability up to 13 tonnes and machines with a reach of 51 metres.”
he days of needing on site a mobile crane, a boom lift or other types of elevated work platforms, a forklift and an excavator are num bered - one machine can do it Rotatingall. telehandlers may look a lot like their conven tional cousins, but they are veryTheirdifferent.arrival on New Zealand work sites has completely changed the way project management is planned and the way on-
site work is completed in a safer and faster manner.
They load material, pick it up, drive to where it’s needed and then unload.
The concept originated in Europe, where the majority of urban construction sites are very compact and do not allow room for tradition al have“Rotatingtelehandlers.telehandlerstakenNorthAmeri
ca by storm and over the past 18 months have been attracting a lot of attention in New Zealand,” says APS general manager Darren Boon, agents for Magni, one of the most technologically advanced brands of rotating telehandlers in the world.
The introduction of game changing 360-degree rotating telehandlers looks set to disrupt the infrastructure, civil and construction industries
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The world’s highest rotating telehandler – RTH6.51 (six-ton lift) has an impressive 51-metre reach (not pictured)
Safer, faster, multipurpose telehandlers
Magni recognised early that the biggest trend in the industry is to lift safer, higher and heavier
The LMI system constantly monitors the move ments of the machine to avoid any type of overload. If the system detects operating inconsistencies, it interrupts all aggravating movements, allowing only safe maneuvers (boom retraction and load release). This prevents operator error causing serious injury to themselves and nearby staff.
The Load Movement Indicator (LMI) system is a load limit device. It is fitted as standard on all Magni telescopic handlers (RTH, TH and HTH ranges). It is made up of a rotation sensor, stabiliser cable reel, lifting cylinder pressure sensors and the LMI safety control board. Together, these components provide the operator with the best real-time load chart. This system continuously analyses the spatial positioning of the load and stores specific load charts for each attachment, displaying the correct load chart based on the machine’s working configuration.
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to easily swap attachments between winch and a set of forks the machine can pick and carry around the building site for more efficient lifting or the unloading of trucks.
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Every telehandler is equipped with the R.F.ID auto matic attachment recognition system on the boom head. Whenever a new attachment is fitted to the ma chine it is recognised automatically and the display shows the corresponding load chart.
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n Auckland private building company has purchased a Magni rotating telehandler in favour of hiring a tower crane for the construction of a four storey apartment block in West Auckland. The rotating telehandler meets most of their lifting requirements for the crane work, with a larger mobile crane only being bought in to lift the heavy pre-cast panels. Having the ability
All deliveries from the building supplier can be ordered on flat-deck trucks which means quicker delivers and savings of up to $150 per delivery by not waiting for Hiab/crane truck to become available.
Replacing a tower crane with a rotating telehandler.
The safety of the operator and people nearby is paramountEFFICIENCY
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Fuel tax cut a opportunitywasted
While the world moves to phase out fossil fuels and advance transport infrastructure, New Zealand is spending over a billion dollars just to maintain the status quo
With New Zealand at the mercy of the global market, those cost increases have been seen at the pump.
This is because, despite refineries around the world putting up their prices, the Marsden Point refinery’s profits were capped.
Could New Zealand have insulated itself against fuel price increases?
If Marsden Point was still operating today, such severe cost increases could have been avoided.
This explains why New Zealand has not experienced such severe fuel price increases in the past, when the price of crude oil reached similar levels as recent as 2011-2014. The price at the pump then peaked at $2.22 for 91 unleaded – and that was without a fuel tax cut.
crying out for funding for years. Yet, a billion dollars later and New Zealand’s transport infrastructure will be no better off once the fuel tax cut ends in January 2023.Worse still is that the consumer has hardly been better off either. Until recently, intended savings for the consumer have been mostly absorbed by fuel companies looking to make a profit. The price of crude oil hit its peak in early March, yet the cost at the pump continued to trend upwards in the months that followed.Thisonly changed in July once Energy Minister Me gan Woods learned that fuel
Yes, shipping costs have gone up and the exchange rate is not as favourable to New Zealand, but a big driver of high fuel prices has been the spike in refining margins. Essentially, while the price of crude oil is not much higher than it has been in the past, refineries’ profits have gone up.
Because the Marsden Point refinery’s profits were capped, it is likely that fuel prices would not be as high if New Zealand was still refining oil itself. Instead, the country is now completely reliant on refined product from overseas countries and as such, must accept their extreme prices.
25-cent tax cut on every litre of fuel may seem like a welcome initiative given the spike in global oil prices, but it comes at the cost of over a billion dollars in lost tax revenue. That money has to be made up for from somewhere, as revenue collected from fuel taxes is essential for funding roads, public transport and walk ing and cycling initiatives. Finance Minister Grant Robertson says he will ‘re-prioritise’ other funding to make up the billion-dollar shortfall.Ittooka cost of living crisis for the Government to find more money for trans port, a sector that has been
The decision to decommission New Zealand’s only oil refinery at Marsden Point has backfired on the entire country.Therefinery, which produced 85 percent of New Zealand’s jet fuel and 67 percent of its petrol and diesel, became an import terminal as voted by Refinery NZ shareholders in August last year.
At the time, refining profits were down and it was costing millions to keep the refinery running. The board said there was an oversupply in refining capacity.However, that all has since changed. There has been a shortage of refining capacity since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, triggering a spike in the price for refined product as refineries look to boost their profits.
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“Subsiding fossil fuels by making petrol and diesel a little cheaper for half a year doesn’t make sense in 2022, when we need to make the transition to cleaner transport.
could have been taken with transport initiatives for the public, Green Party Trans port Spokesperson, Julie Anne Genter says.
The first three months of the fuel tax cut alone could have future-proofed rail in the lower North Island, she says.With a bit more invest ment, the lower North Island could have hy brid-electric trains and im
company profit margins had more than doubled, rising from 22 cents a litre to 45 cents a litre. This left the consumer a mere two cents betterWoodsoff.says fuel compa nies are expected pass on the fuel tax cut to consum ers rather than pocket it for themselves.Evenifthis does happen, the fuel tax cut is still not an equitable solution to the cost of living crisis. Businesses that use more fuel are clearly the biggest benefactors. A good portion of the fuel tax cut’s billion dollars is going towards those businesses, yet they will have nothing to show forWhenit.
“The Government could have used that money to save and transform the ail ing passenger rail network
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New Zealand is trying to cut its transport emissions, that billion dollars could have gone towards helping businesses transition to cleaner energy,
provide them with alterna tive transport options and reduce their dependency on oil, cutting their expenses in theThatprocess.same approach
and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in the first place.”
“The Government can pre vent this from happening by coming to the table with a mere $350 million, which will at least quadruple the services to Manawatū and double the services to Wair arapa.”Making public transport free and investing in it, rather than just subsidis ing fares, is another more
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progressive initiative the Government could have taken to address the cost of living crisis instead of a fuel taxBycut.and large, New Zea land’s public transport is expensive, unreliable and inefficient. This was an opportunity to turn things around, create a worldclass public transport system and offer people a better alternative once driving their car became too wasted.crisisprocess,opportunitylivingfuelssystemture-proofZealandholdingport.transportNewthehasunaffordable.InsteadtheGovernmentkickedthecandownroadandoptedtokeepZealand’soutdatedmodelonlifesupThefueltaxcutisjustthecountryback.Soonerorlater,Newwillhavetofuitstransportandleavefossilbehind.Thecostofcrisiswastheperfecttokickstartthisbutitisagoodthathassadlybeen
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proved train infrastructure. The $762 million business case has been put togeth er by Horizons Regional Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council and Waka Kotahi, who have already committed more than half of the “Governmentmoney. invest ment is not only needed to help this service continue running, but to cope with growing demand. By 2025, just three years from now, it’s predicted that the Wair arapa line will have exceed ed its passenger capacity, and by 2030, the Manawatū line will be in the same boat,” Genter says.
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Fabrum Chief Executive Dr Ojas Mahapatra says there is a surge in demand for hydrogen solutions, driven by increasing decarboni sation and energy security challenges.“We’reexcited to be
ero-emissions transi tion company Fabrum is developing and deploying an end-to-end scalable hydrogen refuel ling solution for HWR to enable fleet-ready access to hydrogen. This coincides with HWR’s plans to have ten dual-fuel hydrogen diesel trucks on the road by the second quarter of 2023. Fabrum is developing the first green hydrogen production system for HWR for its Southland site, using a 1.1-Megawatt (MW) membrane-free electrol yser combined with its cryogenic technologies in a containerised system for decentralised point-of-use refuelling.Fabrumwill also supply hydrogen storage technol ogy that integrates with compression and dispens ing technology to enable an end-to-end solution of production through to dis pensing of hydrogen gas.
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New Zealand’s largest heavy transport company H.W. Richardson (HWR) plans to decarbonise its transport fleet by adopting a hydrogen refuelling solution developed by Fabrum
“Their world-leading solu tions enable hydrogen pro duction capability on-site and on-demand. As HWR rolls out dual-fuel technolo gy and its hydrogen refu elling network across New Zealand, Fabrum’s ability to scale to grow with us means this alternative fuel source will be a solution for the entire heavy transport industry.”HWRhas been trialling dual-fuel hydrogen tech
membrane used in common PEM electrolysers. A 1.1 MW system can produce 450kg of hydrogen per day from water.HWR
“It’s fantastic to see HWR commit to a hydrogen transition, to significantly impact their emissions –and create a pathway for the industry as a whole to move towards improved sustainability and ultimately zero-emissions.”
working with HWR to pow er change for a new ze ro-emission transport future with our green hydrogen technologies. As one of New Zealand’s largest com panies, HWR can action big change that impacts its
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Chief Executive An thony Jones says Fabrum is a key part of the company’s
emissions and provides a sustainability and decar bonisation blueprint for heavy genandwaterHydrogencompanyyserMembrane-FreecombinedarationwhicherFabrum’stransport.”AFCryocoolcryogenictechnology,enablesgassepandliquefaction,withpatentedElectroltechnologyfromUKCleanPower(CPH2)–splitsintopurehydrogenmedicalgradeoxy–withoutthepolymer
nology for its truck fleets since late 2021. Dual-fuel is a future fuels solution that works for the entire heavy transport industry, enabling this low-carbon transition in an accessible and sus tainable manner. Dual-fuel technology diesel engines can replace up to 40% of the diesel with hydrogen – resulting in a 40% reduc tion in emissions – without powerHWR,loss.which owns the Allied Petroleum network of around 110 fuel stops across New Zealand from Stewart Island to Karikari Peninsula, has options to buy further electrolyser and hydrogen storage systems from Fa brum for new and existing refuelling sites.
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hydrogen project.
“We can use our fuel net work to distribute hydrogen as an alternative fuel not just for our fleet, but to help the heavy transport industry as a whole – by removing barriers to accessing ready hydrogen fuel,” Jones says.
Fabrum Managing Direc tor and co-founder Christo pher Boyle says hydrogen is one of the most scalable and viable options to help the energy transition to a lower-carbon economy and Fabrum.“Toleave the world a better place, we need to look to a new future with liquid hydrogen – and we’ve developed the technology to make that future a reality. Our hydrogen fuel produc tion technologies open new possibilities for sustainable long-distance transport, marine and aviation – and energy self-sufficiency.
• Target weight: 5 kg (11lbs)
• Volume flexibility allows for a broad variety of daily use applications*2
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ogether with ENEOS Corporation, Toyota and its subsidiary Woven Planet are working to build a genlymicrowaveoperateategentransport,andchainhydrogen-basedcomprehensivesupplyaimedatexpeditingsimplifyingproduction,anddailyusage.ToyotaandWovenPlanetwillconductProofofConcept(“PoC”)trialsinvariousplaces,includingWovenCity,ahuman-centeredsmartcityofthefuturecurrentlybeingconstructedinSusonoCity,ShizuokaPrefecture,Japan.ThesetrialswillfocusonmeetingtheenergyneedsofWovenCityresidentsandthoselivinginitssurroundingcommunities.Hydrogenhassignificantadvantages.ZeroCarbonDioxide(CO2)isemittedwhenhydrogenisused.Furthermore,whenhydrogenisproducedusingrenewableenergysourcessuchaswind,solar,geothermal,andbiomass,CO2emissionsareminimizedduringtheproductionprocessaswell.Hydrogencanbeusedtogenerateelectricityinfuelcellsystemsandcanalsobeusedasacombustionfuel.Itisassumedonehydrocartridgewillgenerenoughelectricitytoatypicalhouseholdforapproximate3-4hours.BenefitsofUsingHydroCartridges•Portable,affordable,andconvenientenergythatmakesitpossibletobringhydrogentowherepeoplelive,work,andplaywithouttheuseofpipes•Prototypedimensions:400mm(16″)inlengthx180mm(7″)indiameter
Will the future run off cartridgeshydrogenportable
The cartridge design will facilitate the everyday transport and supply of hydrogen energy to power a broad range of daily life applications in and outside of the home, Toyota says
imagine.Together with inventors and those living within and around Woven City, we will continue to advance mobil ity over time by constantly developing more practical applications for hydrogen cartridges.InfutureWoven City demonstrations, we will continue to improve the hydrogen cartridge itself, making it increasingly easy to use and improving the energy density.
The ultimate goal of this project is to realize a car bon-neutral society where everyone can access clean energy, first in Japan and then throughout the world.
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Woven City will explore and test an array of energy applications using hydro gen cartridges including mobility, household appli cations, and many future possibilities we have yet to
• Small-scale infrastruc ture can meet energy needs in remote and non-electrified areas and be swiftly dis patched in the case of a disaster
Next Steps for the Hydro genTodayCartridgemosthydrogen is generated from fossil fuels and used for industrial
purposes such as fertilizer production and petroleum refining.Touse hydrogen as an energy source in our homes and daily life, the technol ogy must meet different safety standards and be adjusted to new environ ments.Inthe future, we expect hydrogen will be generated with very low carbon emis sions and used in a wider variety of applications.
However, any efforts to sequester carbon would not be factored under the proposed model.
“The commission has recommended that car bon sequestration through on-farm vegetation should sit outside any emissions pricing system, and instead could reside in a separate system due to the complex ities, risk of inequity, a lack of impact on emissions, and the fact that some seques tration is already rec ognised through the ETS,” Dynes says.
Meanwhile New Zealand’s CO2 emissions were about 20% below average in 2019, making it one of the more carbon-friendly countries in the world. So while New Zealand has some of the highest greenhouse gas emissions in the world per capita, it does not tell the full“Thestory.policies of the New Zealand Government don’t determine how much food the world eats, but they do decide whether or not that food is produced by the most emissions effi cient food-producers in the world, New Zealand farmers and growers,” Groundswell says.“Punishing our domestic agriculture sector with a tax on emissions will just increase global emissions, as the less efficient foreign agriculture sectors take up the room left in the market, all the while making New Zealand poorer.”
produced by other sectors.
farmers who had expected recognition from seques tration through on-farm vegetation.”Indeed,farming advocacy group Groundswell NZ has spoken up against the com mission’s proposed model.
Should farmers pick up the slack for other sectors?
The Climate Change Commission’s advice on how agricultural emissions should be taxed is being criticised as a way to offset emissions produced by other sectors
The Government has until December to review the commission’s advice and decide on what emissions pricing the agriculture sec tor will face.
been set to offset warming from our industry but go much further and require farmers to help offset warming produced by other sectors.”Groundswell believes New Zealand’s farming has little or no effect on the climate.
“There has not been a single scientific model of agriculture’s warming effect that has been made publicly available.“Without warming based modelling, farmers have no ability to measure progress against the Paris Agree
Methane is the primary greenhouse gas produced by the agricultural sector, making up about half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions. While this is much higher than the 12.3% average across other countries, New Zealand produces enough food for 40 million people and is the most climate-efficient coun tries at doing so according to an AgResearch study.
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“Land owners have been sacrificing their productive land, that they pay rates on, to establish trees and plants to protect water ways and help sequester carbon at great expense to themselves – and now we are being told that doesn’t count.”Groundswell are calling it hypocrisy as other sectors can plant trees on pro ductive land to offset their emissions.“Theprimary motivation for taxing farm emissions is, in fact, to offset warming
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farm-level splitgas levy has recommendedbeenas an alternative way to tax agri cultural emissions outside of the emissions trading scheme.Thismeans agricultural emissions would be calcu lated and paid at the farm level, and the levy would have different rates for short- and long-lived gas emissions.“Anindustry-wide com mitment to a farm-level, split-gas pricing system is an important step on the journey to help farmers manage their emissions,” says AgResearch Senior Scientist Dr Robyn Dynes, who provided science ad vice to the commission.
ment.“This absence of an objec tive standard will allow the Government to force ever increasing emission reduc tions over time, regardless of how much farmers are doing to reduce warming.”
“I expect this recommen dation will be met with some disappointment from
“The Climate Change Commission and Ministry for the Environment have both independently con firmed to Groundswell NZ that the current emissions reduction targets have not
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The High Court’s judgment is pending and is expected to be delivered soon. It remains to be seen whether our judiciary will find, as the UK court did, that more needs to be done by the Government to meet its climate change obligations.
The New Zealand claim: does the Climate Commission’s emissions plan go far enough?
reached. The Court upheld the challenge, finding also that the Secretary had failed to provide a report containing explanations about how his policies would enable carbon budgets to be met.
zero target by 2050.
Why do these cases matter?
The lawyers for the claimants have hailed
The claimants, a group of NGOs, challenged the legality of the Strategy by way of judicial review, alleging that the Secretary of State had approved it without having enough information about how carbon budgets would be
the judgment as a victory for transparency and accountability in terms of government action to address climate change.
The UK High Court has ruled that the British government’s Net Zero Strategy breaches the Climate Change Act 2008. Meanwhile, the New Zealand High Court is expected to rule on a similar case, Simpson Grierson reports
The judicial review process is one of the most widely used tools in climate change litigation as claimants increasingly seek to hold governments to account in relation to their plans to meet emission reductions targets.
In February this year, the New Zealand High Court heard a challenge by Lawyers for Climate Action New Zealand (LCANZI) to the Climate Commission’s advice to the Government on emissions reduction.
We expect actions of these kinds to continue to grow in line with public concern about the effects of the climate crisis.
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While the factual basis for the UK and New Zealand cases is different, they both involve judicial review of decisions relevant to governmental strategy on climate change.
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t the heart of the case, coinciding with Britain’s hottest day on record, was the UK government’s Net Zero Strategy, which sets out the government’s policies and proposals for decarbonising all sectors of the UK economy to meet the net
LCANZI claims that the Commission’s calculations contain errors and that that its plan is insufficient to meet the targets required.
uckland Council was involved in a legal case against All Aboard Aotearoa (AAA), which asked for a judicial review of the Council Plan ning Committee’s deci sion to endorse Auckland Transport’s Regional Land Transport Plan (RLTP).
AAA argued that Auckland Transport and the Council acted unlawfully in adopt ing the plan, however the judge said the RLTP itself
step specifically to over come this problem.
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is not significantly incon sistent with the Climate Plan given that it expects to lead to a reduction in GHG emissions by 2031.
A CCO Review found that the Planning Committee had the right not to endorse the RLTP, yet they did not exercise this right.
The endorsement of an AT transport plan and the resulting court case proves Auckland Council’s climate plan is not worth the paper it is printed on
AAA tried to argue that the Planning Committee needed to give careful consideration to the impact of their decisions on the overall integrity of rele vant policies, however the Council claimed the Climate Plan was not relevant to the RLTP.What Council’s lawyers argued is that Auckland’s Climate Plan – which lays out how Auckland is going to decarbonise its systems for a sustainable and equi table future – is not some thing the Councillors need to consider when making decisions.GreaterAuckland says this severely undermines the Council’s extensive climate policy“Wouldwork.Council care to give the public a list of ‘real’
Climate goals need leadership and commitment
“Do the Councillors and Council Officers under stand that this is a crisis of democracy, and all these problems must be resolved urgently if Council wish to proceed with any credibil ity?”Greater Auckland says this case blows a hole through Auckland’s C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group commitments.“Romehasbeen burning while Council earnestly argued they have no power or“Thisresponsibility.year,we’ll be see ing lots of promises. But what we need is strong leadership, confident about tackling the enormous chal lenge of addressing climate change.”
The RLTP aims for a mere one percent reduction in transport emissions by 2031, conflicting with the 64 percent reduction required by the Council’s Te Tārukeā-Tāwhiri: Auckland’s Climate Plan.
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Auckland’s Climate Plan, Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri, was the culmination of years of community-wide advocacy and internal Council policy work. It was created via a democratic process that required commitment from the public in time, resource and effort, as well as ratepayer-funded Council resource.“AsCouncil argued the Councillors do not need to consider the impact of their decisions on the integrity of the Climate Plan, we can conclude that Council’s engagement processes lead to plans that are ignored anyway, so engaging is a poor use of our time,” Great er Auckland says.
The judge also found in favour of the Council’s argument that the Planning Committee had no power to direct Auckland Transport to change the RLTP, despite the CCO Review saying otherwise.TheCCO Review Inde pendent Panel found it was “wrong in principle” that the Council didn’t have this responsibility for approving the RLTP, and had estab lished the endorsement
plans, and another one of the ‘pretend’ plans that the Councillors will ignore when they make decisions? It would help if each consul tation could be tagged as ‘real’ and ‘pretend’ too, so we don’t have to waste time on pointless submissions.”
“Both aim to reduce GHG emissions, albeit at differ ent rates and by different methods.”According to the High Court judge, one percent is not “significantly inconsis tent” with 64 percent.
Capital’s climate action gains global recognition
very year, WWF rec ognises cities demon strating ambitious climate actions across the world through the OPCC. The mission of this compe tition is to create cities that enable people to thrive in balance with nature, now and in the future.
“As part of our work to be accountable to our targets, we do reporting every year to a global standard.
have a major part to play in the response to climate change.TheCouncil set a target to reduce emissions by more than half by 2030 and to become a net zero carbon capital by 2050.
are monitored were the key elements that helped Wel lington become a finalist.
The results of the chal lenge will be announced later in July. Keep an eye on the WWF website for more information.
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“There’s still lots more that we need to do, but this ac colade is something we can be proud of,” says Pip.
Since then, work has gained momentum with a growing Climate Action Response team, the devel opment of Te Atakura – First to Zero action plan, the implementation of the city’s bike network plan Paneke Pōneke, a new Climate and Sustainability Fund, and work on the Spatial and draft District Plans.
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“We do that alongside cit ies from over 50 countries around the world and we use a globally recognised platform called CDP-ICLEI. The data that we put into that is scrutinized by a pan el of Theexperts.”waythe city and cit izens have joined together on a climate action journey has also helped Wellington stand out, says Pip.
Up against 280 cities worldwide, Wellington has recently been recognised by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as a global finalist in its One Planet City Challenge (OPCC)
“So many things come together. There’s no one measure for saying that we are leading the way, it’s how all of these things fit together and the fact we’re assessed across all these metrics.
“What is our plan is for reducing waste? Because waste is one of the major sources of emissions. What are our plans for helping people choose active trans port rather than driving? Because transport is one of the biggest contributors to emissions. How will we help people think differently about what they consume?”
With over 280 cities from 50 countries in the running, Wellington has been named a global finalist, and is the only city nominated in Aotearoa.In2019,Wellington City Council declared a climate emergency, putting pro tection of the environment and climate change at the front and centre of its deci sion-making.Withcitiesresponsible for over 80 percent of emis sions globally, and the pop ulation expected to double to 6.5 billion by 2050, they
Collective, urgent action means Wellington is one step closer to reaching its net zero carbon goal.
View of the city with the sun setting behind the buildings.PipWheaton, from Wel lington City Council’s climate action team, says Wellington’s ambitious targets and the way results
An estimated USD97 tril lion in infrastructure invest ment is needed between now and 2040 to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, but investments are forecast to fall short by USD18 trillion.
used, reused, and redis tributed by anyone. Struc tured, standardised, and machine-readable open data is important because
pen data’ means data that is available in a convenient and modifiable form that can be freely
it enables interoperability. This is where different and diverse systems and or ganisations can easily work together.
How can we utilise open data infrastructure?in
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Open data is gaining traction in infrastructure planning, procurement, and delivery, Open Contracting Partnership’s Head of Infrastructure, Bernadine Fernz says
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Inefficiency linked to lack of data transparency
Furthermore, the Interna tional Monetary Fund states that, on average, 33% of a project’s budget merely
Many governments have adopted open data ap proaches, methodologies, and tools so that it is more transparent and account able. Globally, public pro curement spending reaches USD13 trillion annually. The scale of that expenditure means that transparency in public procurement is vital and all relevant information across the entire pro curement cycle should be disclosed.However, public contracts that are published openly account for only USD363 billion or 2.8% of the total market’s value. This lack of transparency makes it difficult to understand how public money is being spent, for whom and for what purpose.
Below are three examples on how using open data innovations and approach es helped to secure better infrastructure delivery.
A separate report by the Inter-American Develop ment Bank found that cost overruns account for 28% of the total infrastructure investment cost. A large part of these losses can be attributed to the lack of transparency and poor disclosure of data and information which in turn impedes efficiency and coordination.
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1. At a whole of govern ment level (not just infrastructure), the Republic of Korea’s KONEPS e-procure ment system provides an example of the time and cost efficiencies that open data can create. Implemen tation of KONEPS has rapidly reduced bid processing time from 30 hours to just two. It has also saved the government an estimated USD1.4 billion and 2002.itbillionapproximatelybusinessesUSD6.6incostssincewasintroducedin
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and the Open Contracting Data Standard can help us to make sense of infrastruc ture projects and contracts, transforming processes into open data that is stan dardised, machine-read able, and interoperable.
Next steps towards open data
Examples of how open data has improved infra structure delivery
3. The City of Buenos Aires in Argentina has developed a similar platform and realised similar results. Their BA Obras platform has improved inter-depart mental communica tion, reducing the time taken to collect and share information by 93%. This has broken down silos AmericasOtheravailableinformationment,stakeholderdelivery,oning,betterdepartments,betweenenablingdecision-makbetterreportinginfrastructureandimprovedengagewithprojectnoweasilytothepublic.citiesacrossthearelooking
Investments in infrastruc ture remain critical for economic development and growth, as well as addressing key challeng es of inclusion, resilience and responding to climate change. Yet to answer these challenges we need to make the most out of every project.Asshown in the exam ples above, open data and goal-driven leadsprocurementparticipatorypracticestobetteroutcomes in
A way forward Public formats.systems,teredsiloedoftencomplexprotractedbyprojectsinfrastructurearecharacterisedlargesumsofmoney,timeframes,andsupplychains;withfragmentedandinformationscatinmultipledifferentlocations,andAllofthisimpedesinvestment,competition,coordination,management,andmonitoring;whichinturnincreasestheriskoflossesfrominefficiency,mismanagement,orcorruption.Betterdataandmoreofit,publishedinatimelyfashionacrosstheentireinfrastructurelifecycle,isneededtoensureinfrastructuredeliversfortheeconomy,environment,andsociety.DatastandardsliketheOpenContractingforInfrastructureDataStandard
covers inefficiencies in the delivery process.
infrastructure projects. It can also develop coordi nated infrastructure project pipelines and enable more transparency and effi ciency in communicating project information to the infrastructure ecosystem. Increasing transparency through the process of open data and participation will help create and deliver more sustainable infrastruc ture projects for business, government, and societies around the world.
2. Through their disclo sure of turedataprojectsinfrastructureandcontractsontheInfrastrucAbiertaplatform,
to replicate the BA Obras platform to im prove their infrastruc ture delivery.
Source: Open Contracting Partnerships
the Government of Nuevo Leon in Mexico identified acrossreplicateGovernmentthesuccessinrencesreducingoutcomes,improvedtenderers.mationaggregationofcreasehasitoringcompetitionsignificantandmongainsTherebeena25%ininthenumberbiddersduetotheofinforforprospectiveThisledtotenderingincludingtheoccurofcorruptionprocurement.ItshasseenFederalMexicanseektotheplatformthecountry.
54 infRastRUctURenews.co.nz aUGUst - sePteMBeR 2022Value creation in the metaverse What’s the opportunity? Consumers and brands are already engaging billion$13 57% In 2021, venture capital metaversefundingprivate-equityandintothereached The real business of the virtual world of arecompaniesmetaverse-awaresaytheyadopters trillion~$5 By 2030, the value of the metaverse could reach… billion>$120+ In 2022 itmoremetaverseinvestmentalready,intothespaceisthandoublewhatwasinallof 2021 Top 5 activities consumers are excited about SocialShoppingTravelGamingEntertainment Top 5 enterprise use cases companies are implementing Marketing campaign or initiatives Learning andfordevelopmentemployees Meetings in the metaverse Events or Productconferencesdesignordigitaltwinning 59% of consumers are excited about transitioning their everyday activities to the metaverse
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But the pace of its de velopment will depend on multiple technological and user-experience factors, and is not limited to one platform, device, or even technology.Themetaverse’s tech nology stack has four core building blocks: content and experiences, platforms (such as game engines), infrastructure and hardware (including devices and net works), and enablers (such
The metaverse is still being defined, both literally and figuratively and McKinsey believes it is on track to be the next iteration of the internet
The report examines the metaverse’s building blocks, investment flows, and what is driving them, and how consumer and business behaviour is evolving, its potential economic impact, and actions leaders should consider to capture value.
he potential for the metaverse to un leash the next wave of digital disruption seems increasingly clear, with real-life benefits already emerging for early adopt ing users and companies, says McKinsey in a 77-page report which the company describes as the real busi ness of the virtual world.
McKinsey surveyed of more than 3,400 consum ers and executives and found significant excite ment about the potential of the Almostmetaverse.60percent of consumers using to day’s early version of the metaverse are excit ed about transitioning everyday activities to it, with connectivity among people the biggest driver, followed by the potential to explore digital worlds. Multiple factors are driv ing this investor enthusi asm, including ongoing technological advances across the infrastruc ture required to run the metaverse; demographic tailwinds; increasing ly consumer-led brand marketing and engage ment; and marketplaceincreasingreadiness as users explore today’s early version of the metaverse largely driven by gam ing (with some games boasting tens of millions of active players) with ap plications emerging that span socialising, fitness, commerce, virtual learn ing, and others.
Large technology com panies, venture capital, private equity, start-ups, and established brands are seeking to capitalise on the metaverse oppor tunity. They have already invested more than $120 billion in the metaverse in the first five months of 2022, more than double the $57 billion invested in all of 2021; a large part of it is driven by Microsoft’s planned acquisition of Activision for $69 billion. Large technology com panies are the ates.waytoandtrytivemetaversebybusinesstodigitalationleadingitsgenceweregreaterinvestors—andbiggesttoamuchextentthantheyforartificialintelliatasimilarstageinevolution.Industriescurrentlymetaverseadopalsoplantodedicatesignificantshareoftheirinvestmentbudgetsit.Some95percentofleaderssurveyedMcKinseyexpectthetohaveaposiimpactontheirinduswithinfiveto10years,61percentexpectitmoderatelychangethetheirindustryoper
The report says it has the potential to impact everything from employee engagement to the custom er experience, omnichannel sales and marketing, prod uct innovation and commu nityExaminingbuilding.the potential effect of the metaverse should be part of strategy discussions, with leaders accelerating their analysis of how it could drive a very different world within the nextManydecade.questions remain, the report says, includ ing how virtual worlds will be balanced with the physical world to ensure the metaverse is built in a responsible manner, how it can be a safe environment for consumers, how closely it will align with the “open” vision of the next iteration of the internet, and whether technology can advance quickly enough to build the metaverse of our imagina tion.
There continue to be questions around the lon gevity and potential of the metaverse, with an extreme view regarding it as merely a rebranded gaming plat form of little wider interest.
McKinsey disagrees. “It may seamlessly combine our digital and physical lives by featuring a sense of immersion, real-time interactivity, user agency, interoperability across plat forms and devices, the abil ity for thousands of people to interact simultaneously, and use cases spanning activities well beyond gam ing,” the report contends.
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ic virtual learning market, a $144 billion to $206 billion impact on the advertising market, and a $108 billion to $125 billion impact on the gaming market. These effects may mani
Business leaders should develop a strategic stance by defining metaverse goals and the role they want to play; testing, learning, and adopting by launching initial activities, monitoring results, and examining user behaviour; and preparing to scale by identifying necessary capabilities and
fest in very different ways across the value chain, however. Companies already leveraging the metaverse may build lasting competitive advantages.
as payment mechanisms andTensecurity).layersspan these components, providing the critical building blocks on which all metaverse ex periences are based. One primary question about the future evolution of the metaverse is the extent to which the interoperability of these elements can be advanced.Industries most likely to be impacted by the metaverse include consumer and re tail, media and telecommu nications, and healthcare. And those industries are also among those already undertaking metaverse initiatives.Whileestimates of the potential economic value of the metaverse vary widely, McKinsey’s “bottom-up view of consumer and en terprise use cases suggests it may generate up to $5 trillion in impact by 2030— equivalent to the size of the world’s third-largest econo my today, Japan.
embedding the metaverse in their operating model. They should also explore becoming metaverse users themselves. — The metaverse also poses urgent challenges that cut across firms, their employees, independent developers and content cre ators, governments, and, of course, consumers.
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The metaverse seems to be whatever people’s imaginations dream it to be. It remains difficult to define even though the term has been in circulation for decades
Part of the workforce will need to be reskilled to take advantage of it rather than compete with it, and cities and countries serious about establishing themselves as hubs for its development will need to join the global competition to attract talent andTheinvestment.metaverse also has obvious societal implica tions. A variety of stake holders will need to define a road map toward an ethical, safe, and inclusive metaverse andandcompliance,curity,includingnecessaryGuidelinesexperience.mayalsobearoundissuesdataprivacy,seethicsandregulatoryphysicalhealthsafety,sustainability,equityandfairness.
“We’ll be able to feel pres ent—like we’re right there with people no matter how far apart we actually are.”
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“The metaverse will be the successor to the mobile internet,” Mark Zucker berg said last November as he announced that the
About the only thing we do know, according to the report, is that, beyond the hype, the metaverse is real, potentially revolutionary, and has the makings of a significant opportunity. And the metaverse does not replace real life.
Second, despite many different potential defini tions of the metaverse, it has several includeofhavebasic,characteristics.foundationalAtitsmostthemetaversewillthreefeatures:•asenseofimmersion•real-timeinteractivity•useragencyUltimately,thefullvisionthemetaversewillalsointeroperabili
Defining the undefined: What is the metaverse, really?
name of the company he cofounded, Facebook, was changing to Meta.
in the coming decade, given its potential to enable new business models, products, and services, and act as an engagement channel for both business-to-consumer and $270impactestimatesrealised.adependingonUS$2marketestimatestionsbelievesdustry,metaversepurposes,”business-to-businessthereportsays.ThepotentialimpactofthevariesbyinalthoughMcKinseyitholdsimplicaforall.Thecompanyitmayhaveaimpactofbetweentrillionand$2.6trillione-commerceby2030,onwhetherbaseorupsidecaseisSimilarly,thecompanyittohaveanof$180billiontobillionontheacadem
that seamlessly combines our digital and physical lives.How it will eventually develop remains to be seen. While the definition is still fluid—and will likely con tinue to be for some time— the consensus view is the metaverse, like the internet, becomes something we are immersed in, rather than something we just view.
t is a gaming platform, a virtual retail destination, a training tool, an ad vertising channel, a digital classroom, a new gateway to digital experiences.
Our working definition po sitions the metaverse as the next iteration of the internet
Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda told McKinsey that “we’re trying to not define the metaverse so rigidly that it limits the imagination ofTwocreators.”things are clear. First, the development of the metaverse is gaining momentum as billions of dollars are invested.
Gaming continues to seed the emerging (or “proto”) metaverse, and nongaming use cases emerge for both businesses and consumers.
“It is shaping up to be the biggest new growth oppor tunity for several industries
ty across platforms and devices, concurrency with thousands of people inter acting simultaneously and it will use spanning human activity well beyond gaming
A big question is whether these building blocks and the layers they comprise
Yet for a concept now three decades old—and something increasingly used by consumers and businesses alike, whether they understand the term or not—there are several persistent misconceptions about the metaverse. The actual metaverse
Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One was re leased three years earlier, based on a novel released inAnd2011.the concept of the metaverse far predates that—the term was first coined in Neal Stephen son’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, and versions of what’s now the metaverse have evolved for almost half a century.
does not represent a choice between the virtual and the real worlds. The best, superior version of the metaverse will complement rather than compete with the real world, enhancing our real-life experiences rather than supplanting them.“Ithink about the metaverse as a continuation of where tech was headed prior to COVID-19,” Nian tic CEO John Hanke told McKinsey.
The metaverse is the en visioned end state—incor porating all digital worlds alongside the physical world, with interoperability between them all.
As it exists now, metaverse users are spread across multiple platforms such as Decentraland, Fort nite, Minecraft, Roblox, and The Sandbox
there’s an intersection between those two. But when I think about a real world vision of the metaverse, it’s really a union of those where they become much more deeply fused; where there’s a digi tal extension to everything that’s real.”
Separating fact from fiction
will combine to form the metaverse, at least as many envision it.
“We also anticipate the development and scaling of standards and protocols to enable interoperability.”
mportantly, capital is flowing into this tech nology stack, across 10 component “layers” that constitute the physical and operational structure on which all metaverse expe riences are based—these range from back-end tech enablers (such as engines,
While incumbents are always at risk of being dis rupted by innovation there are questions about the ability of current technology to result in a fully realized metaverse, particularly when it comes to issues of speed and capacity.
blockchain, and hardware devices) to platforms and virtual worlds.
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“We have Instagram. We have email. We have mes saging. And then there’s our real-life friends; the real-life activity that we’re partici pating“Sometimesin.
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The real business of the virtual world pervasive seems clear. Yet that does not mean the metaverse is guaranteed to develop into a melding of our physical and digital lives.
Having explored what the metaverse is not, the McKinsey report sets out to define what it actually is. As a concept, the metaverse can be broken down into four core building blocks: content and experiences, platforms, infrastructure and hardware and enablers.
The building blocks of the metaverse
There’s also the issue of
There are not multiple metaverses. Saying there are is like saying there are many internets.
The metaverse captured universal headlines for the first time after Face book’s name change last year.Yet
of downloading an app and clicking a lot of permis sions—it’s a pretty large amount of friction to just try something,” Niantic’s Hanke says.“Ifyou think about the early days of the web, it was
them.“That sort of allowed the whole ecosystem to sort of bootstrap and grow. And I think we need that kind of experience for real-world AR, real-world metaverse,” he says.
“If the metaverse follows the app-store model that we have today, a person has to go through the trouble
the user experience and how that may help—or hurt—the metaverse’s adop tion and development.
surfing around, checking out 20 different websites at a session. They weren’t things that kept your atten tion for hours and hours or that you were loyal to for years, but it was very easy for you to discover and try
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completed by our certified rigger, the client can then commence works above the safe area of the net.
“All of our safety docu mentation has been pro duced in such a format as to ensure that it comple ments the overall site safety policy and manual that the Principal Contractor is required to establish on all projects,” says Daly.
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nets, with the results being collated and analysed to effectively confirm that our safety fall arrest system works,” says Daly.
“This enables PCBU’s to discharge their responsibili ties in regard to the require ments of the in the use of a system that is without risk to the health and safety of it’sWhenworkforce.”thenets have been installed and inspected by a Safety Nets NZ team and a handover certificate
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Southern Cross Health Insurance chief medical officer, Dr Stephen Child, said getting as many New Zealanders as possible vaccinated against influenza will be critical this season.That’s why the health insurer offers its members a free flu jab.
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Kyle said it was important to be prepared as New Zealand’s isolation from the rest of the world will likely mean more people will get sick due to the lack of exposure.Promoting wellness, getting immunised and encouraging the workforce to “get off the couch and away from screens” while
Often people report feeling fatigued for a few weeks after that, but it may take weeks to start feeling better if you’re unvaccinated and out of shape.”
Health experts across New Zealand are warning Kiwis to prepare for what could be a severe flu season this year.
Dr Child said last year’s Respiratory Syncytial Virus
outbreak following the short opening of the border between New Zealand and Australia shows the pressure such immunity gaps can place on the healthMeanwhile,system.Site Safe
The prospect of a severe flu season, adding to a construction industry already hampered by labour and supply shortages, stresses how it is more important than ever to
Keeping your worksite safe this flu season
And there is reason to be concerned. The flu usually infects around one in four Kiwis annually - mainly between May and October.
“On average, those [who] get the flu are sick for five to 10 days, which could be two weeks off work.
also encouraging them to stay away from work when they’re symptomatic was a “huge step in the right direction” for mitigating the risks of illnesses at work.
“New Zealand’s strict border controls for managing the spread of Covid-19 mean the influenza virus has largely been absent for a significant period of time, which creates an immunity gap. The most effective tool we have for closing this gap is the influenza vaccine.”
recently formed a Covid-19 protocols document in collaboration with an industry working group of health and safety experts as a go-to guide for the industry.Itreflects the realities of managing Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses on-site and highlights some key actions that can help keep your workforce healthy.Youcan find the complete industry protocols guide on the Site Safe website under guides and resources.
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safeguard yourself and others on site.
Site Safe training advisor Kyle O’Keefe said the best way those on-site can prepare for a severe flu season is to get vaccinated and stay fit and active.
was already circulating in New Zealand, with flu rates plummeting 99 per cent that year, basically ridding the country of the influenza virus.Now with relaxing restrictions and New Zealand reopening to the world, health experts are concerned that two years of living in a flu-free environment may have left our immunity levels vulnerable to the virus.
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he position wasyearsbeingfirstarchitecturalWorksheadedArchitect,GovernmentofwhichtheMinistryofandDevelopment’sdivision,wascreatedin1909beforedisestablished20agowhentheministryclosed.TheUnitedKingdomhasrecentlyappointedanationalheadofarchitecturetoraisethedesignstandardsofnewhousingschemesandsixAustralianstateshavetheirownGovernmentArchitect
Is it time to reinstate the Government Architect?
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(Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) bill will require councils to allow townhouses of up to three storeys with up to three dwellings on almost all residential sites in Auckland, beeneightdwellingscouldnewneedandChristchurch,Wellington,Tauranga,Hamilton–withouttheforresourceconsent.Modellingshowsthemediumdensityrulesseeover100,000newbuiltinthenextyears.WhileNewZealandhasthroughperiods
to provide strategic advice to the government about architecture and urban design.Sloan Architects founder Patrick Sloan says historically the Government Architect’s role was to advise government on all aspects of architecture, building and the built environment, including policies for the design of and expenditure Resourceoperatedgovernment-fundedonandfacilities.FromAugust,theManagement
of rapid previously,intensificationtheprospect of adding thousands of three level residential dwellings in our major centres is not without risk, Sloan says.
With New Zealand cities about to enter a period of rapid housing intensification, an international architect and urban planning specialist is calling for the reinstatement of a century-old government agency
The re-establishment of the Government Architect role would help inform government decision makers on the potential wide-spread design impact of regulatory changes which affect housing and urban planning – such as the new ManagementResourcebill.“Withinthecoming weeks
“This is not to propose a replication of Victorian-era design but more to suggest that a cohesive strategy evolves to ensure the intensification of our cities realises the opportunity we
have to re-make the way we experience the urban environment,” he says.
There are some fantastic examples around the world of how high-density, high-quality design outcomes can be achieved while also meeting the financial objectives of the development process, Sloan“Theresays.isa lot developer-drivenofwork here in New Zealand that looks for the fastest way to the finish line and the pursuit of profit – design outcomes are too often generated on a spreadsheet as opposed to resulting from a thoughtful and engaged design
“The loss of our heritage buildings correlates to the loss of an urban identity.
“Thereprocess.aresome truly innovative ways of developing futurelegacyhousinginhaveofandbalancesprocess,sophisticatedaofhousesimilarofGovernmentfallgrowreinventiondevelopmentapproachofkindcomepeopleprofitaboutthatincommunitiesresidentialnowemergingAustraliaforexample,arenolongerpurelytherealisationof–modelswhereandcommunitiesfirst.Promotingaoffearlessdisruptionthe‘businessasusual’tourban,alongsideaofthewayweourcities,couldalsowithintheremitoftheArchitect.”“Youusethesamevolumebuildingmaterials,alandareaandyouasimilarnumberpeople.It’sallaboutmorethoughtfulanddesignmorechecksandfordevelopersanacknowledgementtheobligationswealltodothingswell.“Thelastthingwewantourrushtoresolvethecrisisistocreateaofdesignissuesforgenerations,”hesays.
Sloan cites an example in his Mount aneighbourhoodEdenwhere100-year-oldvillaon a prominent corner site was demolished and replaced by four terrace houses.
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Density and intensification don’t have to result in poor design outcomes. A similar amount of time is spent on high quality design as is spent on poor design.
“The new development is built right up to the boundary lines and has no redeeming design features or architectural character at all. It’s a travesty that developments like this can proceed unchecked – it’ll be there for decades and it’s a sign of what’s to come.
“One of the foundations of urban identity is a connection to our past. Larger, higher density cities often have more heritage buildings distributed over greater areas – they provide deeper roots and broader connectivity to a city’s past and consequently have a more central role in urban growth.“People connect with architectural heritage – it’s somehow reassuring. The only real design history we have in our largest urban centre, Auckland, is Victorian era houses that have been around for 110 years or so.
we will see the start of an urban ‘gold rush’, with property developers able to take advantage of new housing density rules,” Sloan says.
“Many of these are disappearing and will be replaced with less than ordinary houses and apartment buildings, as the new Resource Management bill comes into play.
“The ability to intensify vertically in suburban areas could see sites that may have been previously uneconomic to develop become viable to a developer.“Atthesame time record costs for building materials, and rising interest rates will incentivise developers to build at speed and to maximise profit.
“Aside from the negative impact on an aesthetic level, the impact on neighbouring sites of this type of significantdevelopmentintensivepresentsrisksaround loss of privacy and access to daylight.“Insimple terms that means a winter,”higherheatingthehouse.getpropertytimesafternoonboundarytownhousethree-levelonyourwesternwillcastalateshadowthreefurtherintoyourthanyouwouldfromasinglelevel“Theknock-onofthisislesssunlightyouhaveyourhomemeansheatingbillsinthehesays.
“The risk is that we will see communitiesneighbourhoodscontributionthatdevelopmentssubstandardproceedmakelittleornototheandthatweall live in.“While major urban projects already have a non-statutory body providing design oversight, there needs to be a realisation that the combination of thousands of small to midsize developments are as significant a planning concern as larger, individual projects.“Thereare so many areas ripe for positive change – policy advisory, national design initiatives, deeper engagement on climate change and a wider elevation of design awareness. What we need is visionary thinking and design leadership that looks decades into the future –this would come from the Government Sloanofrealm,ourimpactalsoappearslimitedArchitecturalArchitect.”meritisn’ttohowabuildingorperforms–it’sabouthavingapositiveonthecharacterofstreetsandthepublicandthesafeguardingasharedurbanidentity,says.
As a society people don’t connect with characterless buildings in the same way they do with those of historical value.
Having to rely on tradition al construction practices involving 2D drawings and decentralised project details can be very limiting. Think of all the data that starts rolling in from day one. And it continues to accumulate when the completed project has been handed over to the owner’s operations and facility management team. It can be somewhat of a challenge, not to mention overwhelming, to track and understand everything.
— can be leveraged again and again throughout the project’s construction and beyond from within its own common data environment (CDE).Thekey is to enter all that data into the BIM model during the estimate phase so it can serve as an interactive reference going forward. That’s when it becomes the foundation
for data-driven decision making. Based on the mod el-linked data, the owner, contractors and other stakeholders can evaluate and agree on the most appropriate material and equipment options to invest in for the project based on cost effectiveness, durabil ity and/or repair record, for example.
Being able to access and interact with all your proj ects’ constantly updated details at such a granular level is the kind of trans parency that sets the stage for better understanding of the build and more effec tive communication among project teams, including those disciplines that may not normally have had a seat at the design table.
been a mainstay in archi tecture circles within the industry. But it’s only really gained ground in actu al construction over the last two decades. If your company is among these near-future BIM adopters, what impact can you antici pate for your projects?
walk through a model for a realistic view of the flow, the aesthetics, the space, and even any design mistakes to fix on the spot.
The BIM process also acts like a risk mitigation tool enabling you to dis cover structural and spatial interferences through automated clash detection. Catching these early en ables you to correct them at the design stage — before they’ve had a chance to be built into the structure, which would set the stage
for change orders for any thing from minor alterations to full-on budget-eating rework down the road. You preserve not only the original cost and schedule estimate, but your profit margin.Maximising design phase efficiency with BIM means being confident that those choices you make for your future capital projects are cost-efficient with regard to the construction estimate and to future maintenance after handoff.
Interactive data to foster interactive teams
How BIM Will Impact Your InfrastructureFutureProjects
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Financial efficiency with better use of capital project data
Buy that’s where BIM can help. What often makes it stand out is the BIM model’s ability to link directly to all the details associated with each individual element within it, from the smallest nail to the largest volume of concrete. Those include all usable and actionable data, including size, current cost, replacement value, lifespan, warranty information and more. These specific details — or project intelligence
or nearly 40 years, building modellinginformation(BIM)has
Building your project through BIM before real
With all the data linked from the model housed in BIM’s CDE, it serves as a central hub where every one can interact with the wealth of information it con tains. Teams can interact with each other — sharing updated models, asking and answering questions, suggesting modification ideas, reviewing solutions to problems oftentimes before they occur.
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a digital database. Just as valuable are the specialist skills and experience gained by School of Architecture students in the Digitalisation of Heritage elective course.
numerous, says the project leader, Associate Professor Renata Jadresin Milic from Unitec’s School of Architecture.ManyofNew Zealand’s landmark and heritage buildings have been abandoned or become so degraded as to be officially deemed dangerous. A number are earmarked for demolition or recurring sale, sheThesays.use of modern digital technologies facilitate and improve conservation practices and processes and enable the creation of
“This work is cuttingedge and important for all Aotearoa New Zealand heritage, especially the preservation of Māori
architectural heritage, which is Grbic,wasourworld(knowledgevulnerable.particularly“VisionMātaurangafromaMaoriview)isrelevanttoproject,andadvicereceivedfromVictoraKaihautū(leader) in Unitec’s Maia Māori Centre. Our colleague Maia Ratana, lecturer at the School of Architecture and researcher at Ngā Wai a te Tui – Māori and Indigenous Research Centre, has been focusing on the impact of 3D digital modelling on tikanga Māori and Māori buildings.”
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Milic says the research is novel as it allows the entire process of decay to be recorded and examined, something that heritage research has never been able to achieve before.
he project involves the (usingscanningLiDar and tooinimportantstrengtheningwillAlthoughisCarringtonbuildingAlbertOne3D-modellingtechnology)PhotogrammetryandofBuildingontheUnitecMtcampus,aheritagethatwasformerlyHospitalandcurrentlyunoccupied.BuildingOnerequireearthquake-work,itisthatitisnotleftanabandonedstateforlong.Theoutcomesandbenefitsoftheprojectare
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A 3D-modelling project focused on capturing historical and heritage buildings sets a new bar for the use of digital technologies in domestic conservation practice
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This work for Building One will be shared with the endusers: Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, and the community body, Point Chevalier Social Enterprise Trust.“We brought in industry partners to consult and to provide the necessary equipment, software and expertise for this delicate work,” Milic says.
“I have worked in the survey, GIS and digital spatial industry for over 30 years and I believe this is the most advanced and unique course in New Zealand for the digital capture and 3D-modelling of heritage architecture,” he says.“To my knowledge it is the only elective course that offers this level of digital
with surveyors, architects and engineers from the construction sector. It is supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and Auckland Council’s Heritage Unit.
Milic says the practice of dealing with heritage buildings does not include modern digital technology as much as it could and should.“Atthe same time, due to the fast growth of our cities and towns, our heritage is disappearing. Greater use of modern digital technologies in domestic conservation practice will help ensure preventive protection of architectural heritage through digitisation and documentation.”MalcolmArchbold of Survis Limited contributed
capture and 3D modelling of heritage buildings in New Zealand.“Theskills and knowledge acquired by students in this course are also highly applicable to other areas of architectural design, building and construction, in New Zealand and internationally.“Thestudents learn the theory of digital capture and 3D modelling from New Zealand industry experts, plus the experience of hands-on practical exercises in laser scanning and 3D computer modelling
“With their help, the complete record of Building One was taken over eight days between 2020 and 2021, and included autonomous aerial drone surveying, as well as ground based teams with terrestrial LiDar scanners working through the interior of the building. All of which was culminated in a high fidelity 3D survey model called a ‘point cloud’ which serves as a visual snapshot and basis for further modelling work.”
significantly to the project with drone surveying that captured the overall volume of the building and the roof, and taught students the theory and practical application of drone work.
using the latest industry tools and software.
Milic says Building One, as it is known now, was one of the largest public buildings in the colony at the time of construction.“Itisaniconic building, a notable example of late beenstates.inheritageapreservedbeprojectadvancessystems,currentofrisktreasuresmanyoverhavewithandsacredgardens,cities,comparableyoungculturalclassification.highestinChurchand1886-builtsuchbuildings.”seendeteriorate,whateverisofandlovesbuilding.aslistsconstruction.periodselementsandinstitutionalnineteenth-centuryarchitecture,itstillhasintactfromeachoftheofmajorbuilding“HeritageNewZealandtheoriginalbuildingaCategory1heritageThecommunityit,wantstouseitbringitintotheheartthecommunity.ThisimportantbecauseisnotusedwillaswehavewithotherheritageTheseincludebuildingsasGreyLynn’sCarlileHouse;StDavid’sPresbyterianinGrafton,built1927andsubjecttothepossibleheritageAlthoughNewZealand’sheritageisrelativelyincomparisontoEuropeanitssites,landscapes,monuments,places,buildings,structuresareassetsdistinctivevaluethatdevelopedmeaningtime.Atpresent,ofthesenationalareatseriousofbeinglostbecausetheinadequacyofheritageprotectionsaysMilic.Thetechnologicalusedintheallowbuildingstoaccuratelyrecordedandindigitalform,criticaladvantagewithbuildingsthatareactivelydeterioratedTheUnitecprojecthasdoneinpartnership
“This means that students have the skills and knowledge required by the industry when they graduate and enter the workforce,” he says.
Industry partner and course educator, Thomas Reutlinger says educating students about industry practice was a key part of the project.
“A point cloud is ultimately an extremely high-tech and commercially valuable asset, so being able to get that in students’ hands and teaching them to work
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• The digital documentation provides an opportunity to capture the unique character of the building at this point in its extended history and will create an insightful record as the building enters a transitional phase.
virtual reconstruction of the building while applying higher-level industry practices. We will have a 3D model of the whole building in the next few months, with the heritage elements preserved in full detail.”
not have noticed this room. “This is what digital technology helps to achieve; it helps us to analyse information in a whole new way, that could otherwise have been missed.”Bythe end of this year, the digital archive of two prominent heritage buildings and sites will be completed, and a project website established. Results will be published in academic journals and disseminated more widely in the community, government institutions, and between andprofessionals,heritageacademicsindustry.
• The Unitec School of Architecture research project aims to protect vulnerable (in the process of degradation or transformation), and abandoned historical heritage by two means: a) a multimedia presentation and b) an information tool for preservation, restoration, maintenance and evaluation.
• To aid in students learning techniques and history of the built environment.
• The Unitec School of Architecture project aims to set up an information tool for preservation, restoration, and maintenance, and to have academic and practical value in advancing knowledge about heritage in New Zealand:
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• The information tool includes a digital recording of the Unitec’s Building One. This heritage building is an iconic landmark of the Point Chevalier area and has a rich history dating back to 1865, being formerly known as the Carrington Psychiatric Hospital before being acquired and adapted for educational purposes by Unitec. Today, Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau and the Crown (through the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development) are development partners in the residential development of the site, and intend to make decisions on the future adaptive reuse and preservation of Building One in due course.
• To be useful for the end-user.
• To provide a means for establishing New Zealand’s current state of knowledge in the practice of archiving heritage buildings and their possible adaptive reuse opportunities.
Unitec School of Architecture student Jenny Short says she discovered
a small room located underneath the stairs on the edge of her model. “Initially, I did not think anything was there, however, after further investigation, I found a small room by manipulating my view of the point cloud. If I was walking around the building, I would most likely
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he new seismic risk guidance has been developed by MBIE to help building owners and users understand seismic assessments and provide them with the tools to make informed and risk-based decisions about continuing to occupy buildings with low seismic failurepotentialdifferentrelativesays.dangerous,”ratingsbuildingsinpredictorlowbuildinglegalandStandardhowmisconceptionsaddresseswithinserviceswellplanningthroughappropriatelybuildingsseismicallyriskhighlightsDrplacemeasurestheearthquake,consequencesearthquakethethedecisionsbuildingEngineering.BuildingGittings,probability,”earthquakesbusiness-as-usual“Comparedratings.tomostrisks,arelowsaysDrDaveMBIE’sManagerPerformanceand“It’simportantthatoccupancyconsiderlikelihoodofanpotentialofanalongwithtemporarymitigationthatcanbeputintoreducerisk,”saysGittings.Thenewguidancehowlifesafetytobuildingusersinvulnerablecanbemitigatedemergencyandtrainingasasrestrainingplant,andcontentsthebuilding.TheguidancesomecommonaroundtheNewBuildingshouldbeusedclarifiesthereisnorequirementtocloseabasedsolelyonaNBSrating.“AnNBSratingisnotaofbuildingfailureanearthquakeandwithlowNBSarenotimminentlyDrGittings“Understandingthevulnerabilityofbuildingelements,consequencesofoftheseelements,
building within a specific timeframe. Buildings may continue to be occupied during this time.
remediation work well planned so that the needs of our communities can continue to be met and the risks managed, while we work to reduce the impact of future earthquakes,” says Dr Gittings.
Most seismically vulnerable buildings are not imminently dangerous and can remain occupied while seismic remediation work is planned, funded and undertaken, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) advises
and options to mitigate that risk, is more important than the overall NBS rating for a building.”Underthe Earthquakeprone Building System, buildings with a %NBS rating of less than 34 per cent are determined to be earthquake-prone and building owners are required to remediate their
remainbuildingsEarthquake-pronecanoccupied
Read the MBIE guidance here.
“Seismic assessments are an important tool to encourage strengthening of vulnerable buildings and improve of our building stock, but it’s important that decisions on these are well informed and
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A new generation of Expanded Polystyrene Board insulation has
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greater.Withseveral thicknesses available SLABX200 ranges from an R-Value of R 1.5 at 50mm thickness through to an impressive R6.0 at 200mm homes.ensureaboveofferTherefore,thickness.allthicknessesR-Valuesoverandthestandardstohealthyandefficient
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So they set about to develop a product with New Zealand residential and commercial projects in mind.The durable nature of SLABX200 means that it won’t degrade over time, keeping its integrity for the life of the structure.
of SLABX200 to ensure it meets EXPOL’s high specifications.technical
Slab insulation is import ant not only to save on en ergy bills for future owners and tenants, but also to improveInsulationcomfort.willreduce heat loss and make the slab easier to heat. It offers a layer of projection against moisture and will provide a thermal mass to regulate temperatures.Ifembedded floor heating is incorporated in a con crete slab-on-ground, the slab must be insulated so that heat from the slab is delivered up into the space above and not lost to the exterior and ground below.
Due to the lightweight nature of Expanded Poly styrene the product is also easy to handle and install making quick work of slab insulation on site.
Wayne told us that due to its compressive strength rating of 200Kpa there is no comparable product on the market. He states “SLABX200 is specifically designed for insulating concrete slabs.
It has a rating of 200kpa at 10 percent compression or 20 ton per square meter.
How does this prod uct compare to Healthy Homes standards?
arrivedIf you’d like to learn more about the SLABX200 product, the team at EXPOL are happy to have a chat. Visit their website on www.expol.co.nz or give the Technical Manager at call on 0800 86 33 73.
How does this product work in my sustainable building project?
Expanded Polystyrene offers great eco credentials and at the end of a prod ucts life it can be turned into other EXPOL products.
Its high performance specs are designed to give Engineer’s peace of mind so that they can recom mend this product with 100 percent confidence”.
The high performance of the SLABX product also ensures that your building project is sustainable to heat and cool and there fore leading to less energy consumption over the life of the building.
SLABX200 delivers the ultimate high performance: compressive strength 200kPa @ 10% deformation Insulation Values water handle thicknesses from 50mm to 600mm
SLABX200 waste is actively recycled into other EXPOL products
Specifically engineered for residential and commercial projects, its high performance gives engineers and specifiers peace of mind while increasing the thermal performance of a building.
SLABX200 - the product of choice for specifiers and the construction industry.
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It delivers an uncompromised compressive strength of 200kPa @ 10% deformation and exceptional Insulation Values.
Sheet Sizes Thickness (mm) R-Value EXPOL 50mm R 1.5 SLABX200 75mm R 2.2 2400 x 1200 100mm R 3.0 150mm R 4.5 200mm R 6.0 Other thickness available HIGH PERFORMANCE 200kPa SLABCONCRETEINSULATIONRATEDFORSLABS200 EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE BOARD Guaranteed Performance Learn more about SLABX200 visit www.expol.co.nz Call or email our Technical Manager; T: 0800 86 33 73 or E: tech@expol.co.nz 200 k P DEFORMATIONSTRENGTHa@10%3.0R-VALUE @100 mm NEW GENERATION INFNOV21
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SLABX200’s durable nature means it will not degrade over time, keeping its integrity for the life of the structure.
SLABX200 is EXPOL’s new generation high performance Expanded Polystyrene Board specifically designed to deliver high compressive strength and improve insulation under concrete slabs.
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one aspect of the digital transformation journey that almost all organisations are going through. While digital transformation enables organisations to increase
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Almost every large building has systems to control and monitor power and lighting, temperature and ventilation, elevators and more, known collectively as Building Management Systems, Claroty ANZ Regional Director Lani Refiti says
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were siloed with their own control facilities, connected over separate dedicated Increasingly,networks.BMSare being integrated and connected to the IT systems used for business management and administration.Furthermore, with the Internet of Things (IoT) gathering strong momentum over the last decade, the number of ‘smart buildings’ has grown significantly, which require far more monitoring and control devices than their older, simpler counterparts. The number of IoT devices installed globally for building monitoring and management was estimated at 1.7 billion at the end of 2020 and is forecast to exceed three billion by 2025.The interconnection of BMS with IT systems is just
When any BMS is connected to the internet, it becomes potentially accessible to a host of cyber criminals who seek to cause disruption or steal
istorically, SystemsManagementBuilding(BMS)
efficiency, gain insights into their operations and leverage these gains for competitive advantage, it also brings some challenges.
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• Many BMS rely on legacy software that is rarely, if ever, patched to remove password.suchaaccessanrelativelymeansvulnerabilities.securityThisitisofteneasyforattackertogainbyperformingsimpleaction,asresettinga
• The isolationsecure-by-nature of legacy BMS has created a culture of complacency among technical staff who routinely verypasswordsshare(orcreateweakpasswords).
challenging to keep a theseinventorycomprehensiveofallofdevicesand the versions of software they operate. It’s even harder to ensure every one of these devices is secure and free from securityensurechallenges,solutionsThankfully,attackanotheraccesseverypurposes,ongoingtorequirevendorsFurthermore,vulnerabilities.allthegenerallyremoteaccesstheirproductsformanagementmeaningoneofthesechannelsispotentialvector.therearetoeachofthesewhichcanaveryhighlevelofforanyBMS.
It is essential to have a comprehensive inventory of any BMS in order to secure it. This involves knowing exactly how many connected devices sit on the network and the communication paths between them. There are a number of network mapping and asset discovery solutions on the market, which can automatically gather and analyse details of every device within the BMS, no matter their make or model, and maintain an updated list.
data for commercial gain. Unfortunately, BMS can often be an easy target for bad actors: thanks to their long history of isolation, many BMS do not incorporate the security features that are common in modern IT systems and hospitals.environmentalsystemanotherstateproductioninenvironmentalbycompetitor’scouldAndataopportunitiesofferslegacysystemtheexploitedransomware,notoriouswereservicescriticalnames.amongWinterinstalledTheworldairconofestimatedthethentheweaknesscustomersinformationtheablenetwork.wasmonitoringthroughTargetexample,devices.Inonehigh-profileUSretailchainwashackeditsairconditioningsystemthatconnectedtotheITTheattackerwastogainaccesstocreditanddebitcardof40millionbyexploitingainthesecurityofairconsystem,whichprovidedagatewaytorestoftheITnetwork.Researcherssubsequentlythereweretensthousandsofsimilarsystemsaroundthethatwerevulnerable.listincludedsystemsforthe2014SochiOlympicsarena,othernotableIn2017,thousandsofsystemsandworldwideshutdownbytheWannaCrywhichavulnerabilityinWindows7operatingwidelyusedinmanyBMS.CompromisingaBMSbadactorsmorethanjustexfiltrationforransom.unscrupulousplayerseektodisruptaproductiontamperingwithcontrolstheirfactoryorotherfacility.Anation-attackercoulddisruptnation’shealthcarebytamperingwithcontrolsin
Step 1 – Create a map of the network and all connected devices.
The multitude of tools used to remotely access BMS creates a tempting invitation for attackers. Today, it’s possible to implement a single comprehensive remote access solution tailored for BMS, which can serve the needs of both building management and device vendors for regular monitoring, management and updating.
The transformation of old-world BMS into smart building systems and their integration with IT networks is ongoing and inevitable. It is therefore essential that facility managers pay greater attention to and devote more appropriate resources to BMS security.
There are several reasons why today’s BMS are more vulnerable to cyber attacks than IT systems:
Step 4 – Detect and respond to threats.
Four-step guide to securing your BMS
Step 3 – Provide secure access.remote
• The typical BMS for a large facility today is often very complex with many devices from different vendors. It is quite
In short, BMS require robust security measures that protect the critical functions they serve and prevent an organisation’s wider IT systems from being compromised.
Why is protecting BMS more difficult than IT systems?
In today’s smart buildings, each BMS function is part of an integrated system that is connected to the internet. This makes the potential impact of any compromise much greater.
Knowing what devices are on the network is only the first stage of securing a BMS; the next step is assessing the security risk each one presents. Fortunately, software is
• Once upon a time, BMS were functionspecific and isolated: the system controlling air conditioning, for example, was separated from the one used for access management.
available that can automate this task. Some more sophisticated tools will also offer guidance on how to remediate any of the security weaknesses detected.
Step 2 – Know your risk level.
Sooner or later an attacker is likely to get through even the best BMS defences. It’s imperative to detect a breach as early as possible and take appropriate action to minimise damage. This requires tools that can constantly monitor the entire BMS for any suspicious activity and issue the appropriate alerts to technical staff and management. There are many tools available to do this, and some suppliers also supplement these with human services: investigation, risk assessment, incident investigation and response.
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he team was forged by three friends working in the in dustry who realised that the key thing stressed building managers, business owners and landlords needed was to make a single call and get a reliable and qualified support team that would cover any aspect of facili ties
Having worked in the industry for many years, three friends, Paul Schoch, Robyn Schoch and Andrew Chan realised that by combining their skills, they could create a company unlike any other
The success of Rapid Facility Services is driven by a team that combines experience, commitment and a professional skillset that covers every aspect of facilities management with personal service
Themanagement.Rapidtrioset down a business philosophy that “we will do what others can’t or won’t do “ and set about assembling a high ly trained, efficient and safety-conscious team of professionals who get the job done right, the first time.
Today that service stretches from food manu facturers’ audit cleaning, all aspects of industrial clean ing, painting, building and floor safety management to anti-microbial and moss
Team members Darren, Brandon and Akeli
and mould treatments to prevent surface damage to roofs, ceilings, walls, floors and specialised equipment.
As yet there hasn’t been an abnormally large rise in new listings flows, but this is certainly a risk we’re keeping an eye on as financing costs continue to increase and the returns on
The economy remains a little fragile, net migration could stay relatively
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and the other 80% is household equity.
The sharp post-COVID upswing in values has now given way to a firm correction, and the falls already seen to date have been spread across most geographical areas and price brackets. It’s possible the national average property value will ultimately drop by -10% to -15% by the middle of 2023, which broadly suggests we’re potentially halfway through this correction in both duration and scale.
It had been a weak start to 2022 for sales activity and a significant drop in volumes had allowed time for the stock of listings to be replenished but had shifted the balance of power in favour of buyers.
Challenges ahead for housing market
It’s been more than a decade since a similar drop in sales activity was recorded. Days on market had also increased as buyers hold the balance of power with plenty of stock to choose from.
other assets rise too.
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oreLogic’s quarterly market againstwithtrillionQ2toresidentialmarket.manyvaluesmarkedhasinslowdownconfirmsoverviewthattheofsalesactivitythefirstquarterof2022flowedthroughtoadeclineinpropertyandwasoneofchallengestohittheThetotalvalueofrealestatefell$1.69trillionattheendof2022,downfrom$1.73attheendof2021,mortgagessecured20%ofthatvalue,
Sharply rising interest rates and the large wave of refinancing of existing mortgages that will occur over the next year will test the declining property market, CoreLogic NZ Chief Property Economist Kelvin Davidson says
The rest of 2022 and into 2023 looks set to remain a testing time for market activity levels.
Should the economy start
to feel the pinch of tighter monetary policy sooner than the RBNZ expects, the OCR may not need to go all the way to 4%, which would also tend to limit the peak for mortgage rates. That said, offshore rates also matter too, and the key point is that mortgage rates are still likely to have further to rise
more listings, a shift in pricing power towards buyers, a tighter mortgage lending environment, and sharply higher interest rates.This weaker phase for the property market looks set to continue into 2023, and even when the floor is reached, the experience of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was that it took another two to three years for the next upswing to start as values plateau.
Overall,yet.the property market is clearly in a very different phase than we’ve seen for several years, with sales volumes low and values falling outright. Provided unemployment levels remain low in the range of 3 to 4% the market should stay in a correction phase rather than moving into a serious slump.
CoreLogic’s Buyer Classification figures indicate first home buyers and mortgaged multiple property owners remained relatively subdued in the past few months, due to stretched affordability, low gross rental yields, tighter credit conditions and higher mortgage rates.
Inflation rates, economic health and the official cash rate (OCR) will be key influences on New Zealand’s property market in the next 18 months. Recession risks are still prevalent and any signs of rising unemployment will have an adverse impact.
Values
As the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act (CCCFA) rules ease, more people may be able to access credit and enter the market, however it’s unlikely to move the needle significantly, with 2022 total sales projected to be around 78,000, down from 94,000 in 2021.
New Zealand’s property values have fallen for three consecutive months to an average of $1,018,770, down -2.3% from the peak, with annual growth rates slowing to 12.4%.
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subdued, even as the borders fully reopen, and on top of that, credit conditions remain restricted and mortgage rates continue to rise. All of these factors point to further downwards pressure on property sales.
There are multiple reasons contributing to a slowdown in values, these include
Lending
Reserve Bank (RBNZ) aggregated mortgage lending data showed a weak level of activity in May. The total value of gross lending – which covers new loans but also top-ups and refinancing – was $6.8 billion, down -23.6% or -$2.1 billion from the same month last year.
Outlook
has fallen further, reflecting weakness for both owneroccupiers and investors.
Buyer Classification
The number of loans being written in recent months
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In addition to the above, a myriad of additional factors like supply chain issues have seen vacancy maintain record low levels in Auckland’s industrial pre cincts. With vacancy sitting at around a mere 0.9%, ten ants are competing strongly for quality space with prime
Industrial Market
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rates upward.
The logistics and industrial property markets in Auck land, Wellington and Christ church continue to be the most active. Low availability of stock, limited opportu nities for development and unrelenting demand contin ue to push industrial rental
A snapshot of industrial, retail and office markets
yields maintaining a histor ical low from the previous quarter while secondary industrial yields firmed due to the competitive nature of theThesector.current market condi tions in Wellington are tight, with no signs of any relent in the pressure on the ex tremely low vacancy levels
JLL New Zealand explores how commercial property is performing in the country’s three largest cities and how those markets are poised for the remainder of the year
for the foreseeable future. While demand remains high, little is being added to supply with the pipeline bottlenecked by the con tinuance of rising land and constructions costs as well as the diminishing avail ability of industrial develop mentWhileland.both Auckland and Wellington share a simi lar story, Christchurch is drawing on its potential to deliver on interest from a wider pool of occupiers and investors capitalizing from a more sustainable and lon ger-term supply of land. In vestors remain interested in Christchurch although new developers will still need to take note of required rentals to provide the appropriate returns to meet investment thresholds.Download the full report
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its presence known. While there are few sole retail de velopments in the pipeline in New Zealand, retail is a key component of several mixed-use duringAucklandretailapartments.comprisingdevelopmentsoffice,hotelorOverallvacancyamongrealestateintheCBDdecreasedthequarter,showing
Even though the retail property market continues to be one of the hardest hit industries from the pandemic due to enforced lockdowns and trading restrictions, increased leasing momentum indi cates a positive direction since the pandemic made
Office Market
This year has seen the continuation of workspace strategies evolving, with an increase in requirement from occupiers towards em ployee health and wellbeing and fulfilling green initia tives. Quality office spaces will remain a key strategy for occupiers as part of their retention and attract ing of Whilestaff.overall vacan cy has increased in the Auckland CBD, there is an uneven spread of occu pancy across the city on a building-by-building basis. Meanwhile vacancy among offices on the Auckland city fringe has decreased. How ever, with the borders due to open there is an expecta tion for investment enquiry to increase along with the ‘great return to work’ which will see occupancy levels
Occupation is being driven by government tenants and lack of office supply, how ever there are a number of
Retail Market
office developments in the pipeline with many offering mixed use. While these are predominantly already fully pre-leased, this is expect ed to create a quantum of backfill space in A-grade buildings.Whilethere were no office completions in Christchurch for the first quarter of 2022, there are many devel
uptake of vacant opportuni ties as come to the market. The future of Auckland CBD retail will be supported by employees returning to the office, students to university and tourism. Demand has maintained for suburban retail with many consumers opting to shop locally while working from home.
Wellington’s “Golden Mile”
rise once Vacancymore.rates in the Wellington office property market illustrate a unique story with prime increasing minimally to a mere 1.1%, while secondary vacancy decreased to just 4.3%.
extending from the Parlia ment end of Lambton Quay, along Willis St and through to Manners St to the east ern end and entertainment hub of Courtenay Place is expect to gain back its momentum after being hit hard by the reduced footfall. Average gross rents have held steady as have yields. The outlook for retail real estate in Christchurch remains positive with con tinued low vacancy in both suburban and CBD pre cincts. With borders due to open and workers returning to the workplace, the CBD is set to benefit from an in flux of footfall, while it is ex pected that suburban retail will continue to benefit from the ‘shop local’ philosophy for those that have adopted hybrid or remote working structures.Download the full report
opments in the pipeline including 28 in the central business district alone. As a consequence of the historically low vacancy levels among prime office offering, demand for sec ondary properties has been bolstered.Download the full report
untapped potential of Build to Rent and explain the legislative actions required to enable it. As part of this, we have collaboratively resolved the researchRentZealand’sstepannouncementclass.asacknowledgedlistenedthatchanges.year’sconsequencesunintendedoflastinterestdeductibility“ItisencouragingtoseethegovernmenthastooursectorandBuildtoRentauniquepropertyassetThegovernment’sisamajortowardsboostingNewemergingBuildtosector.“PropertyCouncilshowsthatour
“Over the past 18 months, Property Council has been working closely with the government to highlight the
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members stand poised to deliver over 25,000 Build to Rent homes in the next decade, with the right policy settings,” Freeman says.“While announcementtoday’shas been a fantastic step in the right direction, there are a few remaining speedbumps to truly unlock the concept.
Build to Rent is the fastest growing residential sector in the world, with the potential to support New Zealand’s urban intensification and climate ambitions, Freeman says.
located in city centres within walking distance of key transport links. These developments are professionally managed, with brilliant amenities available onsite, offering residents bespoke lifestyle options for as long as they want to stay.”
New tax exemption set to unlock Build to Rent in New Zealand
An exemption from the interest limitation rules to certain types of new and existing build-to-rent developments will apply retroactively from October 1, 2021
“For Build to Rent to flourish, access to large institutional investment via the overseas investment act and required.”depreciationcommercialisalso
o developmentsqualify, need to offer tenants leases of at least 10 years, Housing Minister Megan Woods says.Property Council New Zealand has come out in support of the announcement.ChiefExecutive Leonie Freeman says her members share the government’s view that enabling Build to Rent will provide warm, dry rental homes that offer Kiwis long-term security of tenure.“Build to Rent refers to multi-unit developments,residentialtypically
The Commerce Commission is recommending the establishment of a centralised digital national key products registry to increase trust and confidence in residential building supplies
regulators.“Soontobe published research indicates that 94% of building sector participants do not have the product data in a format that meets their purposes and the majority support any registry to be a joint public-private partnership.”
Call for a national building catalogueproducts
national products register would act as the primary reference source for information about building products, including the information that will be required to be disclosed as a result of the building law reforms, the Commerce Commission says.
construction projects with costs of approximately $232 million per year arising from product failures.
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“This could make it easier for designers, builders and BCAs to find information about available building products, potentially reducing the barriers to use of different building products.“Despite the Government previously discarding the concept of a national products register, some aggregation or coordination of available building product databases should be considered, especially as the new inapprovedsupplies,innovativeinformationVerificationAcceptableproductsorofincentivisesproductscentrallyintroducingtherepreliminaryadministrationoutmayinformation.unbiasedwayagency,asbeofstimulaterequirementlegislativeislikelytothedevelopmentmoreinformation.“WeconsiderthatitmayappropriateforMBIE,theresponsiblepolicytospecifytheitoperatestoensureandreliableHowever,therebescopetocontracttheconstructionandfunctions.”TheCommission’sviewisthatwouldbebenefitinsomeformofoperatednationalregisterthat:•encourages,enablesandthesharinginformationaboutnewinnovativebuildingandmethods;•includeslinkstoSolutionsandMethods;and•enablessharingofaboutneworkeybuildingwhereBCAshavethemforuseAlternativeSolutions
Building widerandimprove,facilitateproductofsupportssaysFederationIndustryJulienLeystheindustrystronglytheestablishmentacentralisednationalcataloguetoinnovation,trust,reliabilityproductivityacrossthebuildingsector.
and any difficulties which have been encountered in the use of these building supplies in consented projects.GS1New Zealand Chief Executive Peter Stevens says research conducted by the group in 2020, funded by the Building Levy via the Building Research Association of NZ (BRANZ), made this recommendation and the linkage to increased productivity across the building sector supply“Earlierchains.BRANZ research found that a lack of trusted digital product assurance data was a factor contributing to the use of nonconforming products in
“The research estimated that only a 6% reduction in the use of non-compliant products through making better product assurance information widely available would cover the investment required.”Stevens says what the Commerce Commission is recommending is commonplace in other sectors including food & grocery and healthcare where products are globally and uniquely identified and structured data about these products is shared between trading partners and to
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Buyers of services have many aspects of supplier performance that they have to evaluate to ensure the supplier selected is going to deliver the services required in a manner that provides acceptable levels of delivery and risk management during the course of delivery.
To do that it is important to break the procurement process down into bite size chunks based on areas that a possible prime contractor would base their decision on. From there it is possible to evaluate the level of sameness that, by nature, the other areas provide to leverage the prequalification framework.
An examination of how a prequalification framework could evolve
looking at the options available to leverage the existing framework into other aspects of the procurement process.
n July 2021 we submitted an article to this publication that detailed the development and roll out of Totika.
To refresh the reader’s memory the Totika scheme is a framework for the Construction industry to provide assurance of a consistent level of Health & Safety performance within a tendering business.
Totika was developed by Construction Health & Safety New Zealand (CHASNZ). The launch of the framework was the result of a number of years of industry led work to develop an acceptable framework that simplified the method by which subcontractors could prove that they had a robust Health & Safety system in their business (this is known as pre-qualification).
about Totika. The crystal ball exercise and the subsequent opinion below is the view of the writer and is based upon their experience with other prequalification frameworks as well the way in which standards are evolving globally for utilisation during procurement and contractual negotiations.
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And, as communicated,previouslythey are designed to determine assurance against a predetermined standard for supplier selection during the performance.levelensurepre-screenservicesofwhichsingleTotikaforprocess.pre-qualificationTherationalethedevelopmentofwastocreateamechanismthroughbuyers(Procurers)constructionrelatedcouldconfidentlysupplierstotheymetacertifiedofHealth&SafetyInthispaperwetalk
Health and –pre-qualificationSafetywheretonext
– this should come as no surprise. Most prime contractors have submitted
Below are six areas of procurement that are generally accepted as forming the core criteria for supplier selection.
i.) Price
This month we are going to look into the crystal ball and see here where a pre-qualification framework could evolve to. Totika is an example of a prequalification framework that mirrors like frameworks utilised all over the work.
So when looking at the possible evolution of a prequalification scheme the obvious opportunities that arise are created through
ii.) CapabilityCapacity/
v.) Risk
– most tenders evaluate a supplier’s abilities and limitations. Potential suppliers must be able to scale the right type, and number, of resource and equipment to meet the requirements of the project at hand up for tender
iv.) Performance
– this revolves around the ability of a supplier to actively manage risk across many dimensions. This can go all the way from supply chain management through to unplanned outages or changes in work conditions through to individual’s wellbeing i.e. Health & Safety, providing confidence that a vendor has an ability to actively manage risk through a proven risk
vi.) impactEnvironmental
iii.) Quality
will stand the test of time is very important for the prime contractor and the end client. Historical work and relationships go some way toward providing confidence in suppliers. In the case where a potential providers quality performance is not fully understood ISO9001 remains the global industry standard. Being certified against this standard provides comfort that the provider under consideration has in place a proven management system that’ a. Active checksresources,processes,–workpolicies,engagementmanagementb.Clearlyalignedproceduresandactivitiesc.Productrealisationincl.qualityobjectives,documentation,successcriteria,andrecordsd.Measurement,analysis
and improvement
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– sustainability is an increasingly critical component in vendor analysis from both a financial perspective but as importantly from an ethical perspective. Evaluating waste strategies,managementhazardous and general waste disposal processes, procurement practices for the betterment of the environment and methods to minimise carbon emissions are becoming increasingly table stakes for being a
– quantifying quality can be challenging. Evaluating that a supplier is going to provide a solution that
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management framework. This is an important element of any vendor evaluation to ensure the vendor selected is minimising the risk to the prime engagement.throughoutcontractortheproposed
a tender price based on their experience and knowledge of like projects. From there they look to find suppliers who can subcontract the component parts within the price envelope they need to make the job successful
– this requires a review of previous experience with like companies, recent like projects, innovative approaches developed and the success of them, delivery of projects on time, in spec and on budget.
successful sub contractor. When evaluating the potential for rolling one or more of the areas detailed above into a recognisedinternationallyRisk,biglistednotedrightschemeimplementextensionsbeabove,ofwequalificationwheremanagedfinishedproductsusersproviderecognisedTheseindustryexampleperformance.EnvironmentaltorecogniseddevelopedManagement)(Environmentalstandardsystemrecognisedexample.emissions)1:2018performance,ofthatrecognisedlocalindependentlywhatcouldstartsvalueofframeworkpre-qualificationasimpleeaseimplementationanddeliveredexercisetoshowwhatareasbeconsideredandareasshouldremainpre-qualified.ThereareanumberofandinternationallystandardssupportaspectsenvironmentalISO14064-(GreenhouseGasisagoodThemostwidelymanagementcertificationisISO14001that.SomeindustrieshavegloballystandardsassessmanagementAgreatinthetimberisPEFCandFSC.aretwogloballystandardsthatassurancetoendthatselectedTimberoriginateandarefromsustainablyforests.Sowhenwelookattonextforapre-frameworkstarttorecognisethatthesixareasdetailedthreeofthemcoulddeemedtobelogicali.e.easytofromtheTotikaasitistoday.Thesealllieinthetopquadrant.Itshouldbethatallsixaspectsdelivervalue.ThedifferenceisthatforProductandQualityandlocallystandards
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Risk comes in many forms and certification helps over a variety of levels
Telarc is a Jas-anz Accredited Certifica tion Body which provides qualified, com petent, New Zealand auditors, who are industry coded to provide relevant and impartial intervention for a large range of New Zealand business regardless of the business size.
The body is able to provide New Zealand business with an individual or a team of auditors capable of assessing one or multiple standards across one or multiple sites.
While the key priority of any commer cial relationship is to deliver a product or a service, there is an increasing need from businesses to have confidence that their tendering parties and suppliers are managing their business in a manner that won’t negatively impact the supply relationship.Thereareincreasing demands from buyers for their suppliers to provide confidence that they are operating their business in a manner that is delivering good quality and environmentally aware
products (ISO 9001 and ISO 14001) while managing workers in a way that pro tects worker well-being and safety (ISO 45001).There is more demand across other areas such as ethical work practices, Asset Management (ISO 55001) and IT Management (ISO 27001).
Accredited Certification looks for gaps, risks and improvements in the way that work is actually done versus the way it is planned and communicated. This provides visibility of where work practice and or documentation anoma lies lie in all levels of the business. This then leads to improvement activity so Certification can be granted.
The second growing area that is driving minimisation of risk through Certifica tion is through board and senior leader directives.Overthe last decade, legislation and regulations have looked to push cul pability for sub-optimal work practices towards senior leaders and boards.
procurement channels creates opportunities for inconsistencies and for cutting corners.
Philip Cryer is CEO of Telarc, a Crown Entity subsidiary with a vision to provide its clients with end to end, impartially audited Food & Wine and Management Systems Certification and Training
that leverage a common framework could easily be included in the prequalification framework. Areas such as difficultPerformanceCapacity/CapabilityPrice,andarefarmoretoimplementdue to their being far more specific to the opportunity being tendered.Overtime though it could be seen that common elements could be defined for these three areas that can then be populated by prospective sub-contract partners. The could then be added in as separate table that can provide a prime contractor with a balanced scored card of the ability of a prospective supplier to meet the criteria established to achieve a met in the pre-qualification stage of the tender process.
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Being able to stipulate requirements from potential suppliers via a clear and transparent set of industry specific criteria makes for the potential to significantly reduce the risk and in turn liability for the senior leaders and governance layer of the organisations procuring the services outcomes.
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