Awards

Gala Dinner

Join us on Thursday 1st May 2025, for an unforgettable evening at the IPWEA Aotearoa | New Zealand Excellence Awards Gala Dinner, where we will announce the Award Winners for 2025!

Attend an evening celebrating exception talent, opportunities to connect with peers, and hear from our special guest speaker - Rob Waddell, former New Zealand Rowing World Champion and Olympic gold medallist. Be part of this memorable occasion to honour our industry’s finest!

Award Categories

Sponsorship Prospectus

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Principal Sponsor

Brightly Software, a Siemens company, enables organisations to successfully plan, maintain, and sustain the entire lifecycle of their assets, facilities and infrastructure. As the global leader in intelligent asset management solutions for more than 25 years, Brightly’s sophisticated cloud-based platform is expertly designed to improve capital planning through smarter, data-driven decision making, empower technicians to predict, prioritise and manage preventative maintenance activities, and support organisations to achieve sustainability, compliance and efficiency goals. Combined with award-winning training, legendary support and managed services, more than 12,000 clients worldwide depend on Brightly to optimise their teams, operations and strategic planning initiatives. Visit brightlysoftware.com

Keynote Speaker Sponsor

Geotab is advancing security, connecting commercial vehicles to the cloud and providing data-driven analytics to help customers better manage their fleets. Geotab's open platform and Marketplace, offering hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with their other data assets. As an IoT hub, the in-vehicle device provides additional functionality through IOX Add-Ons. Processing billions of data points a day, Geotab leverages data analytics and machine learning to help customers improve productivity, optimize fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety, and achieve strong compliance to regulatory changes. Geotab’s products are represented and sold worldwide through Authorized Geotab Resellers. To learn more, please visit www.geotab.com.au

Category Sponsor (Excellence in Environment & Sustainability)

Morphum Environmental is an environmental engineering, environmental science, geospatial services and sustainability consultancy with offices in Melbourne, Auckland, Christchurch, Waikato, Wellington and Nelson. For over 20 years we have been co-creating thriving ecosystems with our partners and clients by providing pragmatic infrastructure and environmental solutions, driven by multi-disciplinary collaboration and community decision making. For more on how we can co-create a thriving ecosystem, please visit https://www.morphum.com/ 

Category Sponsor (Excellence in Water Project)

McConnell Dowell was founded over 60 years ago by two entrepreneurial New Zealanders who valued smart engineering and construction. That’s why we’re known as the Creative Construction company. Since that beginning, we’ve built thousands of quality assets and facilities for customers and communities across four continents. Our expertise has grown to be truly multi-disciplinary, spanning building, civil, electrical, fabrication, marine, mechanical, pipelines, rail, tunnel and underground construction. We are a Purpose and Values driven organisation; delivering projects that connect, support and sustain communities, and living our values of Safety & Care, Honest & Integrity, Customer Focus, Performance Excellence and Working Together. Our expertise in water and wastewater solutions covers drinking, waste and stormwater, with successful projects in capture, storage, treatment, distribution and disposal. We’ve designed and delivered some of the largest, most modern and complex wastewater treatment plants in New Zealand. We have upgraded plants and pump stations to ensure water security and wastewater treatment for urban and rural communities. We are experts in large diameter pipeline construction and have delivered water pipelines up to 1800 mm (70”) in diameter. Our in-house specialist skills and plant enable execution of HDD, micro-tunnelling, Direct Pipe® and other complex trenchless solutions.