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IPWEA Aotearoa | New Zealand – Public Works Engineering Excellence Awards

As the peak body for public works engineers, IPWEA Aotearoa | New Zealand annually recognises and celebrates the best in public works engineering in New Zealand. All organisations are encouraged to nominate their best projects in Public Works and Asset Management, as outlined in the categories below. IPWEA’s Excellence Awards in partnership with Principal Sponsor – Brightly Software, encourage everyone to share best practice with peers in the industry and highlight best practice partnerships with suppliers and contractors in the sector.

This is your best opportunity to put your team in the spotlight and receive the recognition you deserve at the IPWEA Aotearoa | New Zealand Excellence Awards Gala Dinner on Thursday, May 1st, 2025. Category winners will be nominated for the “Best of the Best” for the 2025 IPWEA Australasian Excellence Awards at the International Public Works Conference (IPWC), Sydney in August 2025!

Submissions Are Now Closed

Please keep an eye out for the next year's excellence awards announcement. We look forward to your participation!

The Northern Club

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!

When

The event starts from 6:00pm

May 1st, 2025

Where

The Northern Club

19 Princes St, Auckland

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Our Guest Speaker: Rob Waddell

Rob is known as one of New Zealand's most accomplished and respected sports figures: a two-time rowing World Champion, Olympic gold medallist, and three-time America's Cup competitor. He will be sharing stories from his sporting success and how he has transferred his leadership abilities off the water when he was appointed Chef de Mission of the New Zealand Olympic team.

Rob Waddell

Award Categories


Best Public Works Project Under $2.0M
Best Public Works Project $2.0M - $5.0M
Best Public Works Project Over $5.0M
Excellence in Asset Management – in association with Brightly Software
Excellence in Project Innovation
Excellence in Water Project
Excellence in Road Safety – in association with GEOTAB
Excellence in Environment & Sustainability – in association with Morphum Environmental

Key Dates


1
Submissions Portal open 
Thursday 1 August 2024
2
Submissions close - Extended
Friday 8 November 2024 
3
Finalists announced
early December 2024
4
Winners announced at Gala Dinner & Awards Night
Thursday, 1 May 2025, Auckland
5
IPWC Gala Dinner & Awards Night
Thursday 28 August 2025, Sydney, Australia
NZD Winner

Sponsorship Opportunities

Award Category Sponsorship opportunities are available. Please contact Steve Mooney, Country Head, IPWEA Aotearoa New Zealand at steve.mooney@ipwea.org for more information or download the Sponsorship Prospectus

Brightly

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


Geotab

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


Morphum

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/