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State Highway 58 Safety Improvements-Detailed Design

Paving the way for improving road safety and reducing crash rates
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Pukekohe Wastewater Discharge Consenting

Providing certainty for wastewater discharge infrastructure that will support large scale projected population growth
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Katiki Beach Coastal Repair

Reinstatement and protection of State Highway 1 on the Otago Coast
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Aotearoa: the land of the long white cloud

Our experts live and work in the communities they serve, based in 14 offices across the north and south islands. As a global, full-service consulting, engineering and construction company, we have the breadth of capabilities, professional talent, universal reach and capital necessary to offer clients fully integrated services that set new standards in quality, value, timeliness and cost-efficiency. We go the whole length for the land of the long white cloud.

I offer a broader outlook on transportation solutions, going beyond the client’s structural requirements.

Alan Kerr Discipline Leader Transportation Planning Australia & New Zealand

Kia Ora UK, let's talk

Are you technically talented in transportation or water? Have you ever thought about moving your life and your career to New Zealand? We're always looking for smart, community-focused experts to join our team. So if you'd like to move up in life, down under, email Margaret.McMeel@stantec.com Living and working in NZ

Stantec acquires TDG

In April 2018, we strengthened our capabilities by acquiring the Wellington, New Zealand-based consulting transportation engineering firm, Traffic Design Group (TDG). Learn More

Designing strong communities in New Zealand

Strong communities don’t just happen—they’re by design. See how we blend data, experience, technology and creativity to deliver authentic urban places that help New Zealand communities to thrive.

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the original earthquake happened on

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September 4 2010 in terms of world

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global disasters it registers in the top

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10 since 1950 the scale of the

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Christchurch earthquakes was mess of for

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New Zealand and it was our job to get

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our customers soldiers and back into

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their home so by the the start of

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October 2010 we were on the ground we

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had people up and running we were

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receiving claims from their own a

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insurance and we were we were helping

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customers from that point on the support

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help we got from MWh was significant in

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that it provided not just a technical

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view on how to reinstate these

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properties but also professional view on

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how we should be interacting with

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regulators with government and with

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other suppliers and professional bodies

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that we needed to engage with to help

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develop against a recovery plan

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you

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the ability to bring the two teams

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together and take the strengths of an

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insurance company a program management

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team and turn them into truly a

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high-performance organization really

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added a lot to what we did in

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Christchurch MWh recovery where eyes and

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ears on the ground and they looked after

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the health and well-being of our

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customers every single day I'll never

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forget particularly after the February

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event the number of elderly customers

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who they actually went picked up and

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took to the airport when needed they're

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really cared about those customers and

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very challenging times the collaboration

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between our client and MW HS is what I

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believe really made this the the success

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that it was

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having having MWh and véro and AAA

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staff all working together in the same

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environment really allowed us to to lead

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the industry in terms of our response

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and customer service so when WH came to

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the table with very much a mentality

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around partnership which was significant

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for us and ultimately allowed us to work

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much closer together to develop the

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outcomes and achieve the outcomes that

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we want to achieve I guess the second

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thing that we were looking for from our

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partner name WH was technical expertise

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and certainly MWh being a global

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organization we're able to tap into

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their resources from a global point of

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view and and ship them into your very

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small city in a very quick period of

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time so that was engineers geotech

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people structural engineers it was

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project managers and at every step

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people at MWh were always willing to

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think outside the box and to progress

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things in any way possible to reduce

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stress and uncertainty for our customers

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the ability to help 12,000 people get

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back to some semblance of a normal life

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early really added a lot of value

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to what we did in Christchurch

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Meet Our Team

Paula Hunter, National Planning Specialist

I am committed to planning excellence and the delivery of best practice solutions.

Chris Maguire, Group Manager, Upper North Island

Encouraging excellence in our teams—amazing technical people with broad specialisations—is the key to solving our clients’ challenges.

Andrew Bird, Senior Hydropower Engineer, Asia Pacific Dams and Hydro Sector Leader

I love working proactively to solve problems with our clients and I am a firm believer in a best-for-project approach over the interests of companies or individuals.

Alan Kerr, Discipline Leader Transportation Planning Australia & New Zealand

I offer a broader outlook on transportation solutions, going beyond the client’s structural requirements.

Andrew Atkinson, Project Development Leader Australia & New Zealand

You can’t help but be inspired when you work with people who are passionate about their craft.

Julie Ballantyne, Transportation Leader

I like a technical challenge and working to tackle that challenge with a team.

Paula Hunter

National Planning Specialist
Chris Maguire

Group Manager, Upper North Island
Andrew Bird

Senior Hydropower Engineer, Asia Pacific Dams and Hydro Sector Leader
Alan Kerr

Discipline Leader Transportation Planning Australia & New Zealand
Andrew Atkinson

Project Development Leader Australia & New Zealand
Julie Ballantyne

Transportation Leader
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Entrenched in Community

We know our community because we live, work and play within it, based from 16 locations across the north and south islands.

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