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Get to know the speakers at the LDEG Forum 2024 🎤 The LDEG Forum is fast approaching, so it’s time to introduce you to our fantastic line up of speakers. Join us at the forum to hear from industry leaders about what they are doing to transform assets for communities. Matthew Leach is the Customer Experience Team Lead for Infrastructure and Assets Group at Hamilton City Council. My team perform customer and stakeholder roles that support infrastructure activities and projects. Previously the Transport Relationship and Engagement Lead for Hamilton City Council, primarily providing support in the pre-implementation phase of projects. Former chairperson for Bike Waikato, the main advocacy group for biking within Hamilton. Transport nerd. My main mode of transport is a bike, but I walk, scooter and bus too. Don’t own a car, or have a driver’s licence anymore! Learn more about Matt's LDEG Forum presentation here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/giAadHvR The LDEG Forum takes place 20-21 November 2024, at Novotel Tainui Hotel, Kirikiriroa Hamilton. Click here to learn more 🔗 https://ldeg.apopo.co.nz/

For this month’s Āpōpō Views piece, Āpōpō CE Murray Pugh has shared a retrospective on asset management from his four years at Āpōpō. - Reflections on Four Years of Infrastructure Asset Management Four years have flown by, filled with significant events and changes in the infrastructure asset management sector. Here are some of my key reflections: • COVID-19 Impact: Beginning with my start in January 2021, the pandemic drastically changed work styles, with a shift to remote work and virtual connections. Technology like Teams and Zoom became essential, though the under-utilisation of office spaces is concerning. • Skill Shortages: There was a notable lack of skilled professionals to handle the necessary infrastructure investments, particularly in water and roads. Efforts were made to add asset management skills to immigration preference lists... Continue reading the article here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gfDMBKq4

Get to know the speakers at the LDEG Forum 2024 🎤 The LDEG Forum is fast approaching, so it’s time to introduce you to our fantastic line up of speakers. Join us at the forum to hear from industry leaders about what they are doing to transform assets for communities. Martin Parkes is public transport and urban mobility specialist. He has spent 38 years working in transportation with various local authorities both in New Zealand and the UK. He spent several years as Head of Transport for Tauranga City Council but now works as the Urban Mobility Manager at Hamilton City Council. He heads up a team delivering infrastructure and educational programmes which support and encourage more people to walk, bike, scooter, and use public transport. Also, he leads Council’s Parking Enforcement team. Outside of work Martin is a keen cyclist, walker of Brian the dog, and an armchair sports enthusiast. Learn more about Martin's LDEG Forum presentation here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/giAadHvR The LDEG Forum takes place 20-21 November 2024, at Novotel Tainui Hotel, Kirikiriroa Hamilton. Click here to learn more 🔗 https://ldeg.apopo.co.nz/

Interesting article from Āpōpō Board Member and East Coast/Bay of Plenty Branch Chair, Darren de Klerk. Make sure you give it a read below ⬇️

Get to know the speakers at the LDEG Forum 2024 🎤 The LDEG Forum is fast approaching, so it’s time to introduce you to our fantastic line up of speakers. Join us at the forum to hear from industry leaders about what they are doing to transform assets for communities.   Ernst Zöllner Zollner is an urban economist and planner who has pondered the vexed issue of successful urban growth management over the last 30 years in an embarrassingly large number of roles across three consultancies, a local authority (Wellington City), two Crown Entities (NZTA Waka Kotahi and Kāinga Ora), three Ministries (MBIE, HUD and MfE), an industry lobby group (Local Government NZ) and even a university (Auckland). Ernst is currently the Director Strategic Urban Partnerships at Kāinga Ora and through this role is an enthusiastic member of the respective steering groups of NZ’s six Urban Growth Partnerships. These six Partnership areas (all our Tier 1 urban areas plus Queenstown) accounted for 75% of NZ’s population growth between 2018-23, so success in urban growth management and land development really matters! Learn about Ernst’s presentation here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gf2RUUP9 The LDEG Forum takes place 20-21 November 2024, at Novotel Tainui Hotel, Kirikiriroa Hamilton. Click here to learn more 🔗 https://ldeg.apopo.co.nz/

There's still a few seats left at our next branch event in Tauranga - get in quick! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gZhrjY6y

Get to know the LDEG Forum 2024 speakers 🎤 The LDEG Forum is fast approaching, so it’s time to introduce you to our fantastic line up of speakers. Paul Spoonley is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus from Massey University. He retired from Massey University where he was a Pro Vice-Chancellor. He was a lead investigator on the Capturing Diversity Dividend project which looked at New Zealand’s growing diversity and what that meant for the country. He is the editor or author of 29 books, including The “New” New Zealand: Facing Demographic Disruption (2021). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and of the Auckland Museum where he is also a Board Member. He has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of California Berkeley, a Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and an Associate of Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures. He was Co-Director of He Whenua Taurikura (National Centre for Countering Violent Extremism) during 2022-23 and is the Co-Chair of Metropolis International, the largest network of immigration and diversity specialists. You can read about his LDEG presentation here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dyjjFEMn Join us at the forum to hear from industry leaders about what they are doing to transform assets for communities 🔗 https://ldeg.apopo.co.nz/ The LDEG Forum takes place 20-21 November 2024, at Novotel Tainui Hotel, Kirikiriroa Hamilton.

🎧 IFME Podcast: Sponge Cities with Liam Foster. IFME International Federation of Municipal Engineering’s second podcast in their series of talks with municipal engineers features a familiar face – Liam Foster FCIWEM CWEM C.Env C.Sci , Technical Principal, Water, WSP in New Zealand. Liam is an expert on sponge cities – his presentation on the topic at the Āpōpō Congress 2024 won him the Hynds Best Paper and Presentation Awards. Listen to the podcast episode here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d9fBqJpC

Get to know the speakers at the LDEG Forum 2024 🎤 The LDEG Forum is fast approaching, so it’s time to introduce you to our fantastic line up of speakers. Join us at the forum to hear from industry leaders about what they are doing to transform assets for communities. Starting with John Brzeski, Engineering Geologist, Tonkin + Taylor John is a dedicated and accomplished Engineering Geologist with over 20 years of professional experience, including natural hazard assessment, management, and mitigation. John holds a bachelor’s degree in applied Geology and a Master’s in Geohazard Assessment from the UK. With extensive experience in both field investigations and data management and analysis, John has become well-versed in evaluating the geological hazards and proposing appropriate mitigation and management measures tailored to specific environmental conditions and regulatory requirements. Specialising in regulatory response, John has worked closely with local and regional regulatory agencies to aid in complying with existing legislation and regulations and to develop strategies, planning responses and guidelines as hazard management tools. Throughout his career, John has been part of, and led, numerous multi-disciplinary teams on projects involving hazard evaluations for liquefaction, landslides, soft soils, flooding, and geothermal issues. His comprehensive assessments have been vital in shaping land-use policies, local/regional/national guidance, and construction projects, safeguarding communities and contributing to their sustainable development. - The LDEG Forum takes place 20-21 November 2024, at Novotel Tainui Hotel, Kirikiriroa Hamilton. Learn more here 🔗 https://ldeg.apopo.co.nz/

Congratulations to Kanishk Garg, AMA, our newest Asset Management Associate 👏 The Āpōpō Professional Practice Accreditation programme is accepting applications - learn more here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g2nHhCBc