| 26 February 2010 |
| PDP Race Round Taupo |
| Congratulations to the PDP team who completed the Great Lake Relay round Taupo last weekend. 12 runners completed the race in 15 hours, 14 minutes and 11 seconds. |
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| 24 December 2009 |
| Christmas greetings from all at PDP |
| Wishing you a happy and safe holiday, and all the best for 2010! |
Christmas greetings from all at PDP
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| 16 November 2009 |
| PDP Annual Prize in Engineering Hydrology Awarded |
| PDP has a tradition of supporting academic achievement and the development of knowledge in the environmental field. One of the ways we do this is through the annual Pattle Delamore Partners Engineering Hydrology Prize. The 2009 winner, Julie Min Zou was awarded her $2000 prize recently at the prize giving on 13 November. This prize is awarded annually to a top student in Engineering Hydrology at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Auckland. PDP sponsors this prize to encourage engineering students towards a career in water engineering and to reward excellence in this field. |
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PDP Annual Prize in Engineering Hydrology Awarded
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| 13 November 2009 |
| PDP is now a PDP! |
| We are pleased to announce that PDP has been successful in attaining IPENZ Professional Development Partner (PDP) status. Professional Development Partners undertake to support the development of engineers, particularly in relation to their registration as a Chartered Professional Engineer. Our PDP status has been awarded for a period of a full three years. IPENZ have advised that this period is only awarded to those applicants that have the highest standards in place. This endorsement recognises our ongoing commitment to the support and development of our people in their careers. |
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| 27 August 2009 |
| Marfell Park Environmental Investigation Report Released |
| The report on PDP's environmental investigation into the potential contamination at Marfell Park in New Plymouth has been released. Contaminants concentrations in soils sampled from the surface and at depth were found to be low and are considered to present a minimal risk to park users. The full report is available on the Taranaki Regional Council's website, it can be downloaded from this page: www.trc.govt.nz/environment/waste/marfell.htm |
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| 3 August 2009 |
| PDP Mapua audit report released by Minister for the Environment |
| PDP's audit report on the remediation of the former Fruitgrowers Chemical Company site in Mapua was released on Friday 31 July by the Minister for the Environment, Nick Smith. The press release from the Minister's office that accompanied the report can be read here: www.beehive.govt.nz/release/audit+report+step+forward+mapua
The full audit report is available on the Ministry for the Environment website: www.mfe.govt.nz/publications/hazardous/audit-remediation-mapua/index.html |
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| 10 July 2009 |
| PDP provides sampling plan for investigation of dioxins at Marfell Park, New Plymouth |
| PDP's sampling plan for Marfell Park is provided on the Taranaki Regional Council website at: www.trc.govt.nz/environment/pdf/marfell/marfellplanjuly09.pdf |
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| 23 June 2009 |
| PDP Director Graeme Proffitt called in to help with New Plymouth contamination |
| "New Zealand's foremost expert in the investigation and clean-up of contaminated sites has been called in to check out Marfell Park after the shock discovery of dioxins. Environmental consultant Graeme Proffitt has been asked to lead a sampling and testing programme at the former New Plymouth municipal dump site..." Read Article |
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| 11 June 2009 |
| New PDP website launched |
| It’s been a long time coming, but we are now pleased to announce the launch of our new website. We hope that you will find it informative and attractive—we’re sure you’ll agree it is quite an improvement. Please let us know if there is any information that you were expecting to find here that we haven't included, or if there are any glitches that have made it through our extensive QA/QC process. |
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