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Alida van Vugt and Neeraj Pratap from our Christchurch office presented at a seminar for EnviroSoc at the University of Canterbury. EnviroSoc is a UoC club which provides support for students studying environmental sciences. EnviroSoc also...

Emma Willmore and Marinus Boon from our Environmental Management team have been collaborating with Karen Denyer of the National Wetland Trust of New Zealand (NWT) and are pleased to announce our recent partnership with the NWT through PDP’s...

Since mid-2018, PDP has been contracted to New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade (MFAT) as Manager of the NZ-Laos Renewable Energy Facility. We have been supporting the Government of Lao PDR to improve dam safety regulation. The...

Marinus Boon is a national remote sensing lead from the Environmental Management team in our Wellington office and will be a technical panellist joining the discussion on the case studies that will be presented in a webinar for Mapping &...

Māori Language Week is ON! To celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, our tīma (team) here at PDP are extending our knowledge of Te Reo and Te Ao Māori. We have been sharing and learning kupu (words), whakatauki (Māori proverbs) and Mātauranga Māori....

To tie off Plastic-Free July, last month’s EOM presentation in our Auckland office was on compostable plastics; the use of which has risen in popularity due to the global plastic waste issue. But how effective are these products and are they...

Last Friday, our Auckland based Environmental Management team hosted the prestigious End of Month get-together - our first since February. Amber Simmonds, Natalie Wood, Andrew Curtis and Todd Redman presented on their skills, capabilities and...

As we continue to expand our Air Quality team, we are pleased to welcome Andrew Curtis and Jonathan Harland to our Auckland office. Andrew and Jonathan complement our team of leading air quality professionals in Wellington and Christchurch...

Since 2013, PDP has been involved in the options assessment, consenting process and design of a new land disposal system for Hanmer Springs treated wastewater. Now, with the system under construction and set to be operational in late...

This year things are a bit different - instead of the presentations usually held at the Unis, we will be hosting a couple of webinars this Thursday 7 May. There are 2 sessions - one targeted at Auckland, and one for Christchurch. Visit...

Since moving from the work office to the home office. A few of our staff wanted to show off their new work-space ... along with some new (and potentially improved) colleagues.

Yesterday was our first official 'work from home day', which we got through with surprisingly few issues considering it was originally just planned as a trial! Our 160+ staff are now up and running from their own home offices, continuing to...

Kathy Wilson, Buddle Findlay - "It was great to be part of the team that closed one of the largest transport transactions New Zealand has seen. The Buddle Findlay team was outstanding. Special thanks to Steve Pearce and the team at Pattle...

Our contaminated land team in Christchurch has been awarded the contract for the Detailed Site Investigation and Remedial Options Assessment for the Ocean Beach Landfill Project in Invercargill. The project is partly funded through the Ministry...

In February members and friends of the PDP runners group “Pattle Delamore Pounders” completed the Great Lake Relay running event around Lake Taupo. The event requires competing teams to run a circuit of Lake Taupo, a total distance of 155 km,...

Last month Edward Cromwell, Neeraj Pratap, Alida van Vugt, and Ryan Nicol attended the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals game event, organised by Ako Ōtautahi Learning City Christchurch. The event was a multiplayer, card-based game that...

We have recently joined Facebook and Instagram @pdp_nz Give us a follow and like to see more of the exciting social activities we get up to here at PDP.

As part of our focus on sustainability within our offices, our Christchurch team have recently signed up with local initiative Cultivate Christchurch, an urban farm located less than a kilometre from the central city that provides work...

In August last year, our Christchurch office made the move back into the CBD. The team were excited to move into the new space at 134 Oxford Terrace. We now have a much more flexible working environment in a great location overlooking the Avon...

Our Wellington team recently partnered with Do Some Good to help Porirua School with a garden project. We worked alongside tamariki and teachers to build the beginnings of an outdoor classroom, including a colourful sensory path and a whole lot...

As we continue to grow, the demand on our senior team to engage, motivate and develop our staff also increases. This year we have run two leadership development workshops - for our Technical Directors earlier in the year, and more recently for...

We are proud to have recently hosted the WasteMINZ CLM networking event in our Auckland Office. There was a great turnout with presentations from Harry Sparkes on Acid Sulphate Soils in New Zealand and their investigation under current...