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Our Wellington office recently partnered with Big Buddy to support the annual Big Buddy Day Out at the Brookfield Outdoor Education Centre, in Wellington. Big Buddy finds father figures for boys who don't have someone to call Dad, through...

Today is World Water Day, a day to celebrate and raise awareness of the global water crisis 💦 WWD supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 💧 6: Water and Sanitation for all by 2030. This was voted as...

A very big congratulations to everyone who participated in the Aotearoa Bike Challenge this year. PDP managed to win the overall 50 - 199 staff category with 38,531 points. In the regional rankings, our Christchurch office also won for the 3rd...

We place great emphasis on being client-focused, so are very pleased to find out that we have been nominated as a finalist in the Australia and New Zealand Client Choice Awards 2021! "A huge congratulations to all finalists for the Best Built...

Join our growing team! We have a number of opportunities across New Zealand, at various levels. If you're thinking about a change or looking for a new challenge, take a look at some of our current vacancies: https://lnkd.in/gnETGsQ

Keep an eye out for Ben Throssell today at 11 am at the NZHS Technical Workshop for a presentation on the Environment Canterbury River Network Tool. Ben, along with Environment Canterbury will be outlining how we automated the process of...

Don't miss this! Morgan Harvie will be presenting at the NZHS Technical Workshop at 11 am today. Morgan will be discussing Tracing Water through Karst Systems, using dye tracing techniques to identify emergence locations of water from dolines...

Yesterday Phil Hook remotely joined the NZHS Technical Workshop via video, to present on Acoustic Doppler Devices and Data Nuances. With Auckland still being in Alert Level 2, it does pose some challenges with people moving around the country....

Last weekend, the "Pattle Delamore Pounders" returned to the beautiful shores of Lake Taupō to compete in the annual Great Lake Relay. Our team of 14 employees rounded the 155km route over 18 stages and made it all around the lake in 13 hours...

Our offices will be shut from close of business on Wednesday 23 December 2020, and reopening on Thursday 7th January 2021.Wishing you and your family a festive holiday season, and best wishes for 2021. After the odd year that 2020 has been, this is well...

That's a WRAP! Last week we had our very first Golden Rules Awareness Week across the entire company. Each day was themed around 1 of our 5 Health & Safety Golden Rules. To help reinforce the importance of following our Golden Rules, the...

A great night at the ACE New Zealand awards last night, celebrating work that consultants and engineers do. We're pleased to have won a merit award for our PFAS Investigation Programme with New Zealand Defence Force. Hamish Wilson, Nerena...

Our 2020/21 Summer Interns! This week we welcomed some fresh blood into our Water Infrastructure team across our Auckland, Tauranga and Christchurch offices. We are excited to have you work with the team Milan Parsotam, Michael Alcantara, Luci...

Last week a few people from our Water Infrastructure team attended the Water New Zealand Conference & Expo at Claudelands Events Centre in Hamilton. Mark Ellis and Jack Feltham had amazing presentations. Mark presented on Water Safety and...

Great FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2020 conference on Friday. It was the first time that Charlotte Scott from our Geospatial team in Auckland, had attended and it was a brilliant opportunity to hear what others were doing in the open-source GIS sphere....

What an achievement! Dylan interned for us last summer and will be joining our 2021 graduate programme.   Very proud of Stephanie Pratchett and Dylan Edwards, a team of our undergraduate Honours Natural Resources Engineering students who...

New work attire...? 👔 👘 Last Friday, our Christchurch office held its annual LOUD Shirt Day event. We raised $147.50 for The Hearing House and Southern Cochlear Implant Programme. Thanks to everyone involved!

Today 63 New Zealanders will hear the words "you have Cancer". Cancer does not care about age, race or geographic location. Two of our lovely staff members, Annelise Fowlie and Nadine Küsel want to raise awareness as well as funds for the work...

PDP have really enjoyed sponsoring and contributing to the WasteMINZ Be the Change Summit over the last few days – What a success! Great for us all to get together and enjoy discussing some of the pressing woes of lockdown and be able to...

We are delighted to hear that we are a finalist for the 2020 ACE Awards for our PFAS Investigation Programme! Well done! We are delighted to announce the 2020 ACE Award finalists. The awards celebrate the excellent work consultants and...

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...