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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...

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...