Other Projects

• Assisting the Bay of Plenty Regional Council with the review of stormwater provisions for proposed plan changes and structure plans within the region - Bay of Plenty Regional Council.
• Quantification of life cycle carbon equivalent emissions for various green and grey stormwater treatment interventions for incorporation into Auckland Council's Freshwater Management Tool - Auckland Council.
• Ongoing advice to Auckland Council on the optimisation of urban and rural structural and non-structural water quality interventions for their Freshwater Management Tool - Auckland Council.
• Investigation into the barriers to implementing Water Sensitive Urban Design within the current Auckland planning framework - Auckland Council.
• The calculation of life cycle costs for retrofitting green infrastructure into the road corridor - Tauranga City Council.
• The development of a life cycle cost model for the Filterra rain garden system - Stormwater360.
• Collaboratively working with Sapere to document and review, against best practice pricing principles, current stormwater pricing in New Zealand and recommendations for future pricing under a Three Waters structure - New Zealand Infrastructure Commission / Te Waihanga.
• The identification and prioritisation of opportunities to retrofit green infrastructure within the roading corridor (including installing living roofs on bus shelters) - Auckland Transport.
• Jointly with Landcare Research, scoping the development of a cost benefit analysis tool for green infrastructure - Ministry for the Environment.
• Specialist advice, cost and benefit estimation for green roofs on bus stops. Project jointly undertaken with PDP and Landcare Research - Auckland Transport.
• Working jointly with PDP to prioritise green infrastructure interventions, such as street trees, tree pits and green roofs, across the Auckland Transport Network.
• Peer reviewer for Christchurch City Council’s urban and industrial stormwater cost benefit analyses, required for their Network Discharge Consent - Christchurch City Council.
• Development of a library of life cycle costs and cost aggregation model for stormwater and wastewater solutions within the Porirua Whaitua - Greater Wellington Regional Council.
• Development of a “Life Cycle Costing Model” (COSTnz) for stormwater management devices - Landcare Research.
• A review of the sources of contaminants in Hastings and development of a Contaminant Management Strategy - Hastings District Council.
• Research and writing a paper on the economic costs and benefits of low impact design - Aqua Terra International for inclusion into the Tauranga City Council LID manual.
• Consultation facilitator for the Waitematā, Tāmaki and Manukau NDC applications (ongoing) - Auckland Council.
• A review of the funding gap and alternative funding mechanisms for stormwater management in Auckland - Auckland Council.
• Feedback on pilot and joint delivery of pilot National Green Infrastructure Certification Programme (NGICP) for Auckland Council.
• External Peer Review of the Transit NZ Study: “Efficiency of Proprietary Devices for treating road runoff” - NIWA.
• Construction and Maintenance costing of stormwater devices proposed for the Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens - Auckland Regional Council.
• Development of a rural stormwater strategy for the Rodney District - Rodney District Council.
• Development of a stormwater treatment prioritisation strategy for the Rodney District - Rodney District Council.
• Continued capital works tracking, asset planning and consent advice to the stormwater department at RDC - Rodney District Council.
• Specialist consent advice; stormwater and sediment control consent processing; network consent processing and management; assistance with and review of CMPs; review of stormwater design guidelines, and joint running of the TP10 Stormwater Course with Aqua Terra International Ltd - Auckland Regional Council.
• Specialist stormwater treatment consent reviews - Environment Canterbury.
• Specialist network discharge consent and stormwater discharge consent advice, policy advice and training – Network Consent Team and Natural Resources and Specialist Input -  Stormwater Team, Auckland Council.