WIN Northland is excited to invite you to join us for a site visit to Whangarei District Council's new civic building. It will be a fit-for-purpose building, designed to provide a welcoming, inclusive and easily accessible customer experience. The building is designed to be sustainable and to strongly reflect our cultural identity and heritage.

The building will be a central hub for local government-related activities, including democratic processes, customer services, administrative functions, council staff, and the Northland Transport Alliance staff.

The Civic Centre will house all 350 council staff, who are currently scattered through several buildings around the city, plus a council chamber which can be used for a public gallery and civil defence response. The building has been designed to accommodate a maximum of 470 staff.

The proposed building has been designed by Team Avery Architects (TAA). The building will have a height of 21m and a GFA of 7,774m², a building coverage of 2048.4m², and an impermeable surface coverage of 5,363m². This building sits on 78 piles where roughly 2kms of steel was driven into the ground.  The building substructure itself is steel framed, with rib and infill flooring and suspended slabs. The cladding is a mixture of glazing, equitone panelling and green walls.

WIN Auckland is excited to invite you to join us for a virtual lunchtime event on health and wellbeing, which is so much more important now than ever as New Zealand continues its battle with the global health pandemic.    

Join us on 3 November for a virtual event to hear from EY’s Corporate Wellbeing Coach – Dana Traenkle. We will explore the importance of a healthy lifestyle, exercise, rest and methods of stress management in the first half hour, followed by a relaxing yoga and meditation session suitable for beginners for the remaining half hour.

This session is kindly sponsored by EY.

What is 'The Inner Circle'?
Infrastructure NZ's Emerging Talent Network is pleased to invite you to a close-knit interactive session with an industry leader exclusively for our members. We call it 'The Inner Circle'.

In these exclusive sessions, an industry leader leads a discussion with a small group of ET members on a hot topic in infrastructure. You will be participating, not just listening, so bring your questions and opinions along, find out about our expert, and what they are leading in their sector. This session will be limited to 15 people, so you’ll need to be quick to snap up your place at the table.

Our Next Industry Leader

Te Waihanga is developing a 30-year infrastructure strategy which will be tabled to Parliament by early 2022. Geoff Cooper, GM Strategy, will be hosting this Inner Circle providing an opportunity for our members to have an interactive discussion on the strategic issues for New Zealand Infrastructure and the reform needed to address them.

Te Waihanga’s strategy covers the below items as well as considering long term trends such as climate change, new technologies and demographic change.

• Assess the overall fitness for purpose of New Zealand’s infrastructure system
• Determine how well the current system is working
• Identify priorities
• Identify barriers to good outcomes
• Identify the root cause of systemic issues
• Determine how best to meet future community expectations
• Use foresight planning to consider a range of future possibilities.

More information to come.