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2027 IPWEA Aotearoa | New Zealand Excellence Awards

 11 March 2027         Hilton Auckland

Excellence Awards by IPWEA NZ

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What are the Excellence Awards?

The IPWEA Aotearoa | New Zealand Excellence Awards celebrate the outstanding achievement, innovation and leadership in public works engineering industry across Aotearoa. Organisations are encouraged to nominate their best projects, people and programs, showcasing excellence and sharing best practice across the sector.

Be recognised among New Zealand’s leading public works professionals at the 2027 Excellence Awards Dinner, to be held on Thursday, 11 March 2027 at the Hilton Auckland. Award winners will also qualify for the IPWEA Australasia Excellence Awards 2027. 

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Geotab

2027 IPWEA NZ Excellence Awards

2027 IPWEA NZ Excellence Awards

An Evening of Excellence

Join public works leaders, innovators and industry partners from across New Zealand as we celebrate the projects and people that are making a real difference in our communities. The Excellence Awards Dinner is a premier networking and recognition event, showcasing the very best in public works, asset management and infrastructure.

Bring your team, celebrate your success, and be part of an unforgettable evening recognising excellence across Aotearoa. 

Info on Award Submission

Award Submission

IPWEA Aotearoa | New Zealand now invites all organisations to put their best work forward for the 2027 Excellence Awards.

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What happens next

October · Judging

Judges review submissions and select the finalists.

November · Finalists

The award finalists are announced.

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Award Categories

Best Public Works Project $2.0M – $5.0M
Best Public Works Project Over $5.0M
Excellence in Asset Management
Excellence in Project Innovation
Excellence in Water Project
Excellence in Road Safety
Excellence in Environment & Sustainability
Young IPWEA Emerging Leader

Award Categories


Best Public Works Project $2.0M - $5.0M
Best Public Works Project Over $5.0M
Excellence in Asset Management
Excellence in Project Innovation
Excellence in Water Project
Excellence in Road Safety
Excellence in Environment & Sustainability
Young IPWEA Emerging Leader

Key Dates

Awards Open

10 Aug 2026

The Excellence Award Submissions open for submissions.

Awards Close

25 Sep 2026

The Excellence Award Submissions will close on 25 Sep 2026.

Judging Process

October

Judges will go through submissions and decide on the finalists.

Finalists Announced

November

The award finalists will be announced in November.

Darren Shand

Guest Speaker: Darren Shand

Widely respected for his transformative impact on New Zealand sport, Darren Shand was the All Blacks Manager from 2004 to 2023—an era often hailed as the team’s golden age. Under his leadership, the All Blacks clinched back-to-back Rugby World Cup victories in 2011 and 2015, triumphed in fifteen Tri Nations and Rugby Championship titles, and completed Grand Slam tours of the Home Nations in 2005, 2008, and 2010. Their dominance saw them named World Rugby Team of the Year ten times and recognised globally as World Sports Team of the Year at the 2015 Laureus Awards.

With a Bachelor of Physical Education from Otago University, Darren’s early career included a pivotal role as Marketing Manager for AJ Hackett Bungy, helping define Queenstown’s adventure tourism brand. His talent for culture-building was later recognised by Swiss multi-national pharmaceutical company, Novartis, where he joined their Culture and Leadership Advisory Board in 2023.

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Running alongside the Excellence Awards, this one‑day program will feature a fantastic program to bring local government, central agencies and industry together to share practical solutions for resilient, sustainable infrastructure across Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Award Sponsors

Geotab

Principal Sponsor and Category Sponsor: Young IPWEA Emerging Leader

Geotab is a global leader in connected vehicle and asset management solutions, with headquarters in Oakville, Ontario. Our mission is to make the world safer, more efficient, and sustainable. We leverage advanced data analytics and AI to transform fleet performance and operations, reducing cost and driving efficiency. We serve approximately 100,000 global customers, processing 100 billion data points daily from more than 5 million vehicle subscriptions. Geotab is trusted by Fortune 500 organisations, mid-sized fleets, and the largest public sector fleets in the world. Our open platform, ecosystem of outstanding partners, and Geotab Marketplace deliver hundreds of fleet-ready third-party solutions.

Smartrak

Category Sponsor: Excellence in Road Safety

Smartrak is a technology company specialising in fleet, asset and workforce management solutions across Australia and New Zealand. They provide an integrated platform that covers GPS tracking, electric vehicle (EV) fleet management, key management, driver safety, lone-worker protection and non-powered asset tracking.

Morphum Environmental

Category Sponsor: Excellence in Environment & Sustainability

Kia ora, we're Morphum. With over 20 years of experience, we've delivered thousands of high-quality environmental engineering, science, sustainability, and geospatial projects across Aotearoa & Australia. We're driven by our founding vision - to create environmental change and sustainable outcomes that ensure a thriving ecosystem for generations to come. Together with our clients and partners, we can engine a legacy to be proud of.

McConnell Dowell

Category Sponsor: Excellence in Water Project

McConnell Dowell has delivered complex, innovative infrastructure across New Zealand and the Pacific for over 65 years, earning its reputation as the Creative Construction Company. The team leads integrated water solutions, providing resilient water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure for communities. Key New Zealand projects include the award‑winning Warkworth to Snells Wastewater Transfer Pipeline, delivered using Direct Pipe® trenchless technology to protect the Mahurangi River while achieving a more efficient, low‑impact wastewater outcome.

Brightly

Principal Sponsor

Brightly Software, a Siemens company, enables organisations to successfully plan, maintain, and sustain the entire lifecycle of their assets, facilities and infrastructure. As the global leader in intelligent asset management solutions for more than 25 years, Brightly’s sophisticated cloud-based platform is expertly designed to improve capital planning through smarter, data-driven decision making, empower technicians to predict, prioritise and manage preventative maintenance activities, and support organisations to achieve sustainability, compliance and efficiency goals. Combined with award-winning training, legendary support and managed services, more than 12,000 clients worldwide depend on Brightly to optimise their teams, operations and strategic planning initiatives. Visit brightlysoftware.com

Geotab

Keynote Speaker Sponsor

Geotab is advancing security, connecting commercial vehicles to the cloud and providing data-driven analytics to help customers better manage their fleets. Geotab's open platform and Marketplace, offering hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with their other data assets. As an IoT hub, the in-vehicle device provides additional functionality through IOX Add-Ons. Processing billions of data points a day, Geotab leverages data analytics and machine learning to help customers improve productivity, optimize fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety, and achieve strong compliance to regulatory changes. Geotab’s products are represented and sold worldwide through Authorized Geotab Resellers. To learn more, please visit www.geotab.com.au

Morphum

Category Sponsor (Excellence in Environment & Sustainability)

Morphum Environmental is an environmental engineering, environmental science, geospatial services and sustainability consultancy with offices in Melbourne, Auckland, Christchurch, Waikato, Wellington and Nelson. For over 20 years we have been co-creating thriving ecosystems with our partners and clients by providing pragmatic infrastructure and environmental solutions, driven by multi-disciplinary collaboration and community decision making. For more on how we can co-create a thriving ecosystem, please visit https://www.morphum.com/ 

MCD

Category Sponsor (Excellence in Water Project)

McConnell Dowell was founded over 60 years ago by two entrepreneurial New Zealanders who valued smart engineering and construction. That’s why we’re known as the Creative Construction company. Since that beginning, we’ve built thousands of quality assets and facilities for customers and communities across four continents. Our expertise has grown to be truly multi-disciplinary, spanning building, civil, electrical, fabrication, marine, mechanical, pipelines, rail, tunnel and underground construction. We are a Purpose and Values driven organisation; delivering projects that connect, support and sustain communities, and living our values of Safety & Care, Honest & Integrity, Customer Focus, Performance Excellence and Working Together. Our expertise in water and wastewater solutions covers drinking, waste and stormwater, with successful projects in capture, storage, treatment, distribution and disposal. We’ve designed and delivered some of the largest, most modern and complex wastewater treatment plants in New Zealand. We have upgraded plants and pump stations to ensure water security and wastewater treatment for urban and rural communities. We are experts in large diameter pipeline construction and have delivered water pipelines up to 1800 mm (70”) in diameter. Our in-house specialist skills and plant enable execution of HDD, micro-tunnelling, Direct Pipe® and other complex trenchless solutions.