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Important update for NZIQS members RICS has recently updated its requirements for Direct Entry to MRICS, now known as the Recognition of Professional Qualification (RPQ) pathway. Under the new update, NZIQS Registered Members now need 5 years of relevant experience post-membership (previously 10 years) to be eligible, to apply for MRICS membership via the RPQ route.
NZS 3910:2023 Contract Essentials & Dispute Procedures Upcoming training course: 13 October 2026 This critical two-day training course covers NZS 3910 which has been recently updated and anyone who is involved with contract management in the construction sector, or whose daily work is governed by the laws and regulations of the construction and property industry, needs to be aware of the important changes included within NZS 3910:2023.
Contract Law for Non-Lawyers Upcoming training courses: 4 August 2026 3 November 2026 5 November 2026 This popular training course is an intensely practical guide through the essentials of contract law, exploring such details as when a contract will be required, when you have a contract (and don’t necessarily know it), what types of contract exist and the effect of statutes on your contractual arrangements.
The New Zealand Risk & Resilience Summit will feature key learnings and insights from around the world which are relevant and can be applied in New Zealand. This includes; strategic planning, risk and resilience modelling through to organisational culture, operations and a broader view of supplier, customer, sector, community networks and relationship strategies. What does resilience look like for the business, the risk leaders, c-suite, community leaders and our vulnerable. How can we create a better future where we ensure we have the best information and learnings from a much wider perspective?
Transport agencies in New Zealand are expected to deliver infrastructure that is safe, reliable and resilient, while responding to environmental pressures such as a loss of biodiversity and the need to protect cultural heritage. Case studies in the Austroads report cover overarching sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change resilience, the circular economy, biodiversity, human health and heritage.
People are living longer, but those extra years are increasingly spent in poor health –- each additional year of life expectancy comes with about six more months of illness or disability. Improving health span is no longer solely a healthcare challenge, but an economic and societal priority. Here’s what drives it and what can be done.
The New Zealand Project Management Conference is a two-day event for project professionals to connect, learn, and celebrate the achievements driving the profession forward. Celebrating excellence in project management, the PMINZ Awards represent the pinnacle of project management recognition in New Zealand. These awards honour the individuals, teams, and organisations who are shaping the future of our profession and delivering meaningful impact to our communities.
Organic household waste treated through anaerobic digestion, yields both biogas and digestate. Often there is no small-scale local processing route for the digestate. It is transported outside the local area, with attendant haulage costs and carbon emissions. A new pilot project underway in Italy composts and returns the valuable nutrients to local soils.
The leaders who will thrive in this new era will be those who meet the AI moment by focusing on capabilities that only humans can provide — setting aspirations, making tough decisions and generating original ideas. It’s more important than ever for leaders to get their human centric responsibilities right, says McKinsey
New Zealanders are being called on to double check their lifejackets before going out on the water, due to a fault found in an inflator mechanism which may result in jackets not inflating as expected. The call comes from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and Maritime New Zealand, who say there are more than 21,000 affected units throughout New Zealand.
Across the infrastructure and construction sectors, material passports are emerging as a promising tool for enabling circularity. They’re often described as a “bank of materials. After all, they catalogue the materials embedded within a building so they can be withdrawn at the end of life and reused elsewhere. I now see material passports as closer in spirit to a donor organ registry than to a financial ledger, say HERA’s Troy Coyle
Back in 2018, Whangārei Airport had a problem — its aging runway was starting to unravel like a well-worn jersey, thanks to heavy oxidation. A full asphalt resurface? That was way out of the budget. In Whangarei that meant extending the life of the runway by improving its watertightness and slowing oxidation. Comprehensive reviews were conducted in year two and year six. EnviroShield provided faster, more cost-effective alternative to conventional resurfacing — delivering long-lasting protection without the hefty price tag
Australia’s toll roads are mainly built and operated by public–private partnership contracts to shift financial risk from government . The New Zealand government is actively encouraging the same funding model here — a private operator finances, builds and maintains a road in return for the right to collect tolls — often for decades at a time. The problem is that investors build these risks back into the contracts they have with governments.
A Future Fund would secure New Zealand’s infrastructure pipeline, a positive step towards long-term, non partisan infrastructure planning, says a member association which promotes best practice for transport, energy, water, telecommunications and social infrastructure. “Labour’s proposed New Zealand Future Fund could also depoliticise key aspects of the funding process – a long overdue move,” says Infrastructure New Zealand chief Nick Leggett. The Future Fund should complement, not replace, other investment tools.
A survey by Content Partner McKinsey reports that nearly nine out of 10 survey respondents say their organizations are regularly using AI although most have not yet embedded them deeply enough into their workflows and processes to realize material enterprise-level benefits. Organizations are also beginning to explore opportunities with AI agents — systems based on foundation models capable of acting in the real world, planning and executing multiple steps in a workflow.
Election year brinksmanship games are underway early with voters promised free doctor visits from one side and now a call for rate caps in 2027 from the incumbent government. Infrastructure New Zealand’s Nick Leggett warns that the Government’s proposed rate capping policy risks weakening councils at a time when the country urgently needs stronger, better-resourced local government to maintain and build the infrastructure that communities rely upon.
Link Financial has partnered with AI technology company Afterburner to transform the workday for hundreds of advisers, loan writers and administrators in Link’s network. Afterburner automates administrative tasks including mortgage recommendations, analysing business financial statements, bank handover forms, compliance documentation and client interview notes, drafting mortgage applications and writing up expert-level communications to clients and banks. Tasks that previously could take up to a couple of hours can now be completed in seconds.
McKinsey takes a 16-country look at the productivity of micro, small and medium-size enterprises which account for more than half of global GDP, make up more than 90 percent of companies worldwide and provide 21 percent of total banking revenue pools. New Zealand was not one of the study countries but Australia was and offers valuable information for SME on both sides of the ditch.
