• Civil Residential Team, Creek Street, Brisbane, Australia of Geoff Curtis, Brad Thompson, Mark Gittins, Chris Howard, Jaco Le Roux, Grant Halcrow, John Semple, Kevin Connolly, Sita McDonald, Damien Peacock, Ashley Garrett, Andrew Jolliffe, Sopath Sem, Nick Dekker and Donna Ladd

Over the last six years this team has grown from a five person team to a 15 person team and has demonstrated a very high level of understanding of the client’s needs.

The Civil Residential team has grown strong, respectful and successful relationships with their clients.  The team’s excellent service delivery can also be shown by the number of projects they have won in the last year not based on fees, but on previous performance. The team leaders are in a position of trust with major clients. They have achieved this through developing strong client relationships; developing a strategy which focused the team’s efforts on a sector of the market; and by working as a cohesive team which provides quality design and documentation using a high level of skill.

The team is acknowledged by the industry as a leader in subdivision and aged care development, and will only continue to grow their strengths in the future.

• NZTA Structural Management Team, Wellington, New Zealand of Jason Hobman, Sam Thornton, Willie Mandeno, Scott Coxon and John Pell

Opus is the NZTA (NZ Transport Agency) Wellington Regional Bridge & Structures Management Consultant.  The structural consulting and asset management services Opus supply to NZTA under this contract are diverse and varied.  Work covers not only large and small bridges but two large tunnels and numerous retaining walls, culverts and sign structures in both urban and rural locations.

Over the five year term of this contract the team has built up an excellent rapport with the client and regularly receives excellent PACE scores, comments and other feedback. 

As well as the excellent relationship with the client, the team has also developed strong relationships with both the Network Consultant and the Network Contractor which provides effective and efficient results to the client.

• Transpower Team for the National Transpower FM Contract, New Zealand of Dave Wilton, Hamilton; Chris Humble, Hamilton; Keith Wright, Hamilton; Andrew Snook, Hamilton; Lisa Brown, Hamilton; Peter Baines, Wellington; Sam Wiffen, Wellington; Karl Kindler, Wellington; Oliver Kirk, Wellington; Nicole Taylor, Wellington; Jacqui Cull, Wellington; Stephen Palmer, Dunedin; Trisha Dunn, Dunedin; Avon Bates, Dunedin; Craig Paterson, Dunedin; Ian Pottinger, Christchurch; and Tony Blanchet, Christchurch

This team has held this contract since 1995.  They have been successful in either repricing or retendering four times.  The present contract was successfully won on sole source tender in 2009 and is due to expire in 2013.  There is the potential for a two year extension to 2015 by agreement.

The team manage all non infrastructural assets for and on behalf of Transpower for 200 major high voltage substations, emergency accommodation units and office accommodation throughout New Zealand.

The contract also requires Opus to maintain the security of the sites which includes approximately 2,500 electronic keys, 4,000 physical keys and a variety of locking systems.

• NZTA National Property Acquisition Team, New Zealand of Robyn Shephard, Auckland; Paula Dugan, Auckland; Carol Barr, Auckland; Doug Snell, Auckland; Oliver Kirk, Wellington; and Robin Whelan, Dunedin

This team come together relatively recently in response to increasing involvement of our property acquisition specialists in NZTA’s (NZ Transport Agency) Roads of National Significance development programme. Opus was successful in winning a place on NZTA’s panel contract for property acquisitions along with just one other.

In many cases the team have simultaneously been commended by NZTA on the speed and efficiency of a difficult acquisition, and by the vendors of the same property for the care, consideration, and support that our team has provided through what is often an extremely emotional process for the owners.

The team regularly exchanges work with other regions to ensure that service delivery occurs in the shortest possible time and draws on the best expertise for the job. The personal sacrifices made by many of the team’s members that have regularly travelled from other regions to work for extended periods of time in the northern region has been fantastic.

The team has been extremely active in creating standards, processes, and protocols for the consistent delivery of property acquisition services to NZTA nationwide. They have given freely of their information, accepted the valuable inputs of other teams, and invested much effort and energy to ensure that all offices involved in the equivalent contracts in the lower North Island and South Island operate to an equally high and consistent level.

• Doncaster Rail Team, United Kingdom of Richard Butterworth, Daniel Sykes, Phillip Taylor, Robert Battrick and Nicola McCarthy

The Doncaster Rail team has gone from strength to strength during 2009, securing an extended Trading Agreement with Amalgamated Construction until March 2011.  A strong team spirit exists with support from all levels which is expressed in regular update meetings. The team has an excellent rapport with the client and this is spread firmly through the raft of AMCO Site Managers and COSS (Controller of Site Safety).

Quality deliverables for each project are delivered time after time with each project creating innovation in reporting styles and production of excellent information making it easier for the client to understand the scheme whilst providing the necessary information.

Opus are seen as an integral part of the proactive mine workings asset management operation.

• East Waikato Network Maintenance Team, Paeroa, New Zealand of John Kaczon, Don Anderson, John Bowers, Basil Hughes, Thomas Wright, Andre Langeveld and Val Cormack

The East Waikato Network Management team has put a great deal of effort into providing a quality service to NZTA (NZ Transport Agency). This has required an extensive knowledge, a high level of team work and a proactive interaction with design and planning teams.

The team has strong relationships with the contractor and other key stakeholders and regularly communicates with all parties to ensure cohesion of core deliverables. The strong relationship and collaborative approach with the Contractor is just one aspect of the team’s performance that is highlighted as strength.

Robust leadership within the team has implemented ongoing development, succession planning, systems, and innovative in-house training to ensure excellent service delivery.