The Motueka River floods often, putting community safety and assets at risk. The existing flood protection stopbanks are currently being upgraded to improve flood resilience to provide protection to homes, businesses, productive land and infrastructure in the Motueka and Riwaka townships.

We have been involved in the project in several ways:

• Part of Council’s delivery team in all upfront planning, land access agreements, site scoping, budgeting, external funder reporting, overall cost forecasting, and tracking
• Acted as Principal’s Advisor for programme delivery
• Led initial funding applications and advised Council on a long-term strategic plan to safeguard material sources – for future stopbank material, emergency use, and to open the tender process to all appropriate earthworks contractors rather than only those who owned the material.

Stakeholder management has been critical on this programme of works. More than 61 different landowners and occupiers have been involved, necessitating extensive liaison to gain access and work around the seasonal activities of husbandry farming and horticulture.

Services: Principal’s Advisor | Peer review of tender documents | Tender negotiations | Stakeholder management | Commercial verification

Team: Brendon Silcock | Jono Rose | Paul Duffy | Kim Keown