The Āpōpō Awards

The Āpōpō Awards celebrate and recognise projects and initiatives that demonstrate infrastructure asset management excellence, reflecting the pinnacle of achievement in the industry. Categories include, the Innovation Award, the Leadership Award, the Improvement Award, the Community Award and the Sustainability Award.

2025 Excellence Award Finalists

Ara Poutama Aotearoa - Department of Corrections in collaboration with KPMG.

Measuring quality of Corrections' health assets

Fulton Hogan in collaboration with New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi.

SH73 Candy’s Creek Bridge - Rock Shelter

Fulton Hogan in collaboration with Wellington Water.

Te Mārua Water Treatment Plant Optimisation Project

Hamilton City Council in collaboration with Southern Links Tangata Whenua Working Group, Gray Matter, Bloxam Burnett & Oliver, Edwards White Architects & HEB Construction.

Peacocke Network Infrastructure - Strategic Northern Connections

McConnell Dowell in collaboration with Auckland Council Healthy Waters & Flood Resilience, Awa Environmental & Hynds Pipe Systems.

Greville Road Stormwater Culvert Upgrade

New Zealand Transport Agency in collaboration with WSP & Downer Group.

Cyclone Gabrielle Bailey Bridge Response

Tararua District Council in collaboration with Tararua Alliance & Downer Group.

Huarahi Tūhono - Route 52 Upgrade Project

Waitaki District Council in collaboration with Morrison Low, Waste Management New Zealand, Fulton Hogan, Tonkin + Taylor & GHC Consulting.

Project Reclaim - Excellence in collaboration

Westland District Council in collaboration with Creo Space.

The Cool Little Playground

WSP in collaboration with New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi.

Asset Management Data Standard Multimodal Network Model

Hynds Paper of the Year

The Hynds Award was established by John Hynds in 1990 to encourage Āpōpō members to improve their presentation skills, by presenting papers on asset management and engineering for infrastructure.

2025 Finalists:

Andrew Gatland, Asset Dynamics; Cam Gordon, Auckland Transport

The ‘what’ of asset management – The role of the Asset Management Framework in improving infrastructure organisations

Courtney McCrostie, Stantec

Enhancing Transport Access & Resilience in Marlborough Sounds: Rethinking (reduced) Levels of Service and Affordability

Bridget O'Brien, WSP; Robert van Bentum, Ministry of Education

Improving the safety of drinking water supplies for 460 schools across Aotearoa

Emerging Professionals

The Emerging Professionals Presentation Competition is a space for members new to the industry to show off their presentation skills.

2025 finalists:

Danika Ferguson, & Jon Tweed, Beca

Value-Driven Design: Ashburton’s Approach to Safe Drinking Water

Marie Socorro Li, Palmerston North City Council

Tomorrow's History, Today's Infrastructure

Maria Trass, WSP

We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it

Poster Competition

The 2025 Āpōpō Congress Poster Competition is an opportunity to inspire an audience of infrastructure asset management professionals attending the Congress through an engaging and informative poster presentation.

Entries are welcome on any topic of relevance to the infrastructure asset management profession. The competition is open to all Āpōpō Members.

This year there are two categories “Best Student Poster” and “Best Open Poster”.

Entries: Closed.

Scholarships

Āpōpō has a long-standing history of supporting our infrastructure asset management leaders of both today and tomorrow through scholarships.

Āpōpō scholarships are designed to advance the careers of infrastructure asset management professionals.

Scholarships include the Young Leader Scholarship, the Priyani de Silva-Currie Emerging Asset Management Professional Scholarship, the Emerging Governance Scholarship and the Senior Professional Scholarship.