Themes the panel will discuss include:

• Construction in New Zealand: changes on the horizon
• Development growth: the influence of regulatory and economic factors
• Build-to-rent: is it here to stay?
• Natural disasters and severe weather events: shaping New Zealand’s future construction landscape
• Looking ahead: the industry’s biggest opportunities in 2023.

The panel discussion will take place at BuildNZ on Tuesday 20 June, from 12 noon–1pm.

Key particpants in the panel featured recently in the inugural BCI Construction League Report. The free report ranks building firms by the total value of projects that commenced construction in 2022. 

Speaker line-up

Moderator: Ashleigh Porter – Chief Operating Officer ANZ, BCI Central

With more than 15 years of experience in the industry, Ashleigh is at the helm of BCI’s data and plays a key role in developing solutions that support BCI clients in taking their business to new levels. Ashleigh uses BCI data to create business intelligence that maximises productivity, profit and growth.

Michelle Aizenberg – Chief Data Officer, BCI Central

With a focus on driving project research quality and practices, Michelle oversees the development of BCI’s data and research resources and the overall management of the operations across Asia, USA, Australia and New Zealand. With almost two decades of experience in the industry, Michelle is an expert in the global construction landscape.

Bruno Goedeke – Regional Director, Auckland, Naylor Love

Bruno has more than 20 years of commercial, contractual and management construction expertise, developed both here and in the international arena. He has an extensive knowledge of the Auckland consultant and construction sectors. Previously manager of a quantity surveying consultancy, he brings a relationship-based management style to his current role of regional manager, Auckland.

Paul O’Brien – General Manager, Commercial, Dominion Constructors

Paul has more than 30 years experience in the construction industry, with more than half of that in New Zealand. He has a dual background in Quantity Surveying and Law and has spent over half his career in senior management roles. Paul is a director of Masterspec (Construction Information Limited) and holds other directorships. In addition, he is presently a member of the Building Disputes Tribunal Adjudication and DRB panels.

Simon Wall – General Manager, Strategic Relationships, Apollo Projects

Simon is a Chartered Professional Structural Engineer and Multidisciplinary Design Manager who has worked the majority of his career in consulting. He now works as a Relationship Manager and Design Manager for Apollo Projects, a Design and Build Construction company. Simon has worked throughout New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates and the UK, delivering projects across a wide range of project sizes and sectors, including Commercial, Residential, Industrial, Sports and Recreation and Aviation.

Dan Oliver – Commercial Manager, Hero International Limited

Dan is a residential building and development professional with experience across multiple sectors of the New Zealand and UK residential building industry, including construction, supply chain, consultancy and development planning/execution. With a focus on volume residential building and development, Dan’s 2-IC role as Commercial Manager for Hero International has seen the business grow to one of New Zealand’s largest privately owned residential building companies, delivering hundreds of affordable houses under the KiwiBuild scheme and branching into increasingly intensive build methodologies to help New Zealand meet its changing housing needs.

Lisa Hinton – Board Member, Chair, UDINZ

Lisa is a founding director of Context Architects, an 80-strong architectural practice working nationwide on master planning, residential developments and social housing projects. Context’s purpose is to lift people’s lives through the power of design and to make good design accessible to the many, with her team having designed over 1600 homes in the last two years.

Event registration: Here

BuildNZ event dates: Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 June, 2023

CPD: 10 NZRAB points are available for attending this session