Being called out to check a landslip or car smash that’s impacted a vital transport link takes resilience and adaptability. It happens more often than you might think and is all in a day’s (or night’s) work for on-call engineers at the Waka Kotahi Wellington Transport Alliance.

Travellers on State Highway 1 into and out of Wellington may have noticed quite the feat of engineering on the steep cliffs of Ngauranga Gorge over the holiday break.

Sunday marked the end of a long and arduous engineering effort along one of the main routes between Nelson and Blenheim. WSP is immensely proud to have worked alongside Waka Kotahi and Fulton Hogan to reopen this stretch of State Highway 6.

We are thrilled to have been recognized for leadership in corporate transparency and performance on climate change by global environmental non-profit CDP, securing a place on its annual 'A List'. 

What a way to end the year. This week, six WSP engineers were recognised as Fellows of Engineering NZ. Hearty congratulations go to Evan Giles, Raed El Sarraf, Rob Bond, Robert Swears, Rishen Maharaj and Wayne Hatcher.

WSP is pleased to announce an agreement to acquire enstruct, a 75-employee structural engineering firm with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, noted for designing and delivering quality building projects throughout Australia.

Boring through ice and volcanic rock in sub-zero temperatures and howling gales is no mean feat. It’s a carefully planned job that requires equal parts stamina and teamwork, says WSP’s Latasha Templeton who recently returned from a three-week drilling stint at Scott Base, Antarctica.

WSP is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement to acquire BG Bonnard & Gardel Holding SA (“BG Consulting Engineers” or “BG”), one of Switzerland’s leading engineering consulting firms, with a strong presence in France.

With its Biodiversity Statement, WSP has now a set of guiding principles aimed at enabling WSP to engage with our clients to protect, restore, and enhance ecosystems.

‘Tall excellence: seeking the ideal in vertical urbanism’ was the theme of the 2022 Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Conference, which took place in Chicago from 9-12th November.

We’re delighted that 12 of our projects won Awards of Excellence and we have been ranked as the #1 engineering company in CTBUH’s latest publication: The World’s 118 Tallest Buildings. 

From riding horses on the central plateau to getting among the mountains, rivers and lakes that surround her hometown of Tūrangi, the natural environment has played a major role in the life of 2022 Papa Pounamu Whakatutukitanga Scholarship recipient Te Riria Potiki (Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāi Tahu/Kāi Tahu and Ngāi Tūhoe).

Two bills that will ultimately replace the longstanding Resource Management Act (RMA) have just begun their journey through Aotearoa New Zealand’s legislative process. WSP technical principals for planning Steph Brown and Justine Bray have looked at the ‘designations’ part of the new bills and like what they see.