Our services
BBO are a multi-disciplinary team of professional consultants. The services we provide are tailored to ensure true collaboration with our clients to deliver first class project outcomes.
Infrastructure Engineering
Infrastructure Engineering
A forward-thinking and innovative approach by BBO’s Infrastructure Engineering team has seen the successful delivery of many major projects throughout New Zealand.
The geometric design of transport corridors is one of BBO’s core infrastructure services. This encompasses the design of major state highway projects, local council and land development networks, and roading access for developments such as wind farms.
Design infrastructure services are also provided for:
- Pavements
- Intersections
- Road safety improvements
- Urban mobility facilities
- Carparks
- Earthworks
- Erosion and sediment control devices
- Stormwater, water, and wastewater reticulation, including pump stations
The Project Delivery component of BBO’s Infrastructure team is all about making stuff happen. The team’s many years of collective project experience provide direction and ensures a focus on project delivery. The Project Delivery team is typically the ‘front-face’ for the delivery of our infrastructure projects, and provides an integral link between the client and the wider BBO team. The team specialises in providing project and design management but also has specialist skills in project procurement, cost estimation, programming, and business case development.
The Infrastructure team also includes Operational Processes support – a young team highly praised by our clients and rapidly building a solid reputation for efficiency and quality outputs. The team is all about working smarter, building consistency, regulatory compliance, and developing evidence-based processes and programme outcomes.
The Operational Processes team has developed a solid knowledge of transport funding policies through the delivery of the State Highway Corridor Maintenance Memorandum of Understanding for Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency with local road controlling authorities. The team also contributes to the improvement of state highway corridor access; land use and road user customer interaction management processes; and specialises in supporting streamlined processes by assessing, evaluating, mapping, trialling, implementing, and measuring smarter practices.
BBO’s infrastructure team is highly regarded within the industry, and with a diverse skillset and a wide range of experience and knowledge, the team provides cost-effective quality designs and solutions to any project specification across the full lifecycle of a project from strategic case to construction.
Professional affiliations include Engineering New Zealand and a range of other national and international bodies.
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Maclean Hastie
Infrastructure Engineering Manager
BE (Hons) (Civil), NZCE, MIPENZ, CPEng, IntPE, MICE, CEng
Construction Monitoring
Construction Monitoring
BBO’s construction monitoring team offers a full ambit of services to manage, observe and monitor the performance of the physical works contract. This provides the client with independent verification and confidence that works have been completed in accordance with specified requirements.
Most construction projects are unique and complex in detail and to meet this our team is qualified to provide the following services:
- Engineer to Contract and Representatives as required under NZS 3910:2013
- Value Engineering
- Risk assessment
- Programme review
- Management Plan review
- Processing of progress claims and assessing variations
- Site Observation and reporting
- Technical queries relating to Design and Specification
- Quality Control Audits
- Health and Safety Audits
- Traffic Management Audits
- Stakeholder Liaison
- Random Verification Testing
- Monitoring of Environmental and Consent Compliance
- Contract close-out review of Producer Statements, As-Builts, and final QA documentation
- Pavement Coring Services
BBO’s construction monitoring team has a diverse skill set with a wide range of knowledge and experience and is highly regarded within the industry. Our main professional affiliation is Engineering New Zealand.
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Structural Engineering
Structural Engineering
The design of bridges and other civil engineering structures is one of BBO’s core business activities. Its structural design team has successfully delivered a diverse range of technically challenging projects throughout New Zealand and Asia.
Structural work centres on two main undertakings:
- The first includes all aspects of engineering of new bridges and other structures including building foundations, retaining walls, and basements, from the evaluation of alternatives and concept development through detailed design to construction oversight.
- The second comprises engineering inputs to existing structures, involving inspection and maintenance recommendations, and a range of one-off tasks such as retrofitting and strengthening.
In both activity groups, structural work is typically integrated with BBO’s infrastructure and planning resources to provide a seamless service.
BBO’s structural engineering involvement is dominated by bridges and wind farm foundations, but also includes industrial structures and conventional buildings.
Our structural engineering team incorporates a wide range of experience and proficiency and offers clients a comprehensive service in this field. Professional affiliations include Engineering New Zealand and a range of other national and international bodies.
For any related enquiries, please contact:
Pang Chong Heng
Director / Structural Engineering Manager
MSc (Civil), BEng (Civil), CPEng, CMEngNZ, IntPE, M.ASCE, MIEM, PE (Singapore)
Water Resource Engineering
Water Resource Engineering
BBO’s water resource engineering team is highly regarded within the industry. The team’s professional engineers and specialists provide a wide range of consulting, design, and modelling services for infrastructure and development projects.
Water resource services include:
Domestic Water Supply - design, modelling, and construction coordination for bulk mains, water mains, and reservoirs. Our Water Resource Engineers also provide water network modelling for infrastructure planning and design.
Wastewater - design, modelling, and construction coordination for pressure and gravity wastewater systems, and more recently - bulk mains, pump stations, and general gravity networks. The Water Resource team also provides modelling for planning and infrastructure design.
Stormwater - providing extensive stormwater management services that include stormwater management plans, integrated catchment management plans, complex river/stream outfalls, as well as stormwater conveyance, treatment, and attenuation systems. The water resource team also provides hydrological studies and investigations.
Rivers and Streams - providing extensive river and stream hydraulics design including stream/riverbank stabilisation, stream bed stabilisation, stream realignments (urban and rural), and bridge hydraulics (including flood effects, bridge scour, and debris loading). The water resource team also has extensive experience with the design of large culverts that allow fish passage, and work with the natural sediment and bedload transport of the waterways. In addition to design, the team also provides erosion and scour studies and assessments, as well as flood investigations and assessments.
Additional Services - BBO’s water resource engineering team also provides peer reviewer services, 3 water impact assessments, and principal advisory services on large infrastructure projects.
BBO’s water resource engineering team has a strong record of providing innovative solutions to complex problems while maximising environmental and aesthetic value, and still maintaining cost-effectiveness. Professional affiliations include Engineering New Zealand, Water New Zealand, and a range of other national and international bodies.
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Traffic & Transportation Engineering
Traffic & Transportation Engineering
BBO’s traffic and transportation engineering team provide a vast range of skills and experience to deliver all services required within this professional discipline.
Transport Planning – transportation advice for rezoning and changes to district plan rules, structure plans, and master plans for a range of clients including local authorities, land-use planners, land developers, architects, civil engineers, and service providers. Our inputs facilitate the integration of sustainable transport concepts and solutions into the client’s masterplan objectives, resulting in well-functioning urban environments.
Transportation / Traffic Assessments – the preparation of Integrated Transport Assessments (ITA) and Traffic Impact Assessments (TIA) for all types of developments that require rezoning and/or resource consents. These assessments identify the effects of a new development where transport demand is generated on the surrounding transport network and identify any mitigating measures that may be required. They often involve intersection performance analysis, pedestrian and cyclist accessibility and safety assessments, parking provision, access arrangements, internal site circulation, and liaison with the relevant transport authorities.
We also provide expert witness traffic and transportation engineering evidence at Local Authority and Environment Court hearings.
Transport Modelling – we use industry recognised software such as PTV Vissim (micro-simulation), and SIDRA Intersection, and LinSig to test the capacity and performance effects of proposed road network improvements, and to study the extent of impacts of land-use developments.
- PTV Vissim: a detailed traffic micro-simulation software package, used to accurately model all modes of transport interaction in multifaceted urban network environments. It is highly valuable for visually demonstrating traffic behaviour in complex scenarios including the effects of queues, lane changes, weaving, and merging.
- SIDRA: an analytical software package for modelling traffic at signal, give-way, and roundabout intersections, as well as access ways to roads.
- LinSig: software for assessing closely spaced signalised intersections, or signalised roundabouts.
BBO’s traffic and transportation team also undertake the analysis of large-scale development transport effects on the wider network, using scenario testing in the Waikato Regional Transportation Model (WRTM).
Road Safety Audits and Studies - a formal and structured process for the assessment of the safety aspects of road projects. Our fully accredited road safety engineers are experienced in all stages of road safety review including preliminary design, detailed design, and post-construction. Senior members of our team have completed the Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency Safe System Engineering Workshop.
Services provided include safe system road safety design, road safety audits, walking and cycling safety in design, and crash reduction studies for both urban and rural networks.
Other traffic and transport engineering related professional services include:
- Traffic signal crossing and intersection design
- Roundabout, traffic signal, give-way, and stop controlled intersection capacity assessments
- Transportation/traffic model peer reviews to NZ industry guidelines
Professional affiliations include Engineering New Zealand and other international bodies.
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Planning
Planning
BBO’s planning team is widely recognised, dynamic and outcome-focused. The planning team has the experience to assist in all aspects of resource management and environmental planning including transport, infrastructure (e.g. highway and wind farm developments), aggregate extraction, urban renewal, land subdivision and development, feasibility studies, and urban design. Our services also extend to public policy development for councils and private clients through the preparation of plan change requests, notices of requirement, and structure plans.
Specific planning services provided by BBO include:
- Resource Consents
- Subdivision Consents
- Planning and Strategic Policy
- Assessments of Environmental Effects
- Engagement and Consultation Processes
- Feasibility Studies
- Plan Change Requests
- Notices of Requirement
Planning is a creative interdisciplinary field. Our planners have a wide understanding of many technical disciplines and have established networks with engineers, surveyors, architects, ecologists, acoustic consultants, and landscape architects. We use our knowledge to challenge experts for the betterment of your project.
No matter the size or complexity of your project, as professional members of the New Zealand Planning Institute, BBO’s planning team will work with you to ensure a successful outcome.
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Land Development
Land Development
BBO’s land development team is an integral specialist part of the wider infrastructure team and encompasses all disciplines/services that BBO provides across the full lifecycle of land development projects from strategic case and feasibility, to construction.
The land development team’s expertise includes planning, civil design, traffic engineering, stormwater engineering, construction supervision, and surveying services for all aspects of residential, commercial, and industrial land development. This holistic approach enables us to take ownership of the entire process thereby avoiding scope gaps and misunderstandings and providing maximum efficiency.
Our expertise in residential, industrial, commercial, rural, and subdivision development includes:
- Legal survey, fee simple, and unit title developments
- Pre-development scoping and cost estimations
- Industrial, commercial, rural, and residential development - from concept to title
- Bulk earthworks design and strategy
- Civil design
The land development team’s licensed cadastral surveyors and engineers allow us to offer practical, cost-effective design solutions for both engineering and property rights.
Professional affiliations include Engineering New Zealand, and Survey and Spatial NZ.
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