Vitruvius is proud to be supporting the delivery of the Putauaki Kawerau Container Terminal (PKCT). This is a landmark infrastructure project that will establish a new rail freight hub for the Eastern Bay of Plenty and unlock long‑term economic benefits for the region.

We are currently assisting PKCT by overseeing construction supervision and providing surveying set-out services for a complex and tightly scheduled build. Our role spans end‑to‑end engineering and planning services, including rail design, stormwater assessment, traffic impact assessment, civil and roading design, integrated stormwater management, and working closely with Engeo to undertake the specialist geotechnical investigations and design.

Supported by the Provincial Growth Fund, this initiative represents over five years of planning and serves as a pivotal driver for enhancing regional supply chains and supporting local industry within the Eastern Bay of Plenty.

Once operational, PKCT is expected to remove up to approximately 18,000 heavy truck movements from surrounding roads each year, reducing congestion, improving safety, and delivering meaningful reductions in CO₂ emissions.

The project is now well into its construction phase. Over the Christmas break, Vitruvius worked closely with the Contractor and the Principal to deliver the important first stage of the programme, setting the project up for a strong start. Taking advantage of the Christmas block of line, we reinstated more than 200 metres of existing track.

As the project progresses toward its planned opening in mid‑2026, our team will continue working alongside the contractor and PKCT to deliver:

• a new 750 metre long loading platform
• approximately 1.2 kilometres of new heavy duty rail track
• more than one hectare of new container storage area
• around 100,000 cubic metres of earthworks and imported fill
• new stormwater storage and road access infrastructure.

The PKCT project reflects Vitruvius’ broader capability to deliver complex infrastructure projects that will make a real difference to the region and local community. We are proud of the progress achieved to date and look forward to continuing our contribution as this important project reaches its next milestones.

The post A Transformational Regional Project for Smarter, Safer Supply Chains appeared first on Vitruvius.

Digital enablement isn’t about platforms or buzzwords. For our clients, it’s about confidence. Confidence that the right information is available, decisions are well informed, and complex projects are delivered with clarity and control.

At Vitruvius, our digital journey has been deliberately shaped around that outcome. Our focus has been on building connected, reliable information environments that support collaboration, reduce risk, and unlock value across the full lifecycle of assets.

That journey accelerated in 2023 as remote collaboration became standard and expectations for digital‑first delivery continued to rise. We invested in our first Common Data Environment, a single, trusted source of truth for project information. For our clients, this means greater transparency, fewer disconnects, and confidence that everyone is working from the same, up to date data.

In 2024, we formalised this approach by aligning with ISO 19650, the international standard for information management. Members of our team and Digital Management Group achieved Operam Certified Professional accreditation, ensuring our processes align with global best practice and provide a consistent framework for how information flows from design through to delivery and operations.

Today, digital delivery and strong information management are embedded across the entire business. These processes are used by everyone, from business support and project teams through to senior leadership, regardless of discipline or role. Digital Engineering is not a specialist service bolted on to projects; it’s simply how we work. Since joining Vitruvius as Digital Lead in 2025, I have been focussed on providing clear oversight and direction, helping connect teams, embed consistent practices, and ensure our digital capability continues to evolve in a practical, scalable way.

More of our projects are now delivered using collaborative digital methodologies, supported by platforms such as Autodesk Construction Cloud and Revizto, enabling teams and clients to work together around shared models and data.

The same principles underpin our Project Controls approach. Real-time visibility of progress, cost and risk doesn’t come from any single tool, it comes from the discipline of connecting them. Our controls environment brings together contract data, forecasting and programme reporting in a way that supports confident decision-making, not just compliance. For clients running complex programmes, that clarity is often where the most value is found.

Accurate digital delivery also depends on understanding what exists on the ground. Our survey teams use the latest field capture technologies to produce high quality datasets that add real world context to our models. We’ve also been exploring classified point clouds as a flexible and efficient alternative to traditional scan‑to‑BIM workflows.

GIS plays a growing role across our projects, supporting hydraulic and stormwater analysis and bridging the gap between calculations and CAD based design. It is also embedded in our asset handover processes, linking spatial data to asset identifiers and metadata to support long term asset management. In utility mapping, this allows us to capture not just where services are, but what they are and how confidently they’ve been identified, reducing risk during excavation and construction.

The rapid advancement of AI and analytics has reinforced the importance of this work. While our industry is highly capable at generating data, real value comes from connecting it. Our focus now is on breaking down silos and enabling information to flow from design to delivery and into operation, supporting real time insights, richer visualisation and smarter decision‑making.

And while this is underpinned by robust systems and technical expertise, it’s ultimately driven by people. Recently, while spending time with our Tauranga team, that mindset came through clearly. What began as a conversation about next‑step digital capability ended with a full floor to ceiling server rack being dismantled so it could fit into the back of my car and make the journey back to Auckland. It wasn’t planned, but it removed a barrier and accelerated what comes next.

With strong foundations in place and the right people driving them forward, we’re excited about what this means for our clients and the communities we work with.

Digital, done right.

The post Digital – The Make or Break of Architecture, Engineering and Construction appeared first on Vitruvius.