Nik is a highly experienced transport economist, logistics planner, planning engineer and teaching professional with a successful record in economic analysis, strategic planning, business case development and staff and client training.  He was the leader of the working group that developed a road planning classification system for the Auckland region as part of the Regional Arterial Road Plan Review and was a member of the working group that developed the ONRC for the Transport Agency for planning and funding purposes. He has assisted with the delivery of cross-organisational projects at both regional and national levels.

Nik was a member of the working group that enabled the development of identified greenfield areas in Auckland to accommodate growth through the Section 32 requirements of the Resource Management Act and a member of the Australasian team that analysed the costs of developing social infrastructure inside and outside Auckland’s urban boundaries.

Nik assisted the Transport Agency’s research by being a member of the steering group evaluating research proposals for national funding. He has provided expert transport economic advice to ARTA and the Transport Agency, and assisted with the development of methods to measure transport performance and costs, as well as the provision of alternative funding scenarios.  As a member of Auckland Transport, he provided feedback on numerous national  and regional strategic plans including the New Zealand Transport Strategy, the Ministry of Transport’s Knowledge Hubs, the Auckland Regional Land Transport Plan, the Energy Strategy and Treasury’s Infrastructure Plan.

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Joanna Saywell is a civil engineer with 35 years’ experience in land development and asset management (three waters). Her early career as a consultant for developers, contractors and commercial clients was spent in planning, designing and building infrastructure for housing and commercial developments to help them meet client and consent requirements as efficiently as possible.

More recently, she has been an Asset Manager working in Porirua City, Manawatu and Rangitikei. Her background in design and project management has helped her understand and plan asset improvements and renewals to align with changing legislative requirements and constraints. Joanna works out of our Wellington office.

Her particular skills include:

• Resource consent procurement and compliance for civil engineering projects
• Stormwater management, attenuation and treatment
• Water supply and design of supply systems, bores, reservoirs, pumping and treatment
• Wastewater network design, rehabilitation, improvement and treatment
• Asset management of infrastructure
• Land development including design and supervision of earthworks
• Roading design and improvements

When not at work, Joanna likes to dance, read, garden, invest in property (currently she is Secretary for the Property Investors Federation) and play with her great nieces and nephews.