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Waitakere Central wins premier management award
Media Release
27 August, 2007
Waitakere Central wins premier management award
The Waitakere City Council has scooped another award – this time for the way it managed the relocation and restructuring of the organisation as it created Waitakere Central.
Waitakere won the supreme award last night at the New Zealand Post Management Excellence Awards in Wellington which were held at the opening of the Society of Local Government Managers conference.
In 2006 the council centralised its offices, which were previously spread across nine different sites throughout Waitakere, in the heart of Henderson - Waitakere Central.
New Zealand Post manager of local government relations Don Day said it was the way that council managed the relocation and the way in which it kept key stakeholders informed that impressed the judging panel.
“With an increasing importance placed on corporate responsibility these days Waitakere did a great job of meeting the environmental, economic, cultural and social challenges of such a large undertaking,” Mr Day said.
The judges believed that the project delivered a “smart civic space on time and on budget”.
They were also impressed that such a large project was managed with such “transparency of process and decision-making while avoiding unnecessary complexity”.
The council collected a trophy, a framed certificate and $5000 prize money for its win.
Waitakere Central was officially opened in September, 2006 by Prime Minister Helen Clark.
Waitakere Central has brought more than 700 fulltime staff and its 50,000 annual visitors within walking distance of the main business area of Henderson.
The New Zealand Post supreme management award follows hot on the heels of other awards directly related to Waitakere Central – including an award for its strategic location at the New Zealand Property Council, the premier creative places award recognising the way art is integrated into the city by Creative New Zealand, and a structural engineering award at the 2007 Association of Consulting Engineering New Zealand (ACENZ) Awards.
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