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Urbis TPD Limited is your first choice for Transportation Planning, Traffic Engineering, Town Planning and Resource Management.

With experience operating in both the Canterbury region and with clients nationwide, our contracting services are offered to both the private and public sectors.

Urbis TPD Limited can offer expert advice on:

* Transportation Planning including the preparation of traffic effects assessment associated with land development
* Traffic Engineering including the design of roads, site accesses, parking layouts and transport interchange facilities
* Traffic Surveys & Analysis
* Town Planning & Resource Management including the preparation resource consent applications
* Land Development Advice

For more information and for a no-stress land management experience, please contact us today!

WM Group Limited is a specialist environmental consultancy focused on water management assessment and design. 

We offer three types (stormwater, wastewater and water supply) and groundwater assessment, management and design services. 

We assist our clients in obtaining resource consents or carrying out high-quality technical assessments (i.e. preliminary civil infrastructure reports and assessment environmental Effects (AEE's) reports).

Our civil (environmental) engineers and water management specialists provide stormwater management, modelling, technical assessments, mitigation design and assessment of environmental effects. 

We prepare civil infrastructure design reports, stormwater discharge assessment reports, erosion and sediment control plans and detailed design of three water reticulation systems.     

Our hydrogeologists carry out groundwater assessments including 3D groundwater modelling. We have experience in assessing the effects of groundwater dewatering on ground settlement during construction of building basements and other underground structures including tunnels. 

We develop and implement monitoring and contingency plans to support resource consent applications to take/divert groundwater for dewatering projects.  

Our Services include:

* Stormwater management modelling
* Stormwater mitigation scoping and design
* Integrated catchment management modelling
* Civil Infrastructure Design
* Wastewater investigation/assessment and design
* Groundwater resource assessments including 3D groundwater modelling
* Groundwater drawdown assessments for dewatering projects
* Groundwater contaminant transport modelling
* Pumping tests, slug tests and packer tests 
* Hydrological and water quality modelling
* Mine water management
* Erosion and sediment control
* Assessment of environmental effects
* Resource consent applications
* Contaminant load modelling

To find out more, please visit our website or just call us.

Environmental consultants specialised in groundwater and wells.  We can help you with assessment of environmental effects (AEE) of water takes and discharge to land or water, resource consent applications, well location and design, aquifer and well pumping tests, council liaising, compliance monitoring and reporting.

New Zealand wide service

Our services include, but are not limited to the following:

- Resource consent applications & assessment of environmental effects (AEE): Comprehensive or limited assistance from first thoughts to compliance monitoring, including report preparation, liaising with consenting authorities, stakeholders, drillers, etc.

- Pumping tests: Constant rate aquifer tests, step-drawdown well efficiency tests, design, supervision, data analysis, reporting and follow up with consenting authorities.

- Science communication & expert witness: Technical report reviews, client representation in pre-hearing discussions, hearings, Environment Court and community group meetings.

- Compliance monitoring: Manual and automated groundwater level monitoring, groundwater quality sampling, soil moisture, report preparation.

- Water well & well field: Planning, siting, design, contract preparation, drilling supervision, geology and water sampling, yield testing, etc.

- Research & investigations: Site-characterisation, catchment and regional scale resource assessment, groundwater-surface water interaction, seawater intrusion, etc.

- Modelling: 3D geological modelling, groundwater flow and contaminant transport modelling (analytical and numerical), soil moisture balance modelling for assessment of irrigation demand, allocation limits and nutrient loads, groundwater quality (thermodynamic) modelling.

- Training & software deployment: Training on and customised implementation of a variety of off the shelf software packages, including GMS, AHGW, AquaChem, HydroGeo Analyst, etc.

- Other services: Customised databases and information systems, geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping.

No job too small or too big! If you think we can help, drop us a line for friendly obligation-free discussion.

Were always happy to help! If we cant service you, we will let you know who can!

We are a medium sized commercial focused law firm based in Christchurch. We practice in a range of industries and have a broad and expanding base of clients. 

<u>Our expertise includes:</u>
Commercial Law:

- Advising on share and asset acquisitions and dispositions, restructuring, mergers, amalgamations, buyouts and earn outs, private equity investments and venture capital investment, conducting and reporting on due diligence investigations, advising on governance matters, compliance issues and constitutional matters.
- Advising on compliance with Securities Act 1978 and Securities Regulations 1983 including drafting prospectuses, shareholder matters, investment statements, information memorandums, associated documentation and undertaking verification.
- Advising on all aspects of intellectual property law including trade mark registrations, oppositions and licensing, copyright law, technology acquisitions, dispositions and licensing.

Property Law:

- Advising on and documenting acquisition, disposition, leasing and redevelopment of commercial properties including ownership structures, financing, syndicated investments, joint venture and due diligence.
- Advising on and documenting residential subdivisions and developments.

Trust Law:

- Advising on trusts and estate planning, asset protection and formation, administration of trusts (general, charitable, trading or special purpose) and acting as professional trustees.
- Advising on wills, powers of attorney, estate planning and administration.

Tax Law:

- Advising on a broad range of income tax, GST and cross border tax issues.
- Tax effective structuring/restructuring of business entities and investments including companies, joint ventures, general and limited partnerships and trusts.
- Tax effective structuring of transactions including land acquistion and disposition, land development, the acquisition and disposition of assets and inbound and outbound investments or transactions.
- Advising on tax implications of overseas investment in New Zealand.
- Advising on tax residence status including when a person/entity becomes tax resident in New Zealand or looses their New Zealand tax residence status.

Resource Management and Environmental Law:

- Assisting clients with their resource consent applications and making submissions about the development proposals of others.
- Advising on land-use consents, coastal permits, water permits, (use/taking/damming/diverting), and discharge permits for releases to land,  water or air.
- Representation at local authority hearings and at the Environment Court.
- Advising on environmental matters such as contaminated land, waste management, hazardous substances, foresty, climate change and carbon emissions, conservation and wildlife law, and pastoral leases.

<b>Contact the team at MDS Law for a consultation on any of the above</b>

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