We are very excited to announce that Andrew.Stewart is a key sponsor of Sustainable 60, a new competition designed to share and reward excellence in sustainable business practice in New Zealand. 

The competition is an initiative by Fairfax Media and PricewaterhouseCoopers, with Andrew.Stewart sponsoring the 'Environment' category to demonstrate leadership and expertise in relation to the pressing issues of sustainability and environmental management.
 
We encourage our clients and friends to participate - find out more at our website

Further to our initial Project Twin Streams article, we are pleased to announce that the Project Twin Streams Cycle Walkway has scooped yet another award. Having already been  judged to be the country's Best Practice Walking Facility at the inaugural Best Practice Walking Awards, it has also recently scooped a Golden Foot Award, signifying excellence and stature as New Zealand's number one walk and cycle way.

To learn more about how our services contributed to the success of this project click here

After assisting 2degrees Mobile with the rollout of over 400 sites for their nationwide network, Andrew Stewart Ltd now proudly have a telecommunications site on their rooftop providing coverage to the Victoria Gully and surrounding areas.

Radiofrequency reports conducted by the National Radiation Laboratory have demonstrated that 2degrees antennas emit less than 1.3% of the national standard for Radiofrequency! (Source: NRL technical report 49/07)

For information on the 2degree rollout, click here

"Boob Camp" is a four week fitness (torture) competition where fifteen teams of eight (including a team of celebrities) strive to win - while raising as much money as possible along the way for research into breast cancer. We thought this was a great cause and that Managing Director Aaron Andrew also needed a tune up, so we sent him off to be part of The Building Intelligence Group, (TBIG) "Hooter Helper" team.

Aaron is totally committed to the 6:25am starts, and following 1 hour of punishing fitness including crawling through mud, press ups, burpies, tiger crawling and all sorts of other unusual military activities. But to succeed, Aaron desperately needs your help to raise as much money as possible by the end of the programme. So support a winning team (check out the online points table), and donate online.

We will also be auctioning on Trade Me a signed orange Hooter Helper T Shirt, actually worn by Aaron in the field of combat...

It will be washed.

The Select Committee have completed their first reading of the "Resource Management (Simplify and Streamline) Amendment Bill" and have reported back to the House with some changes to the Bill. According to Environment Minister Nick Smith, "The bulk of the 167 changes proposed are to proceed but there are some important refinements made in response to public submissions." (Source: beehive.govt.nz)
Click here for a description of the main changes.

From here, the 2nd and 3rd readings of the Bill will be undertaken and provided that no further major changes are made, the "Resource Management (Simplify and Streamline) Amendment Bill" should be enacted by 1st October (according to MFE's RMA INFO Line).  To view the the full Select Committee report, click here.

Andrew.Stewart welcomes Spill Response New Zealand Limited and Les Mills  as new clients this month.

You told us what you needed, and we listened.

CS-VUE is proud to release Software Version 3.0 to  our user community on September 1st!  Users will login to find a  complete re-design of the system, with a fresh new look and feel, an even more intuitive user interface, and  huge improvements in workflow efficiency.  This latest release is also packed with new functionality, including enhanced search capabilities, map referencing, intra consent and project linking, and multiple condition signoffs... the list goes on.

Carbon Group welcomes back Adventure Travel company; Stray. Stray are following up on measuring their first year carbon footprint with us and will now be able to compare their 2007 footprint with their 2008 footprint, allowing them to quantitatively track their progress. For the full story, click here

Thank you for taking the time to read our newsletter, we hope you have found it both interesting and informative.

If you have any suggestions of what you would like to see in future, or if you would like to contribute, please feel free to contact Justin Wannenburg.