About us
We are the Government's independent advisor on infrastructure. We are focused on improving the infrastructure system to help lift the country’s performance and improve the wellbeing of all New Zealanders.
We are the Government's independent advisor on infrastructure. We are focused on improving the infrastructure system to help lift the country’s performance and improve the wellbeing of all New Zealanders.
Our infrastructure is a system
New Zealand’s infrastructure is the roads we use to get to work or move goods to market, the power connections that heat our homes, the schools where our children learn, the hospitals that heal us.
Our infrastructure system supports almost everything we do, and this means the decisions we make about it affect us all. Because of the long life, size and complexity of our infrastructure system, these decisions can also have an impact for decades, even centuries, and involve millions or billions of dollars.
What we do
Te Waihanga has sight across the whole infrastructure system and is uniquely placed to provide advice to government and work with a range of infrastructure organisations to improve infrastructure planning, prioritisation, investment and delivery.
We do this by:
- developing national strategies and plans that set the direction for decades to come
- providing independent advice on infrastructure needs, priorities and issues
- providing independent advice on complex project delivery, with lessons for the wider sector – including helping grow the capability of New Zealand’s infrastructure project leaders
- managing the National Infrastructure Pipeline, which provides a national view of current or planned infrastructure projects.
Other infrastructure agencies
Te Waihanga works alongside the following central agencies and entities involved in driving Government priorities in the infrastructure sector:
- The Treasury – Te Tai Ōhanga
- National Infrastructure Funding and Financing Limited
- Crown Infrastructure Delivery Ltd
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Our team
Our board and leadership team.
Careers
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Corporate documents and official information
Our latest corporate publications, including our Annual reports, titles of advice given to ministers, and our Official Information Act responses.
In te reo Māori Te Waihanga means a cornerstone, or to make, create, develop, build, construct, generate.
How we operate
Te Waihanga, the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, was officially formed by the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission/Te Waihanga Act 2019 on 25 September 2019.
New Zealand Infrastructure Commission/Te Waihanga Act 2019
We are an autonomous Crown entity, listed under the Crown Entities Act 2004, with an independent board.