Paul McDonald, Consultant

Paul and his associates provide consultant services for Parks, Sport, Recreation and Coastal facilities.

For this year some key topics to work on may be...

Impact Assessments: Assess the impact of policy on the recreation and cultural aspects.
Feasibility Reports: Measure your proposals ability to meet your goals.
Access to public facilities NZS 4121:2001: Ensure your access is actually accessible.
Operational contract performance: Is the contract performance up to standard? Are you measuring the right things?

Community Infrastructure Procurement.

Procurement for community and sport infrastructure is critical to ensuring the objectives of the project are met. Many times another industry approach is layered over these projects and can lead to higher costs, scope creep and unmet expectations. Our expertise and processes for ensuring the scope and expectations are accurate will help guide better project delivery.

Park Maintenance Performance Standards.

Maintenance is a major expense from facility providers. For the most part council contract the maintenance service suppliers for the maintenance of parks and recreation facilities. Performance standards actually differ across NZ, which is a part of the ability afforded local councils to determine the levels of service, the expected performance and the actual performance. I offer a taylor-made auditing service for assessment of the suppliers achievement of the maintenance standard set to them. I am a senior and experienced Green Flag Award Judge and my extensive auditing and quality control experience provide principals with information and audited results about the state of the maintenance contracts.