Category: Updates
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ConCOVE stakeholder survey results
ConCOVE stakeholder survey results The ConCOVE stakeholder survey (September 2022) provided ConCOVE Tūhura with a baseline engagement score and a set of indicators for future activity for the COVE. While the survey shows some early indicators that ConCOVE’s activities have influenced stakeholders in the construction and infrastructure sector, ConCOVE Tūhura understands that there is a long…
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Supporting Māori businesses in Tauranga and Gisborne
Supporting Māori businesses in Tauranga and Gisborne ConCOVE’s Co-chairs Graham Burke and Phil Hokianga attended the opening of the ICONIQ GROUP Toirakau Paoa Building Facility and visited Te Pae Hākari, a construction company based in Tairāwhiti. “It was a delight to see the joy from all levels of ICONIQ Group and listen to the…
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ConCOVE and Workforce Development Council Wananga
Wānanga hosted by ConCOVE Tūhura and Workforce Development Councils Today ConCOVE Tūhura, together with Hanga-Aro-Rau Workforce Development Council and Waihanga Ara Rau, hosted a wānanga at Manukau Institute of Technology‘s Ngā Kete Wānanga Marae. The aim of the day was to understand the good work already underway in each organization and identify how we can effectively work in unison. We came…
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Construction Sector Accord Budget Announcement
Construction Sector Accord Budget Announcement ConCOVE Tūhura welcome the news of the Construction Sector Accord’s funding to support delivery of the Construction Sector Transformation Plan 2022-2025. The Accord’s TP25 as it is known has a renewed set of transformational goals and will be launched in July 2022. The plan has a greater focus on The…
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Presenting at the Te Aranga Alliance hui
Presenting at the Te Aranga Alliance Hui Last week, our Entry Project Lead, Tony Atina, attended a hui with the Te Aranga Alliance, a Civil and Infrastructure group (Fletcher Infrastructure / Brian Perry Civil / Higgins / Beca / Harrison Grierson) based in Porirua that has a contract with Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities for housing removal, land development and infrastructure. The…
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Executive Director Pōwhiri
Executive Director Pōwhiri On Wednesday 11 May, Board Members and staff from ConCOVE and MIT welcomed Katherine Hall, Executive Director of ConCOVE, with a pōwhiri on Ngā Kete Wānanga Marae at the Manukau Institute of Technology Otara Campus. It was an amazing gathering of the many people connected to, and supportive of, the kaupapa of…
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Delivering a sustainable talent pipeline for our Construction sector
Delivering a sustainable talent pipeline for our Construction sector A new Executive Director of ConCOVE: Tūhura has been appointed at a key time for workforce development. The centre of vocational excellence for construction and infrastructure (ConCOVE) is responsible for using education, research and innovation to help build a more productive, sustainable and resilient national sector…
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Celebrating Teresa’s Success
Celebrating Teresa’s Success! Congratulations to Teresa Poli, Project Lead for ConCOVE’s Sustainability project, who has been selected to be a part of The C40 Women4Climate Mentorship Programme, as a Mentee. Teresa is one of the ten wāhine selected for the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Mentorship programme. The programme matches Mayors, city officials, and committed leaders from the…
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ConCOVE & Waihanga Ara Rau Partnership
Waihanga Ara Rau and ConCOVE Tūhura partnership will support a thriving construction and infrastructure workforce Work to transform vocational education and training for the construction and infrastructure workforce has marked another milestone with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Waihanga Ara Rau Construction & Infrastructure Workforce Development Council and the Construction and…
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Collaboration Between CoVE’s
In late March 2022, the Food and Fibre CoVE and ConCOVE gathered in Hamilton for the first time since the CoVE’s came into existence. It was a great opportunity to share some of the mahi being undertaken by each CoVE and let’s be honest, having a face to face conversation was a welcome change! We’re looking…