Publik is the award-winning communications partner in project teams working on bridges, roads, dams and public buildings.

If you need support for your project, please get in touch.

Significant infrastructure projects across Te Tauihu are important for regional resilience, economic productivity, population growth, environmental management, and intergenerational wellbeing.

We have provided communications, marketing and design support for a number of significant infrastructure projects across Te Tauihu – bridges, roads, dams and buildings - working as part of project teams with engineering consultancies, NZTA, Councils or Council-controlled organisations.

Purposeful and timely community and stakeholder engagement is a vital part of a successful infrastructure project, as is using plain English in communications.

We have worked on the communications for projects at the feasibility and business case stages, during construction, and post-construction. Our work covers website builds, public updates through social media, newsletters and community presentations.

The mainstream media are key to helping the public understand their significant infrastructure. We have facilitated regular media tours to sites for project updates and to VIP site visits as appropriate. When sites are difficult to access, we manage the creation of photo and video assets for publication.

Publik highlights have been the dawn opening of the Opaua Bridge, the two day opening events of the stunning Nelson Airport, the successful completion of the award-winning Waimea Community Dam.

The communications and engagement work on the Marlborough Sounds Future Access Study won a number of national and international awards, for which Publik is very proud.

Winner of Excellence in Project Innovation award, IPWEA NZ Excellence Awards 2025
IAP2 Australasia Project of the Year 2024
IAP2 Australasia Winner of Disaster and Emergency Services category 2024
Highly Commended award for Community Engagement in the Taituara Excellence Awards 2024
Finalist in the SuperEngaged category for Local Government New Zealand SuperLocal awards 2024
Winner of Community Engagement category award, Emergency Media and Public Affairs (EMPA) 2023

SECTOR SERVICES

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STRATEGIC PLANNING

Engagement and communications strategies focused on successful outcomes.

Engagement, communications and PR strategies for achieving infrastructure budget bids, to support business cases, and during construction.
Event planning and implementation for milestone events.

WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT

New builds and existing website management.

We built new websites for the Waimea Community Dam, Waimea Irrigators and Tukituki Water Security, to improve overall user experiences (internal and website visitors), membership sign up functionality, and searchability by AI search tools.
We also assist clients on their website updates, as required.

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT

Proactive and reactive social media management.

Publik develops proactive forward planning social media content as required to support a campaign.
Our team monitors client Meta accounts, assisting with responses to public comments on posts, ensuring the client tone is maintained.

MEDIA RELATIONS

Achieving positive and balanced media coverage.

We have provided media relations support to schools as part of multi-layered PR campaigns, achieving positive media stories and opinion pieces in long-form magazines, newspapers, TV and radio.
Reactive responses to media on issues as they arise, in a fast turnaround media environment.
Media training for all spokespeople, to ensure they are ready to answer the tricky questions before a media interview.

DOCUMENT PRODUCTION

Production of engagement documents and company reports

Wrote and produced the quarterly, half year and annual reports for Waimea Water Ltd for seven years.
Wrote and designed a book to record the history and construction of the Waimea Community Dam.
Co-wrote the engagement materials for two phases of community engagement of the Marlborough Future Access Study.

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