Creating modern built environments that are safe, comfortable, and practical.
We know the importance of living, working, and learning in safe and comfortable environments, enabling people to deliver the best of what they have to offer on a daily basis. AE Smith will work with you to design and provide the best solution for your built environment.
We have been serving customers across Aotearoa and Australia for 120 years. Over this time, we have continued to evolve our service delivery to better serve our customers’ changing needs and requirements. We are where our customers’ needs us the most and now have locations in Auckland, Wellington, Hastings, and the Waikato.
In 2015 we joined forces with Spotless and became part of Downer New Zealand. We are driven by better solutions, ideas and opportunities to improve, and as part of Downer we have strengthened our range of integrated customer solutions.
Our team are passionate about their work and include over 130 specialist engineers, technicians, and experienced project managers, estimators, drafts people, site personnel and service specialists. We draw on our talented, experienced people and our wealth of industry knowledge to recommend, co-design and deliver customised solutions that best suit your specific needs and support your successful business outcomes.
Broad customer base
We deliver comprehensive end-to-end solutions across Aotearoa to a diverse range of clients, including educational institutions, hospitals, hotels, government offices, commercial office buildings, stadia, shopping centres, entertainment venues, and seniors living facilities and more. This diverse service delivery means that we work closely with you to understand and meet your specific needs.
Becoming part of Downer New Zealand reinforces AE Smith’s ability to deliver solutions that unlocks value at each of the design, build, maintain and operate stages.
We invest in being a partner for our customers that drive the best outcome by recommending trusted suppliers with sound experience and expertise. We consider ourselves privileged to work with other NZ businesses as stewards of the future health of our economy.
Service delivery
We place our customers’ needs at the centre of our end-to-end service management and delivery - from design and build through to maintenance. Our solutions include sustainable design solutions that are future proofed. We combine our multiple service capabilities to look after each lifecycle stage of our customer’s building assets (from design to maintenance). In doing so, we foster longevity of the assets through continuous and consistent monitoring, and reduce the total cost of capital investment. This approach also enables streamlined operations, reduced risk, and the application of sustainable energy-efficient, and cost saving solutions. In short, we will supply, install, support, and upgrade your facility’s asset needs.
Our services include:
- Engineering design
- Energy opportunities studies
- Energy retrofits
- Predictive energy optimisation (building)
- BIM (Building Information Modelling), drafting, and CAD modelling
- HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning)
- Building Management System (BMS)
- Fire / smoke control
- Prefabrication / modularisation
- Refrigeration
- Electrical
- Medical gas
- Commissioning (NEBB certified)
- Fine tuning
- Service & maintenance building WOF (IQP certified)
Engineering
We maintain a comprehensive in-house design capability with our dedicated electrical and mechanical engineers who support the design and documentation of projects.
Designs can include complete sets of drawings with full technical specifications using the latest CAD technology or, alternatively, augmenting and providing value engineering to our clients’ own designers. Our capability includes the full spectrum of electrical and mechanical design including:
- power reticulation
- refrigeration
- heating and ventilation
- air conditioning
- communications
- chilled water systems
- condensed water systems
- heating hot water systems
- audio visual
- lighting design
- lighting control
- security
- nurse call
- disability access
- maximum demand calculations
- Building Information Management (BIM)
Our single, integrated engineering capability adds considerable value for our clients by avoiding the complications of multiple parties and touch points. A full project team working directly with clients is the shortest route to a more effective outcome. Along the construct, commission and operate paths of project delivery, our design engineers drive development of robust, practical and safer designs.
Project management
Our team of technical advisors and technicians will work closely with you to design, construct and manage all elements of project development and implementation. They will use in-house design modelling to explore the best options and solutions available to meet your requirements. Our highly experienced and dedicated team bring together one of the most professionally integrated technical trade services in Aotearoa. By using leading technology products and solutions from around the world we deliver fit for purpose customer-centric solutions.
