Facilities & Asset Services
Thinkers, Builders and Sustainers.
We are your one team to build, maintain and operate your buildings and facilities efficiently and sustainably for the benefit of today’s communities and future generations.
Our capable, committed people engage a network of trusted suppliers and like-minded partners, working with clients to deliver a whole-of-life approach.
Joined up thinking – and doing – means we can enhance value at every stage from planning to posterity. Through harnessing advanced technology and sharing knowledge we can generate real cost savings and efficiencies for clients.
By developing our comprehensive Downer Standard policies, procedures and guidelines, we’re proud to have achieved ISO 55001 Asset Management for our maintenance standards.
We are where our customers need us. Since 1870, Downer brands have built, lived and worked in New Zealand communities – and look towards creating a prosperous, equitable and environmentally sustainable future together.
Sustainability at Downer:
Caring for Aotearoa’s People and Places
Partnering with Downer on sustainable initiatives creates real opportunities to affect positive change at scale, while building goodwill for your organisation, ensuring healthier spaces and reducing long-term costs.
We take environmental stewardship seriously. As members of the Climate Leaders Coalition with ambitious decarbonisation targets, we partner with industry and clients to solve pressing issues. This means investing in solutions which generate broader social and environmental benefits, including iwi partnerships that support kaitiakitanga of land and sea, and deliver better outcomes for mana whenua.
Footprint (impacts within our control):
Reducing GHG emissions by 45-50% by 2035 and be net zero by 2050.- Divesting away from high carbon industries,
- Integrating technologies that improve fuel efficiency, transitioning to EV and alternative fuel vehicles
- Carbon emissions reporting from 2023
- Certified Carbon Zero electricity supply
- In partnership drive a circular economy for PPE gear and apparel, road cones, aggregate & concrete products
Handprint (external factors we can influence)
Improving efficiencies for products and materials, moving towards low carbon material and strengthening our customer and supplier agreements.* *These commitments are registered with the Science Based Target initiative.
For more information on Downer New Zealand’s approach to sustainability, click the link below.
https://www.downergroup.co.nz/sustainability
A Whole-Of-Life
Service Offering
Future maintenance and operational needs are considered from the design stage
Sustainability throughout design, construct and operate continuum
A single, streamlined point of service delivery throughout the asset lifecycle
Greater transparency of future maintenance and operational needs
City Rail Link Project
As Aotearoa’s largest single transport infrastructure project, the City Rail Link (CRL) will transform how people move around Tāmaki Makaurau, our biggest city and commerce hub.
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Spotless
With a large national workforce drawn from communities across Aotearoa, we combine local industry knowledge with global best practice, tailoring our services to the specific hygiene, security and waste management needs of the sectors in which our clients operate.
From I-Mop innovative floor care technology to industry leading cleaning and sanitising products, advanced auditing practices and complete 24/7/365 job management – Spotless knows how to keep New Zealand clean.
Epicure
From private school cafeterias to large-scale sports events – our tailored food service solutions employ best practice safety and quality controls for food transport, storage, preparation, service and clean up.
Our in-house dieticians design fresh, healthy menus and wellbeing programmes based on Ministry of Health guidelines for resident dining in healthcare and education and boarding schools. We also cater corporate functions and boardrooms, and run popular hospitality outlets, and retail food and beverage brands – our signature is always delicious food, served with authentic hospitality.
AE Smith
120-years of outstanding service, experience and knowledge have made AE Smith a recognised name for innovative technical, engineering and construction service solutions, for commercial and industrial facilities. We deliver sustainable design solutions to future proof assets, making them last longer through continuous monitoring and smart maintenance plans.
Our approach streamlines operations, reducing risk, energy, and operating costs over the whole asset lifecycle. This comprehensive service model means we can meet each client’s specific needs, across education, healthcare, hospitality, retail, commercial and government sectors.
Downer Facilities and Asset Management
We provide customers with fit-for-purpose facilities management services based on asset management principles, which optimise cost efficiencies, reliability, and whole-of-asset life management outcomes. As a collaborative maintenance partner, we will work closely with our customers to bring their asset management strategies to life.
As experienced Asset Managers with comprehensive knowledge and proven application of ISO 55001 Facilities Management and as FMANZ members, we are committed to being at the forefront of facilities management best practices.
We use the value levers of technology, our geographic spread and best practice asset management principles to streamline and optimise the management of nationwide and diverse property profiles.
The strength of our geographic coverage enables us to deliver national facilities management services efficiently. We have 73 main depots across New Zealand, including remote locations like the Chatham Islands.