2008 NZEEA

IET New Zealand was a Category Award Sponsor for Information and Communications Technology at the 2008 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Award. The award recognises outstanding achievement in developing new or improved communications, hardware, or software products or services.

The winner of this category went to Kordia, for their digital terrestrial television project. This project provides New Zealand with terrestrial digital broadcasting service. The $30million project used Google Earth terrain mapping software to optimise antenna placement and signal coverage. Working within tight constraints and demanding specification, the Kordia engineering team accomplished a major improvement to national infrastructure, work which will potentially have a positive impact on millions of New Zealand.

Congratulations to Kordia.