National Forward Works Viewer – Infrastructure programmes from around Aotearoa – all shared into one simple interactive map

MANY PLANS, ONE VIEWER

Planned infrastructure programmes of Aotearoa New Zealand at your fingertips

Your go-to collaborative tool for planning, viewing and sharing forward works

The National Forward Works Viewer is an interactive map that helps you see when and where different projects are being planned around the country.

This gives people in the infrastructure sector better visibility of what everyone else is doing – lessening risk and leading to some big cost and time savings.

We help hundreds of organisations share their forward work programmes to one common platform so that everyone has the information they need to collaborate and plan ahead.

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Want more visibility of what’s happening in your corridor?

Set up notification alerts for project activity in an area that matters to you. This is perfect for people like:

I can see any projects nearby or clashing

I can see any projects nearby, or clashing with my own

Project Managers

see who’s breaking ground near my assets

I can see who’s breaking ground near my assets

Asset owners

I can coordinate traffic plans with nearby sites

Traffic management

I can avoid roadworks when planning marathons, festivals & concerts

Events managers

I can see activity on my corridor and have some say in sequencing

Corridor managers

I can see planned works and prepare messaging in advance

Comms & community managers

What our users have to say

The NFWV is a fantastic planning tool and has certainly removed the onerous task of maintaining our own GIS database.

The Forward Works Viewer has allowed us to have conversations that wouldn't have happened previously because we wouldn't have known about the asset upgrade renewals the council had planned. Through collaboration like this, it saves ratepayers money and reduces transport impacts, benefiting everyone in the region.

Since its launch in 2013, it has proven to be invaluable – enabling better coordination and planning of work, and helping rebuild agencies avoid costs caused by unforeseen variations and programme delays.

It is useful because we can use it to see what other work is being planned...it helps us determine how to do our traffic management plans and gives us the ability to work in with other contractors working in the same area.

It's still early days, but we're pretty confident that the NFWV will make our lives easier in the long run. As the RCA, I have more confidence that we know what's happening in our road corridor.

Case Studies

Locally grown, internationally acclaimed

60,796

projects currently published

55%

of Aotearoa is covered, with organisations publishing data across 11 council regions

years of being tried and tested!

49,227

project clashes identified in the system

A SNAPSHOT AS AT APRIL 2025

Want to see how it works?

Get in touch and our team will show you what the NFWV can do for your organisation – and the wider infrastructure sector.

What else are we working on?

Underground Asset Register (UAR)

Right now, we’re piloting a platform that captures Wellington’s underground utility data (like water pipes and power cables), in one interactive digital map.

Utility records are often incomplete or inaccurate. The UAR aims to take the guesswork out of excavation projects by allowing users to view, share, and record assets – and report anything that’s not where it should be.

We’re working to build a system that could eventually support the whole of Aotearoa to see the data beneath our feet.

We're built different

The NFWV is set up a little differently. It’s a not-for-profit tool, owned by a purpose-built foundation, whose aim is to make the infrastructure sector better through knowledge-sharing.

We run an ‘anchor subscriber’ model for each region, which means that for most of you, it’s free to use! You can view data, and even onboard your organisations.

Want to know if your region has free FWV access under an anchor subscriber? Get in touch below.