Collaboration with Industry Experts
Our Partners
For each project, we assemble tailored consortia of global and local partners—architects, engineers, operators, and capital advisers—ensuring best-in-class capability and execution certainty. This collaborative, capital-efficient approach allows Cenfield to deliver complex regeneration projects that strengthen cities, create lasting community value, and provide investors with resilient long-term income and growth.
key project partners
ASM Global
Stadium Operations
ASM Global is a leading venue-management and live-event company operating globally with more than 350 premier stadiums, arenas, convention centres and theatres across five continents. Born from the merger of AEG Facilities and SMG (and AEG Ogden) in 2019, the company offers full-scale venue operations, event booking and content services and has been the contract operator for iconic venues such as Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. In August 2024, it was acquired by Legends Global, integrating its venue-management expertise into a larger live-entertainment ecosystem.
CSL
Sport Market Research
CSL International is a specialist consulting and market‐research firm focused on sports, entertainment and venue projects, advising teams, venue owners and developers through surveys, focus groups, demand studies and financial modelling. As part of the broader Legends ecosystem, CSL helps stakeholders make data-backed decisions around stadium design, fan experience, seating and amenities—such as when the Kansas City Chiefs engaged CSL for fan-and-stakeholder research when planning their future stadium.
HKS
Stadium and Precinct Masterplan Architects
HKS is a global architecture and design practice established in Dallas, Texas, in 1939. Working across a range of sectors, the HKS Sport and Entertainment Group has been a pioneer in design innovation and the reconfiguration of the stadium and arena experience for over 30
years with an extensive portfolio of completed sports and entertainment venues from around the world.
The practice has designed many of the world’s most recognized and awarded stadiums. Whilst HKS is best known for the Dallas Cowboys AT&T Stadium (70,000 seats) which opened in 2009, more recent projects have included the US Bank Stadium in Minnesota (66,000 seats. 2016),
Optus Stadium (60,000 seats - 2018) in Perth, Australia, the Hokkaido Fighters Ballpark (42,000 seats - 2023) in Sapporo, Japan, and the new SoFI Stadium (70,000 seats – 2022) in Los Angeles, USA.
Buchan
Commercial MXD Architects
At Buchan, we understand people and place. We strive to create destinations that enrich lives and local economies. We design places people are drawn to and feel a rich sense of belonging.
Buchan is an acclaimed global architecture, interior, masterplanning and experiential design studio with distinction in retail, commercial, mixed- use, residential, hotels and hospitality.
We are an agile business drawing on both local knowledge and international experience, with more than 250 staff sharing expertise across our Australian New Zealand studios.
For more than 130 years, Buchan has made a significant contribution to the built environment across the globe, with an extensive portfolio that spans boutique, intimate settings through to large-scale buildings and urbanscapes.
TOA Architects
Cultural Design Integration
TOA Architects is a team of Māori architects who undertake design projects from within a tikanga Māori framework. TOA take an approach ensuring that the project establishes tikanga-a-iwi, mātauranga Māori with innovative designs and ecological based understandings to assist in the safeguarding of iwi cultural values and to enhance the mana, ihi and wehi of the project.
TOA are experienced and accomplished cultural design specialists with
collectively 30+ year’s experience in this space with projects, locally, nationally
and internationally spanning all types of architecture and all scales of projects.
We are Te Aranga design specialists and utilise this guideline in our projects.
TOA has developed a process for the development of Māori design principles
specific to a project and client. Often, tikanga-based kaupapa are directly related to the principles of the client/organisation and/or ancient iwi relationships in the landscape.
Robert Bird Group
Civil and Structure
Robert Bird Group is a global consulting engineering firm with over 700 employees across eleven offices. A member of Surbana Jurong Group, we are committed to delivering each client’s vision through the relentless pursuit of engineering excellence across all projects. We offer services across five disciplines, drawing upon our international expertise.
Our unique design philosophy for sports and entertainment facilities – incorporating the construction sequence and methodology into the permanent works design – resulting in our designs being faster to build, more cost-effective, and lower-risk during construction. Clients and contractors alike appreciate our integrated approach to design and construction, which
benefits all stakeholders.
key project partners
Aurecon
Building Services & Transport
Aurecon is a design, engineering and advisory company. Our purpose is bringing ideas to life, to imagine and cocreate with our clients a better future for people and the planet.
Great cities and towns need great sports and entertainment facilities.
These developments are not just places to host sporting, business, entertainment, and cultural events. They have the power to connect people and communities – both virtually and ‘in real life’ – through memory-making experiences, while driving economic growth through job creation and investment.
Highlight projects include Eden Park Redevelopment, Auckland, Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin, Te Kaha, Christchurch Multipurpose Arena, and Wembley National Stadium, UK.
Turner & Townsend
Project Management
Turner & Townsend have 1,011 people in ANZ, delivering over 11,990 projects in region.
We have been supporting both local and global clients in Australia and New Zealand for over 30 years, specialising in programme, project, cost and commercial management and advisory services across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. We transform performance on the world’s most impactful programs, managing risk while maximising value and performance for clients across the built environment.
We are global leaders in delivering stadiums, host cities and place making programmes such as Wimbledon’s (AELTC) Masterplan, London Olympics 2012, Etihad Stadium & Khalifa
International Stadium to name a few.
Boffa Miskell
Landscape Architecture
Boffa Miskell brings over 50 years of Aotearoa New Zealand experience across a broad range of public realm, infrastructure and recreational precinct projects that will feed into the success of this venture. You are looking for a qualified and experienced Consultant to provide Landscape Architecture Design Services and Engagement Services particularly cultural engagement.
Barker & Associates
Planning Consultants
Barker & Associates are one of New Zealand’s largest sole planning and urban design-based companies. We have extensive experience in Tāmaki Makaurau, having been involved in most of Auckland CBD’s key strategic projects over the last 15 years. These include projects such as the preparation of the Unitary Plan zoning provisions for the City Centre, Wynyard Quarter and waterfront precincts on behalf of Auckland Council, consenting all major buildings within Wynyard Quarter and securing consents for Commercial Bay and the Sky City Convention Centre. B&A also provides advice and has secured consent for Auckland Stadiums since 2016.
Simpson Grierson
Legal & Compliance
Simpson Grierson is one of New Zealand’s leading commercial law firms, founded in 1887 and recognised as the country’s largest by headcount. With offices in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch, the firm’s 45 partners and 175 lawyers advise across all major areas of commercial law, including banking and finance, corporate and mergers & acquisitions, construction, employment, property, litigation, and resource management. Simpson Grierson is especially regarded for its expertise in public and local government law—advising around two-thirds of New Zealand’s local authorities—and for its strong record in dispute resolution and interpretation of the Resource Management Act 1991.
Cuesko
Cost Management
Cuesko was formed in 2013 by three former senior executives of an international quantity surveying consultancy, operating nationally throughout New Zealand. The directors and senior management have a diverse range of experience in the construction industry, both in the commercial and civil sectors. This is reinforced with international knowledge gained working for first-tier contractor organisations and major professional consultancy firms throughout the world. Today Cuesko (pronounced ‘Q-S-Co’) has 25 employees located in Auckland, Northland and Tauranga. Cuesko has the quantity surveying and construction cost expertise to drive informed decisions on any project.