We’re proud to partner with EnergyCo to deliver an innovative digital engagement platform for the New England Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) - setting a new benchmark for how complex infrastructure studies are communicated and understood.

As Australia accelerates its clean energy transition, projects like the New England Renewable Energy Zone require more than technical documentation. They demand meaningful, transparent and accessible engagement with local communities. EnergyCo sought a forward-thinking solution to showcase a series of detailed studies exploring how the REZ can balance project impacts with long-term benefits - while actively gathering public feedback to help shape delivery.

Transforming Complex Studies into Interactive Digital Experiences

We designed and developed a dynamic, user-focused interactive portal that brings critical project information to life.

The platform features dedicated sections across key topic areas, including:

● Workforce accommodation

● Training and skills development

● Local supply chain opportunities

● Waste and circular economy

● Water and wastewater security

Rather than just presenting information as static reports, the homepage incorporates a scrollytelling experience that intuitively guides users through each topic area. This narrative-led approach encourages deeper exploration and ensures communities can easily understand how different elements of the project connect.

By combining strategic storytelling with digital design, our team transforms technical studies into clear, engaging and accessible content - a hallmark of our expertise in the digital engagement space.

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Integrated Feedback That Drives Better Project Outcomes

Community engagement is most effective when feedback is structured, measurable and actionable.

The portal includes an integrated multi-step survey designed to uncover local issues, priorities and perspectives across the region. This allows community members to provide meaningful input on the factors that matter most to them. All feedback flows directly into Spatial Media’s SpatialEngage Enterprise platform, enabling streamlined data collation, real-time insights and efficient reporting for the project team. This closed-loop engagement model ensures community voices inform decision-making - not just consultation reporting.

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Setting a New Standard for Renewable Energy Engagement

The New England REZ portal demonstrates how digital engagement can:

● Improve transparency around complex infrastructure studies

● Increase accessibility to technical information

● Encourage informed participation

● Deliver measurable, data-driven community insights

● Support social license through meaningful two-way engagement

As renewable energy projects scale across Australia, digital engagement has a critical role in building understanding and trust. It is a clear goal of ours to work with clients throughout this evolution and design platforms that bridge the gap between technical complexity and community clarity.

Through innovative storytelling, intelligent data capture and enterprise-grade engagement tools, we are helping infrastructure and energy organisations move beyond consultation - toward genuine collaboration. You can find out more about our innovative solutions for energy and renewable projects here.

Get in touch with us to discuss how we can create a custom digital engagement solution for you at contact@spatialmedia.io

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Spatial are my go-to for solutions

Spatial are my go-to for solutions nobody has dreamt up yet! They have an incredible knack for combining tomorrows tech solutions with creativity, intuitive UX and analytics. The results are engaging interfaces that are impactful and ultimately bridge the gap between project and stakeholders.

Kate kernaghan, company director, factotum communications

The final product is polished and professional

KiwRail embarked on developing a virtual training tool to assist with establishing and maintaining route knowledge competency. Spatial Media were engaged for this task. Spatial Media have performed exceptionally well- deadlines set were met, communication between the two businesses was maintained with regular meetings. Urgent requests for information and changes to the work as it progressed were handled without issue and at the same time, expectations regarding the delivery were also met. The final product is polished, professional and feedback from end users has been overwhelmingly positive. KiwiRail are continuing our association with Spatial media as we create virtual training tools to enable the business to manage risk in the rail network.

John Gousmett - Operations Improvement Manager, KiwiRail

Show you mean business when it comes it engagement

Spatial Media are a perfect project partner. Their innovation and quality of their work is exceptional. The digital engagement assets they create are not only visually stunning but also highly effective in communicating our vision to our stakeholders. The attention to detail and dedication to excellence is consistent across every project. Embedding them in our projects has brought numerous benefits and we constantly look at ways we can integrate them and their work across all project teams. Their expertise in creating interactive engagement portals, 3D renders, animations, and modelling has greatly enhanced our ability to engage with our stakeholders. Their innovative approach and tools have added significant value to the engagement offering that John Holland have. Including the Spatial Media team shows you mean business when it comes it engagement. The professionalism and responsiveness are unmatched and the quality of work prove time and time again why they are the best in the business.

Vesna Newman

Spatial bring a collaborative and best practice project approach to design truly user focused digital solutions.

Nation Partners has been working with Spatial Media for years to help projects share information and engage with their stakeholders in exciting and innovative ways. Spatial bring a collaborative and best practice project approach to design truly user focused digital solutions.

Nation Partners, Stakeholder Relations + Communications team

Their responsiveness and flexibility, particularly under tight timelines was very helpful and well received.

Spatial Media delivered visualisation services including 3D animations and photomontage assets that brought the concept design to life. Their work was instrumental in communicating the complex design elements to stakeholders and ultimately the broader community. From the outset, Spatial Media demonstrated a deep understanding of infrastructure visualisation requirements, proactively engaging with our engineers and project managers to refine inputs and ensure accuracy. Their responsiveness and flexibility, particularly under tight timelines was very helpful and well received. The teams ability to incorporate feedback quickly and collaborative approach made the process seamless and efficient.

Ross Hall, Project Manager, Aurecon

They are our go to tech-savvy experts with huge amounts of creative flair!

COVID19 social distancing restrictions made having our large scale community event nearly impossible, so we decided to take our face-to-face event online. Spatial worked really closely with us to develop the concept, design and platform that would host our virtual community event. The Spatial team are exceptionally creative, with a fantastic ability to bring your idea to fruition in a way you never thought possible. They made our pen on paper scribble into something that over 45k stakeholders visited online, more than what we could have reached in person. Thank you

Emily Divitaris, Senior Communications Advisor, WestConnex

From day one, Spatial Media grasped exactly what we needed

From day one, Spatial Media grasped exactly what we needed: a simple, interactive way for our community to stay up to date on local works. Their team was easy to work with, highly responsive, and open to every adjustment we requested. The end result exceeded our expectations.

Chris Ashton, Lismore City Council

Powering Digital Engagement for the New England REZ

Discover how the Spatial Media team partnered with EnergyCo to deliver an interactive digital engagement platform for the New England Renewable Energy Zone.