The Solution: Optimisation and Strategic Consolidation

Dynamo6 initiated the partnership by conducting a thorough technical audit across Tonkin + Taylor’s five key sites (Tonkin + Taylor NZ, Tonkin + Taylor AU, The MCC, Geotechnics, and Chadwick Geotechnics), leading to remediation and significant performance gains:

• Cloud CI/CD and Enterprise Service Hosting: Established an enterprise-level continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) hosting environment and enterprise service hosting, achieving elite-level DevOps performance as measured by DORA metrics.

• Code Integrity and Security: A comprehensive "digital spring clean" was performed, removing over 40 redundant plugins per site. This action significantly reduced potential security vulnerabilities and overall system load.

• Leaner Architecture: Custom-built code which followed industry-best practices replaced third-party tools, resulting in a more secure and efficient architecture.

• Enhanced Brand Consistency: Media storage was streamlined, and professional, branded URLs were implemented across the web.

• Measurable Performance Boost: These optimisations dramatically improved the user experience, propelling Lighthouse performance scores from the 20s and 30s into the 90s, ensuring the sites perform as reliably as Tonkin + Taylor's engineering solutions.

With the foundation stable, Dynamo6 led a strategic project to unify Tonkin + Taylor’s regional domains under a single global site: tonkintaylor.com.

• Intelligent Geolocation: The New Zealand codebase was utilised as a core framework, integrating geolocation capabilities to automatically serve region-specific content to users based on their location.

• SEO Preservation: Complex redirect mapping was meticulously managed to maintain existing search engine authority throughout the transition.

• Centralised Management: The new structure empowers the Tonkin + Taylor team to manage their entire global presence efficiently from one streamlined system.