Huddy, the groundsman at Carisbrook, has been appointed the operations manager at the Forsyth Barr Stadium.
So for the next 12 months he will be working on Carisbrook as the ground prepares for its last rites while also spending plenty of time "down the road", as he terms it, as the new stadium springs to life.
"It will be busy, there is no doubt about that. But there are good people in both organisations and that is a huge help," he said.
"And with the Rugby World Cup coming along it was always going to be busier, but then everything is going to be checked twofold so that makes it easier in some ways."
Huddy said no date had been set for Carisbrook to be vacated, and there were still plans for the city's three allocated World Cup games to be played at the ground. It would also be used as a training venue.
The new stadium was taking shape and he said it would offer a different challenge from Carisbrook.
"The difference is we have total control over the field [at Forsyth Barr Stadium]. By having the roof over the field you are taking the rain out of the equation.
"The thing with Carisbrook is your biggest game of the year, a test match, is usually in June and July, and that is the hardest time of the year to control things. You don't get a lot of drying time, and then if you get that rain it makes for a hard job. And it is cold. The stadium will be warmer."
Huddy had been testing the new grass system under the ethylene tetrafluoroethylene material in test plots in the Carisbrook car park for the past three years. He was happy with the results.
He said that had been a huge advantage for the stadium.
"I don't know anywhere else which has had that length of time to prepare its turf in real life and find out what is best for the ground.
"We've been able to refine and test things. The big thing is you are not growing grass outside."
The ground at Forsyth Barr Stadium was about to be established by contractor Delta, and he was confident it would come up fine.
The All Blacks play Wales tomorrow at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, which has a retractable roof. While it keeps out the rain it has also led to a pitch resembling a cow paddock at times.
But Huddy said no comparisons could be made between the two stadiums.
Huddy, who started at Carisbrook since 2002, said two main advantages for the new stadium were the Desso system which was to be woven into the grass, and the design of the stadium.
"The Desso system gets stitched into the ground next April-May and helps gives a really, really stable surface.
"I went to the United Kingdom and went to Cardiff and though it is an impressive stadium, it is not designed to assist in grass growth.
"Here, the way the roof is designed with the angles the sun can get right on the grass. And it is warmer inside by two to four degrees."
