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Postnominal abbreviations are a major
credential used by the engineering
profession they indicate our current
competence and professional standing.
IPENZ promotes the consistent use of several
types of postnominal:
currentcompetenceregistrationthe
quality mark for being on a register
that requires regular demonstration
of current competence (for example
CPEng) professionalstandingthequality
mark of acceptance of being in good
professional standing by ones peers
(for example MIPENZ)
qualicationssettingoutonesformal
education (for example BE).
There are also overseas quality marks, for
example CEng from the United Kingdom and
the old Registered Engineering Associate
quality mark (REA), which allow unconditional
continuing registration and are not based
on current competence. Therefore they are
not consistent with the three types IPENZ
promotes.
Across professions in New Zealand, there has
been a consistent protocol that registration
quality marks should not have a prescribed
eldorscopeofworkappliedtothema
person is a registered architect, or chartered
accountant, or chartered professional
engineer. IPENZ has continued to support
this approach for two reasons engineering
issomultidisciplinarythatuniqueelds
cannotbedened,andsecondly,professions
have demonstrated that they can reliably
self-certify their competence to do work.
Thus, in the IPENZ competence assessmentprocess:
assessment is carried out in the
self-declared practice area of each
applicant(eachapplicantspecically
states the engineering activities that he
or she considers the basis of his or her
competence)
candidates are asked to map their
practice area as closely as possible
tooneormoreeldsofengineering
but solely to assist in identifying
suitable assessors and to allow
generation of statistical data about
the spread of registrants betweendisciplines
all currently competent Members of
IPENZ are automatically placed in
the single IPENZ Practice College a
construct to identify those amongst
the Membership who are currently
competent, in case there is any
activity or consultation that should be
restricted to that group of Members.
In 2002, when the CPEng Act commenced,
it was recognised that the creation of the
Practice College also provided an opportunity
to standardise the guidance information
about an engineer. Previously this had
been left to the individual, and a variety
of practices had existed. The extendedpostnominal was introduced from 1 January
2003 as a voluntary, but standardised
way to provide loose guidance towards the
practice area. Those IPENZ Members who
are currently competent were allowed to
use an extended postnominal of the form
MIPENZ(X,Y), TIPENZ(A,B), AIPENZ(C,D),
whereX,Y,A,B,CandDweretheelds
of engineering to which the engineers
practice area aligned (as established in
the competence assessment process),
chosen from: civil, structural, geotechnical,
environmental, mechanical, electrical,
industrial, mining, chemical, bio, information,management,re,buildingservices,
aeronautical, petroleum, and transportation.
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Changes to IPENZ Postnominals
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Bounding Our Ethical
ResponsibilitiesOver the last year or so, both through this publication and in the general
media, Members will have read about challenges to self-regulation.Someoccupationshavegotitwrong(suchasnancialplannersand
real estate salespeople) with dire consequences. We have consistently
emphasised the importance of not letting engineering fall into similar
disrepute. As my predecessor said on several occasions, we rely on
Members to be the frontline, and take on the ethical responsibility to
report poor behaviour, even if it is not comfortable to do so.
Inthisissueyouwillndreportsontwocasestudiesonecasedealt
with under the CPEng regime, and the other dealt with under the
Registered Architects Act. Each involved commercial issues in dispute.
In the engineering case, the matter was over fees and ruled to be
outside the code of ethics (as the contracting body for the fees was
not a natural person, as is a CPEng), but in the architectural case the
matter was over poor estimating of project price, and the individual
registrant was judged to have obligations to estimate the price carefullyand competently.
This illustrates a more general matter on which Members need to
be clear we restrict application of our ethical code to engineers
carrying out engineering activities. What is perhaps not so clear is
that there does not need to be a fee for service (or payment under an
employment agreement) for engineering activities to occur. Whenever
the engineering mindset is engaged the obligations apply. A few years
ago we had an unfortunate case of a Member commenting over his
fence to a neighbour about the stability of a retaining wall asked by
the neighbour if it looked okay he said yes. The wall subsequently failed
and you can guess what happened next.
A recurring theme we face is that engineers often get into trouble by
trying to be too helpful, inadvertently placing an ethical obligationon themselves (and sometimes a commercial liability through tort).
Your friend who is a doctor will not give you medical advice in casual
conversation, but engineers too often step in.
I bring this issue to your attention in my column this month to highlight
the governing Boards ongoing commitment to keeping our house
in order in matters of self-regulation, ethical responsibility, and the
obligation to be competent and careful in all our engineering activities.
The best way to deal with complaints is to stop them from happening
by good behaviour. Failing to bound ones advice is a problem we need
toaddress,butsadlyitdoesmeanturningoffourtrytohelpgeneat
times. The lesson is that if we do not do so, many of us will get trouble
we do not think we deserve.
Bas Walker
IPENZ President
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The problems
Five years on, the general consensus is that
the extended postnominal has not worked
particularly well despite our best efforts to
provide clear information. In that time we
have published and distributed three editions
ofengineering edge (the reference guide
to quality marks) to Members, registrants
and regulators, and published a number
of articles, but confusion continues. Some
examples follow.
Members consider that they have
provedtheircompetenceinaeldand
not in their practice area they use
incorrect expressions such as: I got my
CPEng in the civil and environmental
practicecolleges,wheninfactthey
areaCPEngwhoself-certiestheyare
competent to do particular tasks, but
was assessed in a practice area that
the assessors thought aligned with the
civilandenvironmentalelds.
Membersconfusepracticeeldswithpractice area and then confuse other
people.
Many Members think there are 17
Practice Colleges.
Regulatorsareconfusedbyeldsand
practice areas and do not realise that
aeldgivesnoassurancewhatsoever
it is only a means of providing loose
guidance. Nevertheless some are trying
to use it inappropriately.
To overcome these issues would require a
substantial amount of effort, and the only
benetwouldbeavoluntary,butrelatively
standardised, means of providing quite loose
information to guide users of engineering
services.
Board actions and Special General Meeting
outcomes
The governing Board consulted the
Membership through the 2008 Branch and
Technical Group Forum, and was advised bythe representatives present that it was best
to discontinue the extended postnominal.
Accordingly the Board has amended the
Practice College regulations, and this article
serves as the notice of the following changes.
Memberswhoareeligiblemaycontinue
to use the extended postnominal until
31 December 2008, but are advised
to abandon it as soon as possible (for
example when printing new business
cards).
From1January2009Membersmust
completely stop using the extended
postnominal.
In addition, a Special General Meeting of the
Institutionheldon14March2008modied
Rule 27 to change the way Membership
of a Technical Interest Group (TIG) may be
represented. This change is already in place
but has not yet been advertised.
Rule 27 allows that within each TIG all
those who pay the relevant subscription
areMemberswithequalrightswhoshare
collegial interchange that continues
unaltered. The change relates to the ways
a person may represent himself or herself
outside the activities of the group.
WheretheMemberoftheTIGisalso
a Member of the parent body (IPENZ)
and the TIG relates to their practice
area, they are entitled to use their
Membership class in representing their
Membership of the TIG (changed). WheretheMemberoftheTIGisalso
a Member of the parent body but in a
differenteldofpracticetheymayonly
represent themselves as an (ungraded)
Member of the TIG (unchanged).
AllotherMembersoftheTIG,whether
an engineer or not, may only represent
themselvesasafliateMembersofthe
TIG (changed).
WhereTIGsarejointwithotherbodies
that have equivalent competence-
graded membership to IPENZ then the
membership class from the other body
may be used (changed).
More information
The fourth edition ofengineering edge will be
distributed to Members in December 2008
and will provide full guidance. It will also
be available for download from the IPENZ
website.
Good and bad practice in postnominal use
The table below shows a number of examples
of good and bad practice.
Description Previous good practice Previous bad practice Current bad practice Current good practice
(from 1 January 2009)
Chartered Professional
Engineer, Professional
Member,practiceeldcivil,
registered on the International
Professional Engineers register
CPEng, MIPENZ(civil), IntPE(NZ) CPEng(civil),MIPENZ(elds
are not shown with CPEng)
Claiming to be a member of
the civil Practice College (civil
Practice College does not
exist)
CPEng, MIPENZ, IntPE(NZ)
CertiedEngineering
Technician, Associate Member,
practiceeldselectricaland
information
CertETn, AIPENZ(elect, inform.) Claiming to be proven
competent across the two
practiceeldsratherthanjust
in his or her own practice area
Claiming to be other than
an Associate Member of the
IPENZ Practice College
CertETn, AIPENZ
Chartered Professional
Engineer, Fellow, practice
eldtransportation,Memberof the IPENZ Transportation
Group
CPEng, FIPENZ(transport)
Member of the IPENZ
Transportation Group (no
postnominal)
CPEng, FIPENZ
Fellow of the IPENZ
Transportation Group (no
postnominal)
Chartered Professional
Engineer,practiceeld
transportation, Member of the
IPENZ Transportation Group
but not a Member of IPENZ
itself
CPEng
Member of the IPENZ
Transportation Group (no
postnominal)
Using MTG as a postnominal
(no postnominal is allowed for
any TIG Membership)
Member of the IPENZ
Transportation Group
(infringes Rule 27)
CPEng
AfliateMemberoftheIPENZ
Transportation Group (no
postnominal)
Planner, Member of the IPENZ
Transportation group but not a
Member of IPENZ itself
Member of the IPENZ
Transportation Group (no
postnominal)
Claiming that Membership of
the Transportation Group was
actually Membership of IPENZ
Member of the IPENZ
Transportation Group
(infringes Rule 27)
AfliateMemberoftheIPENZ
Transportation Group
(no postnominal)
Member of IMechE(UK), and
as a result is a Member of
the Mechanical Engineering
Group, but not a Member of
IPENZ
ImechE
Member of the Mechanical
Engineering Group (no
postnominal)
IMechE
Member of the Mechanical
Engineering Group (no
postnominal)
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The most common regulatory compliance
complaint we receive from Members
relates to submitting producer statements
for professional engineering work under
the Building Act. Members comment
that Building Consent Authorities (BCAs)
inconsistently accept such statements.
ManyacceptCPEngandaself-
declaration of competence to do the
work.
SomeinsistonCPEngbutwant
further evidence that the engineer
iscompetentinthespeciceldof
engineering to which the work relates.
Othersrequireregistrationonlocal
Council lists, which requires the
engineer to pay a fee and provide
evidence and referees.
The IPENZ and ACENZ position on authoring
producer statements has always been
cleartherstoftheseapproaches
should be applied consistently and
nationally. Inconsistent advice from the
central regulator, lack of clarity over what
is acceptable for BCA accreditation, and
sometimes a BCA claiming it wants to move
to our recommended approach but has not
yet had time to make the changes have all
contributed to this misunderstanding.
Recently, the Department of Building and
Housing decided that leadership to resolve
the status of producer statements was
required. An expert working group including
BCAs and representatives from ACENZ and
IPENZ was brought together in late May
2008. The group agreed that a nationally
consistent approach was required, which will:
establishanationalbest-practiceguide
to which all parties ascribe (a goodstarting point is a draft prepared by
ADAM THORNTON FIPENZ)
clarifythedifferencesbetweena
producer statement from a design
professional, and the workmanship and
productcerticatespresentedbyother
occupational groups
ensureBCAstreatproducerstatements
and engineers and architects expert
technical opinion as evidence towards
establishing design code compliance or
compliance of construction work
ensureproducerstatementsarenota
means to address the distribution ofliability the author and receiver of
such statements each have liabilities
under tort (and may have liabilities
under contract to other parties such as
the building owner) and the statement
does not change these
restrictauthorshiptothosecurrently
on national and preferably statutory-
backed competence registers, but
for work where no suitable register
exists, other national registers without
statutory backing should be developed
and maximally used (this implies
the potential use of registers such
as IPENZs ETPract and CertETn in
appropriate circumstances)
maintaintheintegrityand
trustworthiness of the national
registers, by encouraging all involved to
use the complaints process or report
sub-standard work to the relevant
registration authority.
These outcomes align with IPENZs
longstanding position, so it is very good
news in the long-term. It also vindicates
our decision to take a leadership position
in developing ETPract and CertETn without
statutory backing. However change will
take time and there are likely to be some
continuing frustrations before we can expect
to see consistent behaviours starting
to emerge.
In the meantime, we ask that Members whoexperiencedifcultyinbeingabletopresent
a producer statement to contact the IPENZ
Registrar at [email protected]
We also remind Members that although a
producer statement is useful evidence, under
theBuildingAct2004italoneisinsufcient
evidence for a BCA to discharge its
responsibilities. In addition, IPENZ Members
should use the NZIA/ACENZ/IPENZ producer
statements and not modify them for their
own purposes.
Towards No-hassle Producer Statements
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Making sense of the Building Act 2004?
IPENZ Building Act workshops
September: Wellington Christchurch Auckland Taupo
Register today at www.ipenz.org.nz key word: engineering calendar
New Tools Help Prepare for Competence Assessment
Keeping a simple, progressive record of
key projects, activities and continuing
professional development (CPD) can greatly
simplify the process when the time comes
to prepare a submission. This applies to
both Graduate Members preparing for their
rstassessmentandthoseonacurrent
competence register (for example CPEng,
ETPract and CertETn) who are subject
to ongoing assessments for continued
registration.
For some time, IPENZ has provided an online
work-history recording tool that Graduate
Members can use to record their work history
and track their competence development. A
similar tool is now available for experienced
Members to maintain records for continued
registration, particularly current competence-
based registers. This online work history and
competence recording tool complements
the CPD recording log that is already popular
with Members.
The two tools enable Members to record
onave-yearrollingbasiskeyprojects
or activities, particularly good examples of
competence against particular elements
of the competence standard, and CPD
activities. When the time comes to submit
for a continued registration assessment,
these records can be readily edited to
form the basis of a submission the only
other documents needed are a completed
application form (CA02) and referee
declarations. Members can access both
recording tools via the Career Management
section in the Members Area of the IPENZ
website.
In addition, an application preparation
tutorial has been developed to step Members
through the application preparation process.
While the primary audience for the tutorial
is Graduate Members working towards their
initial competence assessment, registrants
needing to prepare a submission for
continuedregistrationmayalsondthe
tutorial useful. It provides help and guidance
on how to complete each of the template
forms and advises on alternative formats
that can be used. Once again, the tutorialcan be accessed via the Career Management
section in the Members Area of the IPENZ
website.
We encourage Members to review the tutorial
and use the progressive recording tools
that are now available. Members feedback
on each will also be welcome send your
feedback to [email protected]
Charles was also involved in judging the award category that honours innovative solutions for the environment. In
making his choice, Charles considered that the two most worthy nominations were Resene Paintwise, due to its
takebackschemefortheirpaintproducts,andGretchenRobertsonandMonicaPetersfortheirveryreadable
and beautifully illustrated toolkit to enable schools and community groups to study local coastal areas.
While Resene Paintwise won the category award, Gretchen and Monica were highly commended for their toolkit,
which took them six years to develop.
Another winner was current William Pickering medal holder, LAURENCE ZWIMPFER FIPENZ, who received the
GreenRibbonAwardinthevolunteersandnotforprotorganisationscategoryforhissuccessfulnationwidelaunch of eDay, a take back scheme for computers and other e-waste. Led by the computer Access New Zealand
Trust and the 2020 Communications Trust, eDay is a community initiative designed to raise public awareness of
the hazardous nature of e-waste.
Our congratulations go to all Green Ribbon Award winners and especially to the Ministry for the Environment,
which has run these awards for the last 18 years, for raising our awareness of environmental issues throughout
the country.
IPENZ has recently added two enhancements to its online services for Members to provide support while
preparing application documents for competence assessment.
The Ministry for the Environment held its annual Green Ribbon Awards on 5 June this year. IPENZ was well
represented on the night, with Chief Executive ANDREW CLELAND and Director EngineeringCHARLES
WILLMOT both attending the presentation event.
Green Ribbon Awards 2008
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ETHICS
As with other projects he had been involved with, the client was under
theimpressionthathewouldbechargedaxedfeefortheentireproject.
When the client began to receive invoices for the work, he sought a
second quote for the project from an independent engineer. The client
thenreturnedtotherstengineerandusedthequotetoshowthathe
had been overcharged.
Therstengineerdeterminedwhothesecondengineerwasandinformed
him of the dispute, and that he had not been paid for his services. The
second engineer subsequently declined to work for the client.
Frustrated, the client made a complaint to the Registration Authority
(IPENZ). His complaint alleged that he had been overcharged, that he was
never informed that he would be charged on an hourly basis, and that the
two engineers had colluded on a commercial matter.
The Registration Authority dismissed the complaint, but the client lodged
an appeal with the Chartered Professional Engineers Council. The Council
considered the matter but upheld the original decision to dismiss the
complaint. It determined that commercial disputes cannot be broughtagainst a CPEng as the fee charged is a commercial consideration made
by the company and not an engineering activity performed by the engineer.
Status as a Chartered Professional Engineer is only available to individuals
and cannot apply to a consultancy or any other organisation.
the client complained
he had been overcharged
and engineers had
colluded on a
commercial matter
From the IPENZ Code of Ethics
Professionalism, Integrity and Competence: Members shall undertake their engineering activities with professionalism and integrity and shall work
within their levels of competence.
2.11 Follow a recognised professional practice (model conditions of engagement are available) in communicating with your client on
commercial matters.
Inthisrstcase,aCPEngregisteredengineerwasengagedbyaclienttoprovideengineeringservicesforaproject.
After work began an agreement for engagement was signed. Although the project was off to a good start, the clients
satisfaction would not last long.
CASE
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This month, ANDREW CLARK, IPENZs Manager Ethics and Discipline looks at twocommercial disputes with similar beginnings but quite different rulings.
The architect ignored those instructions however, and obtained a single
estimate from a builder for $456,800. Although this was in excess of
his initial budget the client agreed to proceed on the basis of the quote.
He signed an Agreement for Architect Swervices with an assessed valueof work of $450,000. But before construction could begin, the builder
announced his retirement and withdrew his services. The architect sought
an alternative quote from another builder, which came to a colossal
$937,600. The client independently sought a third quote, which came
back at $875,000. Obviously, both new quotes were well in excess of the
original $400,000 budget and $456,800 estimate.
The client laid a complaint with the New Zealand Registered Architects
Board on the basis that he had relied upon the architects professional
advice and that the architect should have been able to design a house
within the budget. Shortly before the complaint was to appear before a
disciplinary committee hearing, both parties advised the Board that a
satisfactory monetary settlement had been made. The Board determined
that there was no reason to proceed with the case.
However, this case raises serious ethical concerns. The architect failed
to communicate effectively and because of his conduct he lost control of
theproject.Therewasasignicantissuewiththeinformalityofhisofce
practices,andtherewasinsufcientrecordingofcriticalstagesofthe
process or whether important steps were carried out in a documented way.
The estimated construction cost was well in excess of the complainants
stated budget and the architect failed to obtain more than one estimate
for the cost of construction, as was requested. As such the architect
failed to recognise the clients financial limitations and design an
affordable house.
Bothcomplaintsdealwithcostsbeingpaidbytheclient,buttheoutcomesarecompletelydifferent.Intherstcase,theengineerscostofservices was ruled to be a commercial consideration and not an engineering activity, so there was no breach of the code of ethical conduct. In the
second case however, although the case never reached a disciplinary hearing, the architect failed to maintain control the project and its costs, and
thereby failed in his ethical obligation to his client.
As engineers we must make sure our clients clearly understand the scope of their project, and make sure they are aware of all the fees their
project will incur. If changes occur, as is often the case, then these must be mutually agreed and attached to the original signed agreement of
engagement. Otherwise, a protracted dispute will be measured in your time, money and reputation.
there seemed to belittle record of criticalstages or whether
important steps werecarried out at all
LESSONS LEARNED?
An architect was commissioned by a client to design a residential home. The client made it clear that his budget was
$400,000 and instructed the architect to obtain three building estimates.
CASE
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New Staff
This month the Schools Team welcomes Fay
Duncan as our new Careers and Heritage
Administrator. Fay will support our careers
promotion activities, provide administrativeassistance to the IPENZ Heritage
Programme, and implement the Transpower
Neighbourhood Engineers Awards.
Fay spent the last 35 years as a teacher,
mainly in primary schools. She spent
about twenty of those years designing and
matching programmes for gifted children.
She also worked with the Royal Society of
New Zealand to develop science programmes
that would spark students imaginations.
Ive always found that gifted kids are
incredibly different in their approach to
things. When they learn, they dont go
methodicallyfromstarttonish;theypick
and choose the things that really work forthem. I always made sure to include different
kinds of thinking in my programmes the
academic side, the hands-on approach, word
games and puzzles.
My new role is much the same thing. Its
supporting childrens education, this time
from a backseat, administrative position.
I see the Schools Team as being part of a
biggermachinetohelpmakelearningfun.
Get Alongside a Careers Advisor
IPENZ Members have the opportunity to
promote their professions to students with
the Get Alongside campaign. Launched in
2007, Get Alongside teams local engineers
with school careers advisors. The campaign
aims to provide students with the information
they need to make informed career
decisions.
Almost 70 IPENZ Members already take part
in Get Alongside and are working in schools
around the country. They act as a source
of information for the school and answer
questions about the industry. With their help,
students can see the possibilities of a career
in engineering.
Tondoutmore,contactFayat
Publications
Futureintech has launched two new
publications for the upcoming careers
season.
Students will be able to match their favourite
subjects to potential career paths with our
careers poster. The poster lists a range
of exciting jobs with their relevance to
technology, maths, and science, helping
students see the possibilities of the subjects
they study.
A brochure on biotechnology is also in theworks for July. Students can learn more
aboutthiscutting-edgeeld,withcareer
prospects in environmentalism, medical
research, agriculture, and food science.
For more information on these publications,
contact Chris at writer-researcher@
futureintech.org.nz
There is an interesting pattern evolving in the applications from school-
leavers for the IPENZ Foundation Scholarships. This scheme, with the
helpofIPENZBranchesisnowofferingaroundfourorveawards
worth $5000 per annum and is entering its sixth year of operation.
Intherstcoupleofyearstherewereonlyfteentotwentyscholarship
applicants per year, mainly boys, and mainly from the North Island.
Selecting the two or three winners was a relatively simple task.
Over the last couple of years the number of applicants has risen
dramatically to almost 100 per year and aspiring candidates now come
from all over the country. The proportion of female candidates has also
risen to approximately one third of applicants.
As the quantity of scholarship candidates increased, the quality of
applicants improved as well. The academic records of most of these
youngsters are absolutely brilliant. In 2007 there were 19 dux or
proxime accessit applicants. Many others had maths, physics and
science marks in international exams in the mid-90s. Many were
involved in sports, arts, community work and relevant holiday jobs.
Selecting winners from such a bright and focussed bunch has become
averydifcult,timeconsumingandrewardingtask.
All IPENZ Foundation Scholarship seekers submit an essay on the
topicWhyIwanttobeanengineer.Quiteasurprisingproportionofthese young folk openly admit to not having known what they wanted
todowiththeirlivesuntiltheymetarealengineer.Manyyoungsters
among last years applicants suggested that it was a visit to an open
day at a university, or an engineering company, that really helped them
decide what career path to take. If they do not have a professional
engineer in the family, they have had no engineering role models and
no way to judge the profession prior to these visits.
The largest impact on their decision-making process seems to come
from meeting and hearing young professional engineers who visit
their schools to talk about the working life of a real engineer the
challenges and the rewards. These Ambassadors who are part of a
Futureintech scheme are beginning to make a big difference to thenumber of young people interested in engineering. Rising enrolments
in the engineering departments of many New Zealand universities
bear this out. The impact of these ambassadorial visits to schools
is obviously much wider than just those who end up applying for an
IPENZ Foundation Scholarship.
There is really no doubt that many of New Zealands brightest young
minds are being attracted to professional engineering as a career. They
see it as offering many rewarding ways to help their fellow citizens, to
clean up the environment and to improve other peoples health and
wealth. They also know it is a well-paid career, offering worldwide job
opportunities.
Interestingly, these youngsters often admit they also considered
medicine, accounting or law but ruled them out once they realised
what engineering offers and they compare the lifestyle and the
opportunities. That is a big shift in school-leaver thinking in just
a few years.
Schools Update
WhyIWantToBeanEngineer(andnotaDoctor,ora
Lawyer, or an Accountant)WARWICK BISHOP FIPENZ, Trustee of the IPENZ Foundation and Foundation Scholarship judge notes how the
scholarships, and school-leavers attitudes toward engineering, have changed.
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Recognising the important role engineersplay in these and other transport issues,
IPENZ, in association with the Transportation
Group, has released a policy report
that outlines the Institutions views and
recommendations on transport.
The document, entitled Transport
Engineering the Way Forward, has received
widespread television and radio coverage for
the forward-thinking policies and strategies it
promotes.
What are the issues?
New Zealand faces a number of major
transport challenges. Oursocietyremainsreliantoncarsand
imported fossil fuels.
Risingfuelcostsaresignicantly
increasing household expenditure and
freight costs.
Congestioninourmajorcitiesis
affecting the economy, and is forecast
to rise further as economic activity
increases.
Transport-relatedgreenhousegas
emissions account for 18 per cent
of New Zealands emissions and are
forecast to increase by a further 40 per
cent by 2040. Transportcomprised44percentof
total consumer energy use in 2006.
Until2005,signicantachievements
were made in road safety but progress
has since plateaued.
Theseissuesraisesomedifcultquestions
about the future of transport in New Zealand.
Willtheincreasesinfuelcosts
signicantlyaffectdemandinthefuture
is there a tipping point?
Isitfeasibletodecoupleeconomic
growth from the adverse effects of
transport growth? Whatistherealisablepotentialfor
public transport, walking and cycling
to effectively contribute to congestion
reductionandenergyefciency?
Is
urbanintensicationdesirable,isit
effective in reducing demand, how long
will it take, and do we have effective
tools to promote it?
Whatisthelikelyfutureimpactof
improved or breakthrough vehicle
technologiesonfuelefciency,
emission reductions and safety?
Doweunderstandfuturefreight
demands and their impact on road, rail
and coastal shipping, and the inter-
modal relationships?
Arethekeyfundingmechanisms(fuel
excise tax and road user charges)
appropriate for the future?
With increasing economic activity and
demands for mobility, our society now faces
constraints in our transport networks and
the impacts on our economy, environment
and society. These are serious issues that
are compounded by major increases in fuel
costs.
New Zealands strategies to address
these issues include technology uptake,
behaviour change, demand management,
promoting land-use changes, and promoting
alternative modes walking, cycling and
publictransport.Ithasprovenverydifcultto
bringaboutsignicantchangesinbehaviour
through education, promotion and policy
interventions. Alternative modes only account
for a small proportion of travel, and can take
long periods of time to be effective.
Thedifcultiesinchangingbehaviour,the
modest contribution of other modes, and thelong lag times lead IPENZ to the view that
these mechanisms will not effectively resolve
the transport issues facing New Zealand. We
must move towards a comprehensive pricing
regime across all modes, so that users pay
the true costs of travel, including externalities.
In order to provide a framework for price-
based transport policies, New Zealand
mustndasuitablebalancebetween
each transport objective. Pricing will help
to determine the appropriate emphasis
between transport modes and our
investment, and has the potential to
reshape our funding mechanisms. But many
questions about our transport system remain
unanswered. We do not know what changes
to society, trends in freight demand, and new
technologies will mean for travel demand or
vehicle developments.
What does IPENZ recommend?
IPENZs position, as stated in Transport
Engineering the Way Forward, promotes
reducing the environmental and health
impacts of transport by using a combination
of new technology, pricing externalities
and new road safety initiatives. Our key
recommendations are as follows.
Promotetollinginitiativesandlocal
road pricing, and, in the future, move to
national electronic road pricing.
Makegreateruseofpublicdebtfor
major projects.
Takeadvantageofopportunitiesfor
public-andprivate-debtnancingof
infrastructure by removing the current
legislative impediments to public-
private partnerships (PPPs), and
providing guidance on best-practice
application of PPPs.
Analyseandresearchtransport
demand at the inter-regional and
nationallevels,andtheinuenceof
future societal and environmental
trends on demand.
Upgradethevehicleeetbypromoting
new technologies and setting minimum
fuel and greenhouse gas emission
standards for a range of fuel systems. Developahigh-levelnationalmulti-
modal freight strategy that will link
regions, forecast future demands and
identify the best ways to meet these
demands.
Promotestandardsforimprovementsto
freightvehicleefciencyandfuels,and
evaluate the effect of introducing larger
and heavier vehicles into the road
freighteet.
Analysewherethebestvalueforthe
road safety dollar might lie, and review
thebenetsrelatingtothevalueoflife.
The complete Transport Engineering
the Way Forward report is available at
www.ipenz.org.nz/ipenz/media_comm/
documents/transport_policy.pdf
Transport is high on the list of issues facing New Zealand. Congestion, fuel prices, poor road safety and other
transport woes have the potential to affect the lives of every person living in this country.
Policy Release Sets Transport Straight
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Distinguished Service Decoration (DSD)
Captain MICHAEL PETER DE BOER GIPENZ, Corps of Royal New
Zealand Engineers. For services to the New Zealand Defence Force.
MichaelservedasPlansOfcer,onsecondmenttotheAustralian
Armys Timor Leste Battle Group 2 from June to October 2007. He
was responsible for the planning of numerous operations in an
environment characterised by constant change, limited information
and a volatile strategic and political atmosphere. His professional
competence saw him placed in command of a company-sized
organisation of Australian forces, comprising infantry, engineers
and numerous specialists, for a six-week period, and charged with
containing growing violence and disorder in the notorious Viqueque
district of Timor Leste.
In addition to succeeding in all of his tactical objectives of containing
the regional violence, he creatively employed all of his commands
capabilities to effect a change in the local populations attitude, which
then allowed operations conducted by the International Stabilisation
Force to commence.
Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DCNZM)
PETER CHARLES MAIRE HonFIPENZ, of North Shore. For services to
business.
Peter is the founder and president of Navman New Zealand Ltd, a
leading international manufacturer of marine electronics and global
positioning technology, which he established in 1986. The company
employs over 300 people worldwide and had an annual turnover
of over $100 million in 2006. He is a member of the Foundation
of Research, Science and Technologys NERF Advisory Panel and
the Information and Communication Technology Taskforce. He was
awarded the Trade NZ Supreme Exporter of the Year Award in 2002,
the Westpac Hi-Tech Supreme Award for Excellence in 2002, and was
made an Honorary Fellow of IPENZ in 2005.
IPENZMembersReceiveQueensBirthdayHonours
Membership Changes to February 2008
Elected to Graduate Member
LC Abraham, JP Adams, JW Adamson, JH Ahn, U Ajmal, TJR Allan, JJ
Allport, R Amigh, DJ Andrews, NSJ Anton, DT Ashby, FA Ayan, SE Ayre,
Y Azuma, X Bai, E Balasubramaniyan, PL Beazley, TR Bellingham, JA
Bhasin, S Bossaghzadeh, AB Bougher, ES Brunette, GR Bunn, GWFBurrett,NDByron,QCai,NCampbell,MChand,MWChang,XChang,
NJ Charles, CJ Charleston, C Chen, Y Chen, CB Chetan, A Chopra, SJ
Chowdhury, TC Cronin, MG Dalzell, ME Davies, RMI Dawwas, OR de
Lautour, SM Dillon, RB Dudley, M Ebel, BS Ellison, F Feddo, BM Firme,
MW Fleming, JP Fox, TU Ganiron Jr, BF Gebreselassie, AK Gibson, AM
Gin, ST Glenny, FA Gondal, FA Hager, CM Haley, BL Halkett, TE Hassan,
SHerath,CMMHo,QGHo,BJHolliss,QHu,XHuang,CJWHurst,GJ
Hutchison, AG Inay, TW Irwin, GA Jack, SM Jayalath, PH Jenkins, JP
Jensen, Y Jia, E Jim, CA Kelly, AI Kennedy, MI Khan, SJ King, JK Kongoi,
ML Kully, AP Kumar, R Kumar, RD Kwan, A Lam, MS Lardies, F Latu, GS
Layeld,HTLeikam,CLiu,DLlorando,JRLloyd,GBLowe,LLuceno,
A Lukas, T Luo, HP Ly, N Ma, TM Mahar, R McCully, RJ McIntosh, RJ
McLachlan, K Merry, NG Meyers, KW Miller, CJ Mills, A Milne, AAM
Milne, R Mishra, M Mongia, WEL Moore, SC Morris, JW Morrison, STMowett, T Naidoo, V Naidoo, KA Newton, SA OHearn, AA Orchard, Y
Ou Yang, A Padarath, WY Pang, M Parameshwaran, SD Pasley, BH
Patel, JR Phillips, SD Pickford, JM Pointon, NN Pokasamrith, TM Porter,
JJ Pring, ML Rafferty, BJ Ramanandi, SB Rankin, JM Rathnayaka,
DE Reddy, ND Redekar, SF Reuther, GM Richardson, F Richter, M-K
Richter, TC Saddleton, MS Santos, R Saxena, KA Serpes, MTK Shaw,
P Shekar, AM Shewring, J Sim, Rajnesh Singh, Rajinesh Singh, WS
Sitana, DG Smith, DR Smith, RK Stevens, AF Stewart, P Stoeveken,
ME Symons, SR Tailby, HI Tan, XT Tang, JWF Taylor, JM Teal, DR
Tombleson, BH Tran, TP Vranjes, P Wadan, D Wang, Z Wang, TJ Watson,DM Wheatley, DT Wilson, F Wu, Y Wu, MJ Wulff, Y Xing, S Yang, NB
Yannakis,LZhang,QZhang,XZhang,CZhuang
Elected to Professional Member
WR Balsom, DR Bruce, MK Chowdhury, DJ Crichton, MCR Davies,
CT Giles, IC Hills, HGJ Huang, J Islam, AF Koay, A Kumar, HA
Madagammana, CJ McGregor, RJ McKinnon, A Menzies, KJ Miller, DN
Ouwejan, JG Ralston, NA Shaw, KCG Tang, BJ Verhoeff
Elected to Technical Member
RE Bradbury, DJ Cairn, GDJ Neal
Elected to Afliate Member
ABowey,MJChristensen,CSDCovacich,SRMailer,TFBMareet,MV
Mifrano, JE Peacock, IR Ranasinghe, P Rendle
The following is a list of additions to and changes in the classes of Membership for the period 1 March 2008 26
May 2008.
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Standards New Zealand offers several opportunities to participate in
their Standards Committees. As a Standards New Zealand Committee
member you will:
becomefamiliarwitharangeofrelatedstandards
expandandupdateyourknowledgeoflegislationandregulations
network,researchandbepartytothelatestthinkinginspecialist
technical areas
collaboratewithotherexperts,standardsorganisations,special
interest groups and regulatory bodies
useyourprofessionaljudgementtoevaluateinformationand
opinions.
Standards development relies on collaboration and networking, and
perhaps the most valuable aspect of the work is interacting with the
different organisations and individuals that make up a committee
membership. As an IPENZ Member, you are nominated to Standards
Committees on the basis that you represent the entire engineering
profession, and the role is to bring a neutral best-practice engineering
perspective to the committee. But when working on a Standards
Committee, you are also bound by the IPENZ Code of Ethics, and
have a duty to apply the code and the IPENZ ethical standards to your
deliberations.
As the nominating organisation, IPENZ has resources available to
assist you in your role and can help you address any issues that mayarise, or enable communication and debate on issues with the rest of
the engineering profession. Support is also valuable when a Member
feelstheyshouldnotgivegroundonamatterfortechnicalreasons.
Inthiscaseyouhaveanethicaldutytostandrm,andifyoufeelthat
the group is applying pressure then you can call on IPENZ for support.
OccasionallyIPENZnomineescommentthattheyndtheworkload
has become too onerous. This may be due to a range of reasons. One
frequent concern is that the Member feels he or she is carrying a
disproportionate workload compared to the rest of the committee. This
can occur because the IPENZ Member is the sole technical expert on a
particular committee. If this is the case, you should discuss the issue
with the Chair of the Standards Committee you sit on. If necessary,
the Chair can raise the issue with the Standards New Zealand Project
Manager.
Nominees should also maintain a working relationship with IPENZ
and provide feedback on an ongoing basis. IPENZ would like to know
how the Standards Committee is operating, and is interested in any
issues that may develop. A form is available for Members serving on a
StandardsCommitteetollinandforwardtoIPENZNationalOfce,at
leastonceperyear,evenifitisanullreport.
Serving on a Standards New Zealand Committee can be a very
rewarding task. It is an opportunity to contribute to the profession and
society in general.
For further information about serving on a Standards Committee,
contact CAM SMART, Engineering Practice Manager at
[email protected] or ANDREW CLARK, Manager Ethicsand Discipline at [email protected]
Further information is also available from the Standards New
Zealand document entitled Committee Members, Their Roles and
Responsibilities, which is available at http://spex.standards.co.nz/
guides/index.html
Working on a Standards Committee
Telecommunication Engineer Dies
Born in Wellington on 19 November 1920, Bruce Berghan Hands
attended Wellington College from 193236, then went on to tertiary
education, beginning his studies at Victoria University College in 1937.
While there, he held various junior part-time engineering positions with
the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Department. He graduated with a
Bachelor of Science in 1943.
War interrupted his early engineering career and Bruce served for
vemonthsasaRadarTraineewiththeRoyalNewZealandNavy.
Following the war, he returned to the New Zealand Post and Telegraph
Department in 1950 to take a role as Telegraph Engineer. He was
promoted quickly in the organisation and a year later he became
Resident Engineer, and a few years after that, District Engineer at the
nowrenamedNewZealandPostOfce.
Bruce spent 23 years as District Engineer at various locations around
New Zealand, including 13 years in Invercargill. While there he took
charge of the automation of the Invercargill telephone network
installation, which at the time, was the largest automation project ever
undertaken in New Zealand.
Bruces telecommunications expertise was extensive one of
his telecommunications facilities even earning him a special
acknowledgement from the Prime Minister.
Following his retirement in 1977, Bruce continued to work as a
management consultant for various local bodies in the West Coast and
Nelson-Marlborough regions.
He served IPENZ as Chairman of both the Southland and Nelson
Branches, and gave a great deal of his time to community activities,
serving as President of the Invercargill Rotary Club and other Nelson
community groups.
BRUCE HANDS FIPENZ, respected telecommunications engineer and administrator of Invercargills modern
telephone network installation, died in May aged 87
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With the new Professional Development
Partner programme well under way, IPENZ
is working to support employers as they
design, implement and maintain professional
development programmes for their staff.
Employers now fully recognise continuing
professional development (CPD) as an
integral part of their organisations strategicplan. To ensure that CPD remains high
on everyones agenda, we are offering
employers the opportunity to access IPENZs
online engineering calendar via an IPENZ
icon on their intranet.
By clicking on the icon, employers are taken
to a search engine where they can look for
a wide range of CPD events by location, skill
category and delivery method (distance
learning, public and in-house programmes).
This means that by a simple click of themouse, your employees will have a vast array
of technical and essential skills courses to
choosefromattheirngertips!
Tools like the IPENZ CPD icon not only
save your human resources staff time but
encourage all staff members to feed back
any learning needs they may have, identify
opportunities to enhance their professional
development, and contribute towards your
businesss performance.
To take up this opportunity please contactthe Professional Development Advisor at
phone 04 474 8984.
Professional Development at Your Fingertips
July
Resource Management Act
Hamilton 17 July
Christchurch 23 July
Leadership and Management
Taupo 21 July
Risk Analysis
Auckland 29 July
August
Report Writing
Auckland 6 August
Christchurch 27 August
Negotiating Skills
Hamilton 11 August
Business Development
Auckland 15 August
Time and Priority
Christchurch 7 August
Auckland 26 August
September
Climate Change
Wellington 3 September
Christchurch 4 September
Auckland 11 September
Taupo 17 September
Specication Practice
Wellington 5 September
Technical Expert
Chirstchurch 9 September
Negotiating Skills
Auckland 12 September
Consultation and Engineers
Chirstchurch 17 September
Auckland 23 September
Taupo 25 September
Business Development
Wellington 26 September
Afliatedcourses
NZWETA
Principles and Trends of Wastewater
Treatment
Auckland 4 August
Conned Space Training Course
Auckland 6 August
Hamilton 26 August
Advanced Stormwater Design and
Management
Christchurch 12 August
Water and Environmental Sampling
Palmerston North 12 August
Stormwater Management
Auckland 27 August
VUW
Practical Project Management
Wellington 13 August
Strategic Leadership
Wellington 28 August
Stakeholder Management
Wellington 19 September
Project Management Level 1
Wellington 22 September
Time and Stress Management for the Ofce
Wellington 25 September
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