WELLINGTON BRANCH TRAINING AND NETWORKING EVENT
held on
Thursday, 1 December 2022 2.00-4.00pm
at
Pro Clima NZ Ltd, 47 The Esplanade
Attendance:
Pro Clima: Thomas van Raamsdonk
Fire and Emergency New Zealand: Rosie Chote, Jessica Keltie, Yusuf Khan
Porirua City Council: Tom Straker
Wellington City Council: Jeremy Strongman, Steve Kallahar, Maggie Kay, David Pawson
BOINZ: Dana Mackay, Belinda Dunn
Summerset Group Holdings Limited: Inka Gliesche-Humphris
Kainga Ora - Homes and Communities: Adrian Cullen, Phil Boyle
MBIE: Richard London
South Wairarapa District Council: Emelia Lukins
Comply NZ: Chris Hopgood
Apologies: Nick Hill
Welcome:
Jessica Keltie, the Branch Chair opened the meeting by welcoming all attendants. She went on to thank Pro Clima, Thomas van Raamsdonk, Sandra Stoklaskova, Kristin Paget, as well as the two presenters Thomas van Raamsdonk and Martin Pratchett and informed the meeting attendants about the AGM, which would be held at the end of the meeting.
Guest Presentation:
Thomas van Raamsdonk - Chief Executive of Pro Clima in New Zealand and Australia.
Topic: Climate change and changes to H1
Thomas holds an engineering degree specialising in building physics and energy efficiency. Thomas has extensive professional knowledge on airtightness, thermal bridging, healthy homes, Blower Door testing and Passive House. In 2011, he was one of a team of experts who authored and published A New Zealand Based Study on Airtightness and Moisture Management. Thomas is passionate about growing building industry knowledge by sharing his experience. He is determined and dedicated to improving building standards to ensure warm, dry, healthy, durable and energy-efficient living for everyone. Dave is a Chartered Professional Engineer and obtained Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees at the University of Canterbury.
Before his presentation Thomas welcomed the Wellington BOINZ Branch members to Pro Clima’s new offices, which he says they have moved to only a few months ago. Thomas said this was their first public meeting and that they intend to make their office available to any interested parties in the future.
Please see powerpoint for Thomas’ presentation:
Below, find resources that Thomas mentioned during his presentation:
- Pro Clim New Zealand Study: https://proclima.co.nz/pro-clima-study/
- Pro Clima Australia Study: https://proclima.com.au/pro-clima-australia-study/
- Blower Door website: https://blower-door.co.nz/
Pro Clima also took some photos during the event, which you can find here: https://nextcloud.proclima.co.nz/s/SFH3xpH8AqaFDRC
During his presentation Thomas invited the Branch to attend a Blower Door test. He suggested Jessica contact Soren to organise this as a fieldtrip.
Guest Presentation:
Martin Pratchett - Engineering New Zealand.
Topic: P21 Guidance Document Release
Martin formerly practised as a structural engineer in Lower Hutt for four years. He currently works as an Engineering Practice Manager at Engineering New Zealand. Martin works with engineering technical groups and regulators to help produce good practice guidance for the engineering community. A large part of Martin's role is communicating with regulators to find out where common problems are, to see how they can be helped, and ensure that good practice is the same throughout the country.
Martin said there are several resources BCAs could find interesting. They mostly sit on this page https://www.engineeringnz.org/engineer-tools/engineering-documents/guidelines/
A direct link to the document, which Martin discussed at the meeting is here: https://www.engineeringnz.org/documents/1211/BracingUnits-SEDStructures.pdf
General business/matters arising:
Jessica informed the Branch the conference registrations have now opened, and read through the annual report as part of the AGM
End of Meeting
Meeting closed at 4.00pm.
