MINUTES
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 Ltd: Chris Hopgood
Engineering New Zealand: Martin Pratchett
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.
Apologies: Nick Hill
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 click here for Thomas’ presentation.
Below, find resources that Thomas mentioned during his presentation:
Pro Clima also took some photos during the event, which you can find here: https://nextcloud.proclima.co.nz/s/SFH3xpH8AqaFDRC
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
AGM:
Wellington Chairperson’s Annual Report
The plan for the branch this year was to get branch meetings back on a regular schedule following 2021 which faced restrictions on face-to-face meetings and resulted in us having to postpone some meetings.
The Wellington Branch has had a total of four meetings this year, this meeting (1 December 2022) being the fourth. The highest attended meeting was in October which had 19 attendees.
The membership total of the branch this time last year was 96. The Wellington Branch now has 105 members and counting. The Wellington branch makes up 8% of the BOINZ total membership which is currently at 1294.
Two Wellington Branch members received awards at the BOINZ conference this year. Congratulations to Jessica Keltie who won the Emerging Leader Award and Wayne Goodfellow who won the Contribution to BOINZ Award.
This year was the first full year for the new branch executive. A huge thanks to:
Inka Gliesche-Humphris
Rosie Chote
Wayne Goodfellow
Rob Tierney
Jeremy Strongman
We would like to thank everyone who has attended our meetings throughout the year and hope to see you at future meetings in 2023.
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 at 4.00pm.
