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The members of the Chartered Professional Engineers Council are:

Mr Graham Shaw, Chairman, appointed 8 October 2008 until 7 October 2011
Mr Shaw is a Wellington based Director in Corporate Concerns, providing commercial advisory services and specialising in strategic development and the mentoring and coaching of senior executives.  He brings accountancy skills and a history of working in the engineering sector.  Mr Shaw initially worked in finance 
roles and later had five years experience as Chief Executive of Works Infrastructure.  He also held the role of Chief Executive at Kensington Swan for two years while overseeing a period of restructuring.  Mr Shaw also holds directorships in the private sector as well as sitting on a number of advisory boards and is Deputy Chair of the Aroha Care Centre for the Elderly Trust and Taita Home Trust Boards.

Mr Andrew Read - FIPENZ, Deputy Chairman, appointed 18 December 2009 until 
17 December 2014
Mr Read is based in Christchurch and works for Pedersen Read ...

Ms Hazel Armstrong, Consumer Representative, member, appointed 8 October 2008 until 
7 October 2011. 
Ms Armstrong is a sole barrister specialising in personal injury, safety, health and employment law.  Ms Armstrong is a former director of ACC and a Ministerial appointee to their Regulations Review Panel.  She is Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Panel on Work Related Gradual Process (Disease or Infection) and was 
a member of the Asbestos Advisory Committee and Government Advisory Committee on Occupational Health and Safety. Ms Armstrong has been Deputy Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority and acted as counsel for the Rail Maritime Transport Union during the Ministerial Inquiry into Trans Rail Safety. Ms Armstrong has recently been appointed to the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board.


Mr Roland Frost - FIPENZ, member - IPENZ nominee, appointed 8 October 2008 until 
7 October 2011.
Mr Frost graduated with a civil engineering degree from Canterbury University in 1972.  His first employment was the Ministry of Works in Waikato. The range and scale of projects undertaken by the Ministry through the 1970s and 1980s enabled Mr Frost to gain a variety of experience in the civil, structural and geotechnical fields. In 1997 Mr Frost moved on to Beca, opening their Hamilton office before relocating to Auckland where he held 
a senior position as Beca's general manager civil engineering. He continued to lead major infrastructure projects for Beca until 2005 when he joined Transit New Zealand.  In this role Mr Frost has responsibility for the operations of the total state highway network including engineering standards, managing network demands, and maintenance. He recently rejoined Beca as a senior shareholder in Tauranga. Mr Frost is also a past president of IPENZ.


Mr Andrew Hazelton, Lawyer, member
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appointed 18 May 2003until 7 October 2010
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Mr Hazelton is a partner in the specialist construction law practice of Hazelton LAW. He has a Masters Degree in Construction Law from the Centre for Construction Law and Management, Kings College, London and as part of that degree he studied technical issues relating to construction and engineering. Mr Hazelton's professional  experience ranges from litigation, arbitration and adjudication relating to substantial construction and engineering issues to the drafting of project documentation. He has also represented parties at quasi-judicial disciplinary bodies, as well as prosecuting and defending clients under environmental legislation
 

Mrs Vivian Kloosterman - FIPENZ, member, appointed 18 May 2003 until 7 October 2010.
Mrs Kloosterman, a Chartered Professional Engineer, has 28 years professional engineering experience. For 18 years she has been the Managing Director of V K Consulting Environmental Engineers Ltd; an environmental engineering and planning consultancy. Her areas of specialisation include water, storm water,  and wastewater collection and treatment systems. Her technical work involves feasibility investigations, strategic planning, obtaining resource consents, design and implementation. She is a member of the Standards Council, the governing body of Standards New Zealand; and is immediate past Chair of the Natural Resources Engineering Advisory Group, University of Canterbury. 

Ms Sharyn Westlake - FIPENZ, member, appointed 25 August 2006 until 5 October 2012.
Ms Westlake is a civil engineer, with both regional government and engineering consultancy experience. She is currently Team Leader Strategy and Technical Support in the Flood Protection Department of the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Ms Westlake was a member of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) governing Board from 2000-March 2006, and in 2003 served on the Competence Assessment Board (CAB) as the IPENZ Board representative.  The CAB is the decision making body on registration decisions.  Prior to 2000, she served for several years on the Committee of the New Zealand Coastal Society. 

Mr Jon Williams - FIPENZ, member, appointed 1 July 2010 until 30 June 2015.
Mr Wiliams is Auckland based and works for Beca Group of Consulting Engineers ...

 

 

 

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