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Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to speak to you today.

It’s quite an achievement to have reached your 50 year anniversary.

I’m aware that you’ve got over 1500 members and that’s surely a testament to both the great need for the skills of senior engineering technologists, and of the benefits of registration.

Acknowledgements

Mayor Bob Parker and Mayoress Jo Nicholls-Parker

Dame Margaret Bazley

Geoff Bascand

Roger Sutton

The owners of Dollan House, Vincent and Cecilia Chia

Introduction:

• Good afternoon I am pleased to have this opportunity to speak to you today.

• Today I would like to spend a few minutes on the Government’s priorities for the building and construction sector and the Department of Building and Housing’s work programme.

• And I would like to thank Registered Master Builders (RMBF) for the work you have done in supporting the Department to implement the programme so far.

• Good morning. Thank you for inviting me to open your conference - it is a pleasure to be here again.

• I would like to acknowledge Andrew Giles, CEO of the Retirement Villages Association of Australia who is attending the conference.

• Thank you Geoff, and thank you all for making time to be here today. What a fantastic room Matangireia is – steeped in Māori political history.

Introduction:

• Good morning, I am pleased to have this opportunity to speak to you and deliver this year’s Bunckenburg Address.

• I see the address - named in honour of your former President Henry Herbert Bunckenburg – has been a tradition of the NZIQS since 1986. I am honoured to be the latest person to deliver this speech to you.

• This morning I will cover Government’s priorities for the building and construction sector and the Department of Building and Housing’s work programme.

Introduction

• Good evening, and thank you for inviting me here to speak at your Annual Meeting.

• I know we share a common goal in wanting to raise standards and productivity across the construction industry.

• Your own Board Chairman, Bill Smith, is also the Chair of the Building and Construction Sector’s Productivity Partnership. This forum was established as an active partnership between professionals like you, and a government committed to growing the sector.

Acknowledgements:

David Brown, Chairman, CBANZ
Richard Merrifield, Past Chairman, CBANZ
Grant Florence, Chief Executive, CBANZ

Acknowledgements:

Phil Saunders, BOINZ President
Norm Barton, BOINZ Vice-President
Nick Hill, BOINZ Chief Executive

Introduction:

• Good morning and thank you for inviting me to deliver the keynote address to your Annual Conference for 2012.

• I note you have chosen as the theme for your conference, “Enhancing Professionalism”.

• Good morning everyone, it is a pleasure to be here today.

Background
• We live in a changing world, and there has been an extraordinary shift in relative economic power from the developed world, our traditional trade and investment partners, to the emerging economies - particularly China.

• Many analysts have pointed out that this is simply a reversion to the past. Two hundred and fifty years ago, most of the world’s wealth was generated from economies where most of the world’s people lived.

• Good morning to you all and thank you for inviting me back to open this year’s symposium.

• Spatial information has almost unlimited power and potential to transform and inform our lives, our business models, and the way we interact with and view the world.

• And as we now know all too well, spatial information has also proved itself a powerful tool in the response to a crisis situation.

• As we’ve discovered over the past 18 months in New Zealand, the landscape is not constant.

Acknowledgements

• Joe Hollander, Chair, Construction Clients’ Group
• Peter Cunningham, CEO, Constructing Excellence NZ (construction industry umbrella organisation which facilitates the Construction Clients’ Group)
• Professor Michael Davies, Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Auckland University.

• Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me here to speak with you today.

• I know we share some common concerns in regard to increasing quality in the building industry, not just through practitioners but also in ensuring the quality of products used.

• Like you, I support practical regulation of the industry through national and consistent application of the New Zealand Building Code and New Zealand standards.

• Good morning, and welcome to you all. It’s great to be here today to open the first Shallow Survey conference to be held in New Zealand.

• A special welcome to those of you who have travelled to be here today. I understand that in addition to the New Zealand delegates from around the country we also have a diverse international audience here with us.

• I hope you enjoy your time here, and that you get the opportunity to explore some of what our wonderful capital city has to offer.

• Welcome to you all and thank you for asking me to speak to you this evening

• I think this is a very important time to be in the Building and Construction sector there are a lot of changes happening and I am gratified by the support we have received from you on our package of reforms

CTV report

• Today the Department of Building and Housing released the final report into the collapse of the CTV building in Christchurch in the 22 February quake.