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IPENZ Heritage Objectives
IPENZ has an active programme for the identification and promotion
of New Zealand’s engineering heritage. The objective of this
Heritage Programme is:
To inspire and teach present and future generations
about New Zealand's engineering heritage by preserving the legacy
of the past through its identification, maintenance and promotion.
Activity Groups
Within this programme are three main activities with associated
goals:
1) Identifying and promoting New Zealand's engineering
heritage.
- Identify and register sites, projects, and structures with characteristics
and features that make them worthy of being recorded as an important
aspect of the nation's engineering heritage.
- Ensure that photographs, plans and other archival material relevant
to engineering heritage are preserved.
- Maintain a collection of books that document New Zealand's engineering
heritage.
- List and promote collections and museums of items of engineering
interest.
- Promote to the engineering profession the importance of recognising,
identifying and recording engineering heritage in their practice
of engineering.
- Promote New Zealand's engineering heritage through written material,
published papers and the internet.
2) Recording the biographical details of retired and eminent
engineers.
- Obtain from retired members a biographical record of their careers
for access by researchers.
- Arrange oral history interviews of significant engineers and
make the tapes available to researchers and others with an interest
in the material.
3) Supporting and co-operating with individuals, organisations
and institutions that are documenting, maintaining, educating and
disseminating engineering heritage.
- Develop and promulgate policies and guidelines on engineering
heritage and its conservation.
- Provide political, strategic and operational support to individuals
and organisations involved in storing, recording and maintaining
engineering heritage.
- Seek IPENZ representation on bodies dedicated to heritage issues.
- Assist and advise organisations involved in education and dissemination
of engineering heritage knowledge.
- Maintain liaison with the National Committee on Engineering
Heritage of the Institution of Engineers, Australia.
National Engineering Heritage Committee
The National Engineering Heritage Committee (presently based in Wellington) assists with the development of policy for the IPENZ Heritage Programme, as well as providing specialist advice on engineering heritage issues. The committee in turn is assisted by Regional Heritage Chapters located in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin.
Engineering Database and Heritage Register
IPENZ has a web-based National Engineering Heritage Database .
This is a repository of information to assist those who want to
explore, research and enjoy New Zealand’s engineering heritage.
Information in this database has been subject to an initial review
by IPENZ to ascertain its general appropriateness.
Closely linked with the Database is a Register. This contains a
more comprehensive assessment of selected engineering heritage items.
This information has been subject to formal assessment procedures
and can be relied upon by researchers as having been validated.
It includes information from the IPENZ 1990 Heritage Plaque Programme.
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