Welcome to the Otago Branch of IPENZ

Welcome to the Otago Branch of IPENZ. We have a very active IPENZ Branch and generally have at least one to two events per month. We endeavour to have a variety of events including presentations, site visits and social functions.

Most presentations are held at the Skeggs Gallery in the Municipal Chambers, The Octagon, Dunedin.

Talks are preceded by drinks and nibbles and this is a good opportunity to socialise with other Branch Members and guests.

Our committee meetings are held in John Wickliffe House in the Exchange on the first Thursday of the month.

We also have an engenerate section to cater to students and graduate engineers. The Otago Branch is also active in Futureintech, an initiative to attract more young people to careers in Science, Engineering and Technology.

We as a committee are always looking to involve more Members in our Branch activities, so we would love to see you at some of our events. If there is anything else you would like to see happen, if you have an idea for an event, presentation or a site visit, then please contact one of the committee members and we’ll see what we can do to put things in motion.

Greg Leonard
IPENZ Otago Branch

Branch Committee

Greg Leonard – Branch Chairman
Greg’s involvement with the Otago Branch of IPENZ dates back to April 2006 when he took up the role of Branch Treasurer. He is currently the Branch Chairman.

For the last three years he has been and environmental engineer in the Dunedin office of Duffill Watts, involved with large wastewater projects in Dunedin, Wanaka and Nelson, and a number of smaller water and stormwater projects throughout Dunedin City and Central Otago.  Greg’s particular interest is hydraulic network modeling.

For three years, prior to working at Duffill Watts, Greg was a postdoctoral fellow in the Physics Department at the University of Otago.  His primary role was to lead a field team to Antarctica during the austral winter of 2003 to study the formation of sea ice in McMurdo Sound.

In June 2008 Greg joined the University of Otago’s School of Surveying, where he teaches the civil engineering portion of the curriculum.  

Gavin Beattie – Branch Secretary and Treasurer
Gavin joined IPENZ as a student member in 1998, became GIPENZ in 2001 and MIPENZ in 2007.

He joined the Otago Branch Committee in 2006 and chaired the committee in 2007.

Gavin is a mechanical engineer with MWH in Dunedin whom he joined after graduating from the University of Canterbury in 2001.

His career highlights include the  design and commissioning work on The Drop hydro power scheme in Australia and design work on other hydro power schemes in New Zealand and Fiji.  

Gavin enjoys skiing and mountain biking in his spare time.

Also
Ron Brooks - Programme
Alec Mitchell - Newsletter Editor
Helen Wightman - Student Representative
Glen Mitchell - engenerate Facilitator