Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand
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| Formation | 1914 (New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers) |
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| Type | Professional body |
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Membership
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about 16,000 |
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President
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Elena Trout |
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Chief executive
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Susan Freeman-Greene |
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Staff
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60 |
| Website | www |
The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) is a not-for-profit professional body representing the engineering profession in New Zealand. It has around 16,000 members who are either engineers or have a special interest in engineering, usually practising in New Zealand.
As engineering is a self-regulating profession in New Zealand, IPENZ attempts to promote the interests of the New Zealand engineering profession via support services to members. Primary IPENZ services include career development for members, the implementation of competence and ethical practice standards and community recognition of engineering. Most members pay annual fees, often covered by their employer. As a member they must abide by the IPENZ Code of Ethics that aims to ensure ethical engineering practice. IPENZ also promotes public debate on engineering issues and stewards national engineering awards.
IPENZ is governed by an elected board, chaired by the president and including 11 other members. This board sets strategy and employs the chief executive, who manages the expenditure of the budget to provide services to members and to fund activities defined by its strategy. The national office is based in Wellington, and there are regional branches to which members belong. Members can also be part of a technical group or special interest group that focuses on a niche area of engineering.
The first professional engineering body in New Zealand, the Institute of Local Government Engineers of New Zealand, was formed in 1912. The following year the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers was formed. It was thought to be more representative of the engineering profession, and the two bodies merged in 1914.
With the growth of the Society and an increasing number of non-civil engineers, a name change to The New Zealand Institution of Engineers was necessary in 1937. In 1959 the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand (ACENZ) was created as a consultancy division, and it became a separate entity in 1970. The name IPENZ was adopted in 1982 to reflect the importance of the 'professional' engineering ethos in the organisation.
In the interest of the New Zealand public, IPENZ administers several competence-based membership classes and registers that act as signifiers of competence to users of engineering services.
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