Engineering New Zealand has upheld a complaint by
Tauranga City Council against engineer Bruce Cameron
relating to residential property developments in the
Tauranga area between 2015 and 2016. Most of the services Mr
Cameron provided were to do with residential retaining
walls, foundation designs and construction
monitoring.
An Engineering New Zealand Disciplinary
Committee ordered Mr Cameron be removed from the Chartered
Professional Engineers register on 25 June 2019 with no
option for reinstatement for two years. He was also ordered
to pay $19,000 towards the costs of the
investigation.
The Disciplinary Committee’s decision
was issued in 2019 but has not been published until now due
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 1:53 pm
The 2021 ANZ Premiership Grand Final has been confirmed
to be played at Spark Arena in Auckland on Sunday 8
August.
The season decider is part of the
competition’s Finals Series which sees the second and
third placed teams at the end of the regular season face off
in the Elimination Final, with the winner meeting the minor
premiers in the Grand Final.
The Elimination Final
will be played on Sunday 1 August and will be hosted by the
team which finishes the season second in the
standings.
ANZ Premiership Commissioner Kate Agnew
said the Grand Final would be a fitting way to close out
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 12:13 pm
Leading software development service provider, Augen
Software Group, today unveiled its extensive rebrand and
name change to CodeHQ, to better reflect its growth, evolved
service offering and new vision.
Co-founded by CEO
Peter Vile and Board Director Mitchell Pham in 1993,
Augen’s unique model combines the best in local expertise
with offshore development scale via their ‘one team in two
markets’ run across New Zealand and Vietnam.
Augen
has proudly worked with many growing and established New
Zealand businesses both in the technology sector and more
broadly across the business space to help them achieve their
software development aspirations.
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 1:45 pm
While all sectors are experiencing skills shortages, a
survey underway is finding critical digital skills shortages
impacting all parts of the New Zealand
economy.
NZTech, the organisation tasked with
providing the voice for the technology ecosystem, has been
collecting input via a digital
skills survey which is revealing a desperate need to
find solutions. For the last five years between 4000 to 5000
tech professionals have immigrated to New Zealand. But Covid
has stopped this and it is choking the pace of New
Zealand’s recovery.
NZTech chief executive Graeme
Muller says the survey, which has been in the market a mere
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 2:57 pm
The Environmental Protection Agency has asked New
Zealanders to share information about how they use the
chemical Glyphosate and about the effects the chemical is
having on our health and environment.
According to New
Zealand s Ministry for Primary Industries Glyphosate is used
in about 90 products, of which Roundup is the most
recognised brand. Non-Toxic Neighbourhoods Northland
spokesperson, Kim Fairhurst said, “It is used so widely
here that it’s difficult to find a street, park or school
that isn’t being sprayed with some kind of Glyphosate
based herbicide (GBH) on a regular basis.”
It is
normal to see Council contractors in hi-vis vests with