Join us to celebrate and uplift Māori engineers and engineering. Read on for stories of Māori ingenuity in engineering and to access useful resources.
Stories by Engineering New Zealand
20 June 2024
Engineers work with whenua (land), wai (water), and ngā rangi (skies). Learn about the stars of Matariki and their engineering connection, and how your mahi interacts with these environments.
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20 June 2024
Alyce Lysaght received a 2023 Engineering New Zealand Foundation Grant for her interview-based podcast that elevates Māori engineers and uplifts their voices through kōrero.
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24 April 2024
Meet Papaki Parihau, the Māori Advisory Rōpū guiding us through the Kimihia Rangahaua workplan and learn what’s been happening to uplift Māori, support connections and value mātauranga Māori in engineering practice.
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Stories by other publications
17 September 2024
The restoration of Lake Whatumā aims to restore the mauri – the life force – of the lake, and connect the people to the lake. Enhancing water quality and biodiversity while creating new facilities and educational opportunities are key to this project's success.
4 June 2024
After six months of successful testing, Te Pā Tūwatawata, a world-first data storage infrastructure solution built by Iwi Māori for Iwi Māori, is expected to launch early 2025. The distributed storage network will empower iwi, hapū and whānau Māori to control their own data.
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Webinars
Engineering New Zealand Fellowship: A Pathway for Māori and South Pacific professional engineers
Join MC Sina Cotter Tait and recent 2024 Fellowship awardees Paul Morgan (Ngai Tahu), Warner Cowin (Ngāti Porou) and Troy Brockbank (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi, Ngātiwai, Ngāti Kahu) as they discuss their Fellowship experiences.
The session offers unique insight from Māori and Pacific Island engineering Fellows on what it entails, what the benefits are, as well as guidance on the pathway to becoming one.
Articles
Green Star is Australasia's largest voluntary sustainability rating system for non-residential buildings, fitouts and communities. Created by Green Building Council Australia in 2003, and adapted for Aotearoa New Zealand, Green Star provides a rating of up to six stars based on a building's key sustainability credentials.
Green Star certification is available for every commercial building type; from schools and hospitals, to office buildings, shopping centres, and industrial warehouses. It can even be used for large-scale community developments.
In 2023 Te Kaunihera Hananga Tautaiao o Aotearoa/The New Zealand Green Building Council's Māori technical working group challenged Green Star to better recognise Māori and the intersection between environmental stewardship and economic development while preserving culture and quality of life. The result is the Tohu Māori Ora credit within Green Star Buildings NZ providing recognition and reward that goes beyond certification.
