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Aaron Parker Cook Costello engineering technician Aaron Parker presented to an audience of 400 people at the 2016 International 12d Conference in Brisbane. This was a consequence of his realisation that in a multidisciplinary company such as Cook Costello, where architects, engineers and surveyors work together, there is a need to create better digital communication and workflow between the three disciplines. Parker found a breakthrough in the manner in which 12d software can be used to integrate civil design data with architectural software ArchiCAD. "This enables the civil design data to be output from, who design in meters, into millimetre relevant coordinates for the architectural team to work on," he says. The design can then be reimported into 12d in the correct coordinates, which also allows the surveyors to complete their survey set outs. "The implementation of this process by the team at Cook Costello results in thorough checks and fewer errors as well as eliminating on-site clashes and saving time and ultimately money," says Parker. "While this may sound technical and insignificant, the impact of this investigation and development in utilising the software is huge." Parker stresses that his efforts and findings will assist the efficiency of other engineers and the industry as a whole. 16 Annual Directory 2017 Andrew Barclay Wyma Solutions was sold to husband and wife Andrew and Angela Barclay in 2001. Barclay, in the role of managing director, has changed the business from a small and predominantly local supplier to a large global company. His background as a civil and structural engineer as well as his business acumen allow him to seamlessly transfer between the role of managing director providing overall guidance and direction to the business to providing direct project support to the engineering and manufacturing teams. One of Barclay’s core strengths is his ability to relate directly to Wyma’s customers as a result of his approachable and personable manner coupled with his engineering expertise and intellect. This enables him to genuinely determine their technical needs and apply that to Wyma’s customised solutions. He has also been instrumental in setting up a subsidiary in Europe to provide customers and dealers shorter delivery lead times for equipment, spare parts and servicing. The subsidiary is providing a strong platform to enable further growth in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Additional local representation has also been established in Australia, the UK, the US and China to directly assist a large customer base. Bastiaan Kleijn Bastiaan Kleijn’s research focuses on developing solutions for real-world problems associated with achieving high quality audio and video signals. His current research projects include speech as a hierarchy for improved intelligibility of noise-contaminated speech, multi-zone sound for improved personal audio, beam forming for clearer mobile calls, and quantisation for higher quality signals. Using signal processing, information theory and machine learning techniques, Kleiijn has successfully applied these solutions to achieve robust source coding for packet networks, enhanced single and multi-channel speech and video, improved accuracy of model estimation, and algorithms that predict perceived signal quality. Kleijn is a professor at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a part-time professor at Delft University of Technology’s multimedia signal processing group. He founded Global IP Solutions, a company that develops audio and video processing technologies for communication over the internet. It was recently acquired by Google. Before living in Sweden, Kleijn worked in the research division of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, mostly in the area of speech processing. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Delft University of Technology and a PhD in soil science from the University of California. Bevan Whiting Bevan Whiting is a design engineer for Vestner New Zealand. His passion for design and engineering is a result of growing up in the workshop of his father’s mechanical engineering business. After a stint in the building industry where he completed his building apprenticeship he returned to the design field working with electric vehicles, lifts and specialty one-off designed products. Later in 2006 he joined the team at Vestner, formerly Pandect, to head up the company's design laboratory. For the past four years he has been largely dedicated to research, development, design and prototyping of Vestner’s latest MAXIS lift. Ben Reyngoud Ben Reyngoud joined Syft Technologies in May 2015 after completing his PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of Canterbury. His materials science background adds to the diverse range of specialties at Syft. Most importantly, his PhD has shaped the way he approaches a problem, and has taught him how to communicate technical information clearly to those in other fields. Syft has provided Reyngoud with diverse opportunities in production optimisation, project leadership, development and design work. In these positions he has demonstrated excellent management skills, enabling him to rapidly move into the role of development manager. Much of the project work in this role has involved delivery of different gas samples to the analytical instrument.  His key achievements include autosampler integration project management, hardware design and testing, and commercialisation; auto-validation inlet design, testing and commercialisation; and corrosive resistant inlet design and testing, with commercialisation set to occur in early 2017. Reyngoud enjoys interacting with suppliers, clients and distributors from expositions right through to tailoring bespoke solutions or installing instrumentation at customer sites. To ensure a top quality product he remains fully involved throughout, making his role interesting and varied. The MAXIS lift boasts a radical design that can surface mount to the floor without a pit and free-stand on a building without structural load. It is housed within its own minimalist glass shaft. Whiting’s engineering expertise is focused on the redesign and development of Vestner’s current low-rise platform lift models to achieve a design that will surpass what is currently being imported into Australasia through the use of new materials and manufacturing techniques. Given the constant development of new technologies, materials, processes and mediums, Whiting is looking forward to pushing design boundaries even further in his work. WHO'S WHO


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