John Brook Vega engineering manager John Brook has spent his career in research and development, initially developing broadcast digital video effects equipment in the UK in the 1980s. Later he joined an Australian Research and development subsidiary of a major Japanese corporation where he developed digital colour imaging and rendered hardware and software technologies. WHO'S WHO www.engineeringnews.co.nz 21 Jeremy Allen Jeremy Allen is Energy Solution Providers (ESP) company founder and currently its sales engineer. During his first job at Mighty River Power he realised that companies are keen to reduce their power consumption and cost but do not have the wherewithal to do so in terms of data and information on “what is consuming how much and when”. This inspired Allen to create ESP in 2001 and provide companies with relevant data. "The data removes opinion, intuition and estimates and focuses the analysis on the 'best bang for buck'," he says. Unlocking the value from metering data requires normalisation against outside temperatures, production volumes and type, shift hours and the like, which ESP is expert at determining. This ensures the data is relevant. Following this, ESP compares against target, agreed baselines, other similar operations in the company, other similar companies, and best practice. Born in Alberta, Canada, Allen grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan and graduated as a commercial pilot. After four years of flying into communities with no roads in northern Canada, he decided to follow his parents to New Zealand. He lives in Taupaki on a lifestyle block with his three young kids. Jerome Partington Jerome Partington is in-house sustainability manager at Jasmax. The company is renowned as one of New Zealand’s largest and most established architecture and design practices. Operating within the company’s highly specialist knowledge, research and design innovation team, Partington works closely with the team’s building scientist to model the operational performance of many of its designs. Through early concept modelling he analyses internal comfort, envelope performance and solutions, which in turn help Jasmax to collaborate more effectively with engineers and offer the best envelope to match company designs with smaller active systems. Partington also works with engineers to reduce toxicity and water usage in buildings that integrate carbon sequestration and make use of local materials. Jasmax projects are considered New Zealand’s leading examples of green, sustainable and regenerative outcomes, which leave a lasting legacy. A particular example is Ngai Tuhoe’s restorative headquarters, Te Uru Taumatua. Jasmax has been operational for over 53 years, bringing to the table a level of depth and breadth of design experience unique in New Zealand. This is manifest in many of its projects receiving awards, including the largest structures’ test hall in Australasia at the University of Auckland’s engineering school in Newmarket, Auckland. Joseph Cockroft Joseph Cockroft joined Professional CAD Systems in 2003. Currently he is in the role of a 3D solutions consultant as a result of his ability to master software rapidly and thereafter sell, support and give advice to organisations as to how to improve systems and design workflows to increase productivity and reduce expenses. Cockroft predicts that in the future every company will have a 3D scanner or portable coordinate measurement machine (PCMM) for 3D measurement. “This will replace the manual way we measure today and reduce measurement errors significantly,” he says. In 2010 he was instrumental in discovering the HandySCAN and obtaining a New Zealand Distributorship agreement between Creaform, the developer of the HandySCAN, and Professional CAD Systems. He demonstrates – with dedication and tenacity – how scanners can optimise engineering, resulting in a notable increases in the company’s 3D scanner customer base. His colleagues attribute his success not only to his technical ability gleaned over 13 years but his ‘never give up’ attitude and vision as to how 3D systems can benefit anyone who wishes to design, collaborate and communicate in 3D. They also attribute his success to his honest, hard working and affable nature. Cockroft says his ultimate goal is for Professional CAD Systems and Creaform to become synonymous with 3D scanning. He invented or co-invented ten US patents. After returning to New Zealand in 2009, Brook joined Vega Industries. Vega designs and manufactures lighted navigational aids and optical, electronic and electro-mechanical instruments which have made a significant contribution to transport safety in many parts of the world. As engineering manager at Vega Brook quickly discovered the technological challenges involved in designing topof the-line aids to navigation. This did not deter him though as over the last seven years he and his team have designed market leading optics to light some of the most challenging waterways around the world. One of the biggest projects of 2016 was the design and commissioning of one of the world’s largest sector lights for the United States Navy. Diego Garcia is a tiny atoll in the Indian Ocean, home to a United States navy support facility. Vega was approached to design a customised sector light. The full solution was delivered via military transport in March 2016. John Hare John Hare, the Christchurch-headquartered national chief executive of engineering specialists Holmes Group, has raised the red flag over tall Wellington office blocks after the earthquakes hit in November. He points out that the longer the duration of an earthquake, the more blocks are affected. He elaborates that buildings can move 200mm to 300mm in each direction as a result of an earthquake of that magnitude and that the extent of the damage varies between buildings contingent on building type and height. He advises closer scrutiny of some of the taller buildings in Wellington because they gradually build up momentum. He uses the analogy of a kid on a swing to make his point, that is that the building is rigid but the more it moves the more it contents with stress on its joints. He warns that more severe damage could be in the offing and that Holmes Group will be checking stairwells, lift wells, support walls, ceiling spaces and joints between all the beams and columns. In 2013 he won an Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand award. He and has held senior leadership and governance roles within Holmes Group, as well as sitting on a number of advisory boards and committees. John Brook pictured right
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