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16 May 2019
Auckland woman
helps Waho Bridge rebuild
How do you cope when the project
you’re working on is not only followed
by the media but also by your family?
For Second Lieutenant Laura Bayfield,
it’s all part of a day’s work.
As the Officer in Charge of the New
Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) contingent
sent to South Westland, she is
leading the 16 engineers from the New
Zealand Army’s 2nd Engineer Regiment
working with the New Zealand Transport
Agency and Downer to rebuild
Waiho Bridge.
The bridge was washed away during
heavy rain on 26 March, cutting off
access between Fox Glacier and Franz
Josef and costing the Westland community
an estimated $3 million a day in
lost tourism income.
“It’s awesome to be here to help out the
community and support the New Zealand
Transport Agency,” Second Lieutenant
Bayfield says.
Her current assignment is also drawing
lots of interest from her family and not
just because they often see her on television
news reports.
“My dad is a civil engineer and is quite
intrigued with the project,” Second
Lieutenant Bayfield said. “My sister
is studying engineering and so is my
boyfriend – they have lots of questions
and their own ideas about how we can
replace the damaged bridge.”
Once completed, the new 170-metre
Waiho Bridge will be the biggest Bailey
bridge in the country and is believed
to be the largest the Army has helped
build since the Second World War.
“The new bridge has 52 bays over piers,
whereas most of the bridges we do are
10-12 bays without piers, so it’s epic to
be involved in this one,” Second Lieutenant
Bayfield said.
“The Army is used to assembling Bailey
bridges manually. It is hard work but
very rewarding – it’s like putting together
a giant puzzle.”
Second Lieutenant Bayfield enlisted in
the New Zealand Army in January 2017,
after graduating from Mount Albert
Grammar School in Auckland.
In her final year in high school, where
she was a prefect, she attended a twoday
symposium at the Royal New Zealand
Air Force Base Auckland focussing
on women in the NZDF.
“That gave me a bit of exposure to
Army life and I was encouraged to join,”
she said.
Although women engineers are no
longer a rarity, the fact that engineering
is still a male-dominated field does not
faze her.
“I have not encountered any gender
based challenges or stereotypical
views in my time in the Army,” she said.
“The number of women engineers is
definitely growing as perceptions fade
that it is a career only for men.”
AgritechNZ
keen to help
scale up NZ food
production
With the need to feed the world’s
population of 9.8 billion people
by 2050, AgritechNZ is looking at
ways New Zealand can scale up
its food production to meet the
growing global demand.
AgritechNZ chief executive Peter
Wren-Hilton says global food
systems will need to transform
at an unprecedented speed and
scale.
“We are seeking to explore
the power of innovation and
technology to meet the greater
demand on food production,” he
says.
“We also have to take into account
sustainability and climate change;
healthy diets, meat alternatives
and nutrition; market efficiency;
and shaping a national strategy
for the future of food.”
As the Officer in Charge of the New Zealand Defence Force contingent
sent to South Westland, Second Lieutenant Laura Bayfield is leading
the 16 engineers from the New Zealand Army’s 2nd Engineer Regiment
working with the New Zealand Transport Agency and Downer to rebuild
Waiho Bridge.
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