Meet The Speakers and Hosts
Speakers
Dr Eric Crampton is Chief Economist with the New Zealand Initiative. Prior to joining the Initiative in 2014, he served as Senior Lecturer in Economics with the University of Canterbury, where he was based since 2003. Dr Crampton has published several reports with the Initiative, including work on the policy lessons of the Christchurch Earthquakes. He is a regular media commentator, with frequent columns on the economics of housing and housing affordability; his columns appear regularly in the Fairfax newspapers, at Newsroom, and at the National Business Review.
Dr Eric Crampton
Chief Economist at NZ Initiative
Jeff is the Inspections Manager at Auckland Council. He is in his 22nd year at the council, after starting in 1996 at Waitakere City Council, which amalgamated into Auckland Council in 2011. Jeff's busy team of inspectors will carry out approximately 150,000 inspections across Auckland this year. They help out Aucklanders by making sure our buildings are safe and accessible.
Jeff Fahrensohn
Inspections Manager at Auckland City Council
Nick Sterling
Construction Sector Leader from Callaghan Innovations
Sam Archer is a Sustainability Consultant and Mechanical Engineer with over 18 years experience in the Construction Industry. As Director Market Transformation at the New Zealand Green Building Council, he is responsible for running the sustainability and energy assessment tools - Green Star, Homestar and NABERSNZ.
He has a passion for sustainable housing having spent 6 years creating and managing the sustainability framework for a 3000 home development for the University of Cambridge. Sam also has extensive experience in sustainability and energy strategies, including carbon policy work for UK government, sustainable urban design and low energy and passive building design.
Sam Archer
Director Market Transformation at New Zealand Green Building Council
Richard Quin
Group Manager, Sector Impact at Callaghan Innovation
Samantha McNaughton
General Manager Learning Design and Innovation at Competenz
Samantha McNaughton is Competenz's General Manager, Learning Design and Innovation. She and her team work with 38 sectors to develop industry standards, create learning and assessment content and ensure quality outcomes. Samantha has worked in various senior vocational educational roles for almost a decade, with experience in standard and learning resource creation; strategic planning and government partnerships; securing funding grants to enable innovation and strategic stakeholder engagement.
Samantha is passionate about vocational education and raising the profile of workplace learning to support business growth, productivity and sustainability.
Warwick Quinn is the Chief Executive of the BCITO. He is the former Chief Executive of Motor Trade Association and Registered Master Builders Association. He has also held the positions of General Manager Regulatory in Land Information New Zealand and the statutory positions of Valuer-General and Chief Crown Property Officer. He has worked in local authorities, multi-national property companies and banks. A registered valuer by profession, he is a past Chair of the Valuers Registration Board and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Valuers and the Property Institute of NZ. Warwick also holds a MBA from Henley Management College in the UK
Warwick Quinn
Chief Executive at Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation
Guy formed Energy Architecture NZ Ltd in 2013 after returning from five years working in the UK. His ambition is to use his extensive experience in designing for comfort and energy efficiency to help solve long-standing health and performance issues associated with housing and other building types.
Guy volunteers as treasurer for the following organisations:
Passive House Institute NZ (PHINZ), a charitable trust promoting the Passive House Standard.
Air Permeability Testing NZ (APTNZ), an industry body governing testing of building to verify quality.
Guy Shaw
Lecturer
Passive House Institute NZ
Amanda is one of New Zealand's leaders in industry sponsorships and partnerships that are results-oriented and beneficial for all parties. A complex relationship management expert and creative thinker Amanda's background in business allows her to see the big picture, identify and connect with players who can bring it to life with complementary skills, mobilise people with a shared vision, and cultivate networks that make long-term projects succeed.
As Director of Industry Partnerships at the MSD, Amanda currently leads a team that designs and creates initiatives and strategic partnerships with industries and employers with skills and labour shortages. The aim is to create independence through sustainable employment and careers for people across New Zealand.
Amanda Nicolle
Director of Industry Partnerships at the Ministry of Social Development
Patrick leads Kāinga Ora's Construction and Innovation Group, which is responsible for the Crown Entity's delivery of public housing across New Zealand. This includes providing thousands of warm and dry homes a year and reconfiguring and renewing our existing housing portfolio. Patrick's team is actively pursuing innovations, such as the use of offsite manufacturing and standard housing designs, to achieve greater delivery efficiency, and improvements in public housing quality.
Patrick Dougherty
Deputy Chief Executive
from Kāinga Ora
Conrad Lendrum
Materials Scientist from Callaghan Innovation
John leads the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) Building System Performance branch, the government’s lead advisor on the building regulatory system, including the New Zealand Building Code.
John comes from a government legal and regulatory background, and spent five years as the Chief Legal Advisor at the former Department of Building and Housing before moving to a senior management position in another government agency.
John’s team are actively pursuing innovations through the building law reforms, which aim to make the building system more efficient, lift the quality of building work, and provide fairer outcomes if things go wrong.
Included in these changes is a new certification scheme to provide an end-to-end compliance pathway for modular components manufactured offsite. The scheme will integrate with the consent process, ensuring robust quality standards for offsite construction, whilst removing duplication of compliance for repeatable manufacturing processes.
John Sneyd
Leads the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s (MBIE) Building System Performance branch.
I work with national employers to develop employment partnerships to employ and train Work and Income clients in the construction sector. Current partners include Downer, City Care, Fletcher Building, Fulton Hogan, HEB Construction, and Leighton Contractors. We also work with Employers who provide labour hire to these partners and large construction projects. Current focus is on Steel Fixers, Scaffolders and Driver Operators. If you are looking for people with these skills and see an opportunity to partner with us nationally or regionally to develop opportunities for Work and Income clients and job seekers, please contact me 04 917 8167 or email me directly
Jamie Kissock
Account Manager at Ministry of Social Development
Hosts
Guy is a registered architect and a senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington. With over 25 years of experience on a wide range of different projects in both the UK and NZ, he is one-fifth of First Light Studio Ltd, a design-led architectural practice which focuses on compact, sustainable residential and small-scale commercial design.
Wearing his academic hat, he is known as a lecturer genuinely interested in furthering the body of knowledge surrounding architectural construction, urban design and building performance. He constantly questions and publicly challenges the status quo of NZ building rules, standards and construction methodologies, and encourages his students to both fully understand existing technologies and actively explore exciting new technologies.
Guy Marriage
Senior Lectuer at Victoria University and PrefabNZ Board Member
Lauren has a Building Science degree and PhD, and has worked as a project manager in a wide variety of constructin projects - from hotels and schools, to town squares, retail stores, hospitality, heritage restorations and residential projects. Her PhD explored ways to improve homeowners' understanding and engagement with housing-sustainability technologies and practices.
She has a cross-disciplinary knowledge and background in the social, building and environmental sciences with an interest in business, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Lauren helped PrefabNZ set up the HIVE CH, Christchurch's first Home Innovation Village, and has always been supportive of the opportunities prefabrication presents.
Lauren Christie
General Manager at Winton Partners and PrefabNZ Board Member
Wade has been part of the Spanbild prefabrication journey since it began. A vocal advocate for Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA), he led the Versatile team to build more than 70% of their new homes through the 'Rebuild' using Concision panel technology.
Wade is now challenging the broader market with panelisation and volumetric construction in both the residential and commercial sectors. He is a passionate advocate for better, warmer, faster, more environmentally sustainable and affordable buildings.
Wade Macauley
General Manager at Concision and PrefabNZ Deputy Chair
Scott has extensive marketing, commercial and leadership experience in the public, private and NGO sectors and with a number of membership bodies.
Scott's construction experience has been gleaned from both personal and professional interfaces, including time with the Master Plumbers Association. Personal experience has come from numerous renovations, extensions and new builds at a domestic level. As a lay person with an interest in design and construction, Scott is passionate about being part of the PrefabNZ team and playing his part in its successful future and contribution in the construction sector.
Scott Fisher
PrefabNZ CEO
Scott Fisher
Leah is a freelance consultant in the construction industry operating under the brand Entwine. To entwine serves as a metaphor for her mission statement - to weave disparate parties, ideas or knowledge together in order to cultivate a more efficient and effective construction industry.
With both an Architecture degree and an MBA, Leah has provided a variety of services to various parties along the construction supply chain. These have included extensive design management services for main contractors, quality systems analysis for architects, and business consultancy for offsite manufacturers. Specific experience of offsite delivery includes living quarters for oil and gas platforms, mass-produced social housing and unitised panelised commercial facade systems.
Leah Singer
Director at Entwine and
PrefabNZ Board Chair
Toni is a Director at Planalytics, a research and monitoring consultancy based in Greytown, Wairarapa. Originally an urban planner, Toni has extensive experience in the housing and urban development sectors in NZ and abroad.
Toni recently completed research into planning barriers for prefabricated housing and a submission for PrefabNZ on MFE's national housing standards.
Toni brings a practical approach to identifying and overcoming housing policy and delivery challenges and is well connected across the housing spectrum.
Toni Kennerley
Director at Planalytics and PrefabNZ Board member