Spokespeople

Pathmanathan Brabhaharan (Braba)

FEngNZ, FNZSEE, CPEng

Braba has four decades experience in engineering and resilience, including in the UK, and South-Southeast Asia, with a focus on Aotearoa since 1989. His initiatives encompass hazard mapping, understanding built environment resilience, devising mitigation strategies, geotechnical engineering for major projects, and aiding local authorities in hazard management. Braba is actively engaged in disaster recovery, responding to storm events and earthquakes, learning from global earthquake missions, and disseminating knowledge among peers in New Zealand. He recently concluded a five-year MBIE-funded program studying landslides' effects on infrastructure. Currently, he assists Wellington, Bay of Plenty, and Auckland authorities in understanding landslide hazards and formulating planning measures to enhance community -resilience. In 2013, Braba received Engineering New Zealand’s esteemed Freyssinet Award, recognising his exceptional technical contributions to the industry.

Daniel Jardine

CMEngNZ, CPEng, IntPE(NZ)

Daniel has worked nationally and internationally across the construction, telecommunications, and energy sectors. His career has included time spent working in large international engineering consultancies, for a large electricity distribution business, and for the Government within infrastructure regulation here in Aotearoa.

Richard Measures

Since 2011, Richard has worked as an engineer/scientist in the Sediment Processes group at NIWA Christchurch and before that has five years’ experience in flood risk related consultancy. Richard has worked on a range of rivers across New Zealand and has a particular interested in braided rivers. His research and consultancy experience includes flood mapping and forecasting, river/coast interaction, modelling river sediment transport and riverbed evolution, and assessing the impacts of flow regime change on rivers. Richard is the current Chair of the New Zealand Rivers Group.

Greg North

CPEng

Greg is an active member of the fire industry both locally and nationally and regularly presents on fire safety design and construction matters. In 2018 and 2022, Greg won the SFPE (NZ) President's Award for contributions to the New Zealand fire engineering industry. Greg has been the SFPE (NZ) Regional Representative since 2015 and was elected as an Executive Committee member of SFPE (NZ) in 2019.

Ayoub Riman

CMEngNZ (CPEng), IntPE (NZ) , RPEQ (AU)

Ayoub has 20 years of experience in New Zealand, the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. He is passionate about collaboration and innovation in engineering. He is a steering member of the Technical Excellence Group at ENGEO, Wellington and has been heavily involved in the New Zealand Geotechnical Society since 2014.

Matt Mules

Matt is the current Chair of the New Zealand Tunnelling Society and has been a board member for the last 5 years. He has a BE(Civil)/BCom from the University of Canterbury and an MBA from the University of Manchester. Matt also holds a Site Senior Executive certification under the NZ Mining Regulations. Matt has extensive experience in leading tender, preconstruction and construction teams gained over more than 20 years in the construction industry. He has held senior roles on a number of globally significant underground infrastructure projects such as Crossrail in the UK and the Central Interceptor in NZ and in more recent years has focussed on General Management. His specialty areas are in tunnelling, shafts, pipelines and heavy civil engineering - both technical and programme delivery facets. Matt is the General Manager of Oxcon CLL in New Zealand and enjoys making a broad contribution to the construction industry.