| News Release William Pickering
Award for Engineering Leadership 2007
The William Pickering Award for Engineering Leadership is the most prestigious of the individual awards, recognising an engineer who has acted as a role model and exceptional leader. The 2007 recipient is Ian Parton. Ian’s distinguished engineering career has spanned more than 38 years. As Managing Director of Meritec Ltd (formerly Worley Consultants) his leadership and vision transformed a small consultancy into a highly successful international professional engineering services firm. In particular, Ian was the driving force behind the establishment and success of its geotechnical division. Ian has played a pioneering role in exporting engineering services – in 1996, Meritec received a Trade New Zealand Excellence Award as an exporter of services. He also led Trade New Zealand missions to several Asian countries and facilitated others to Eastern Europe. Ian is now a Director on a number of governance boards, including that of Industrial Research Ltd (IRL), VT Fitzroy Ltd, Watercare Services Ltd and HTS-110 Ltd, a technology start-up company commercialising superconductor technology developed by IRL. Ian played a formative role in developing a future vision for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland and chaired its inaugural advisory board. He served for 16½ years as a Trustee of the St Cuthbert’s College Educational Trust and oversaw the planning and construction of major building programmes at the College. Ian’s active involvement in IPENZ culminated in his election to Distinguished Fellow in 2002 and service as President in 2004.
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