Hynds' Best Paper Award Recipient, IPWEAQ NZ

Abstract

Thank you to IPWEA NZ, Hynds and IPWEAQ for sending and hosting me at the IPWEAQ state conference in Brisbane. It was a great conference with a couple of days added on for some R&R with my wife, Sue. I found there to be a great mix of presentations and papers at the conference and it was good to hear what a number of councils and suppliers small and large are up to across Queensland. Keynote speaker, Dr Stephan Hajkowicz from the CSIRO provided a very insightful presentation on global megatrends to open the conference. I was impressed by the presence and involvement of Young IPWEAQ members in the Fireside Chat and also thought the closing session debate ‘women make better engineers than men’ was a good way to round things out